After you’ve settled the great cow vs. goat debate in your mind, you need to begin researching the ins and outs of owning a family cow. There is a TON of information you will need to sift through and learn before you begin. (Unless you want to do it the hard way. Like we did.) Since…
There comes a time in the life of every homesteader when you look at your breakfast plate and you see the homegrown eggs, the garden fresh vegetables, maybe the homegrown bacon, and you start to wonder what life would be like if you had a glass of raw milk from your own cow or goat…
This little fellow is Rusty. He was born out in the pasture after his mom gave no indication that his birth was imminen.
One Year Ago: Meet Holly. You’ll have to excuse her terrified expression. You see, she’s six years old and has never been off the Amish farm where she was born until now. She had just had her first trailer ride and this was probably her first photo session. It took one bag of milk replacer…
One Year Ago: ~2012 Meat Chicken Cost Analysis~ I don’t know if it was because it was almost surreal that we were actually going after all this time, or that my first trimester discomforts and exhaustion seeped well into the second trimester or that orchestrating the moving a large family and homestead across the state is…
How can you tell if your cow is about to give birth? These images show what a cow looks like in the days leading up to calving.