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Celebrate Christmas with a gift guide for practical people, a vet’s guide to livestock care in the festive season, property in Lancashire, what you want from a workshop, smallholding club news, make soothing lotions from your bees wax, money saving vet advice on zoonoses and meet the alpaca vet, plus making the final choice of sheep breed for your smallholding. Practical Poultry, how to keep yourself updated on the avian flu controls, meet the three French hens, winter hen care and do hens need herbs? Four pages of your questions answered; new! Your smallholding club pages; plus free classifieds ads and much more smallholding know how.