Animal husbandry is an important skill. These articles provide valuable information for raising, caring for, and harvesting different animals.
A lot of people think that raising goats naturally just means substituting herbal remedies for pharmaceuticals. But that’s like assuming that an organic garden just substitutes natural pesticides for chemical ones. It’s reactive rather than proactive. If you do things like that, it might work, but you might also spend all your times trying to…
When we fenced off our side yard and a portion of the backyard, threw a cow and then later her calf on it, and called it “pasture,” we simply let them go at it, wandering and munching on whatever was growing as they chose. It quickly became apparent that although they were surviving, the pasture…
Today I’m sharing a few things that I noticed as the Freedom Rangers continued to grow for anyone who may be contemplating raising them for meat production. The last 12 weeks have been filled with numerous pros and cons and ultimately we aren’t convinced that it is the breed we raised or the method of…
A list of bovine problems that we face on our homestead.
See that little pig?She’s got issues. Every time we’d go outside (which was often, boy the weather last week was spectacular for March!) she’d pace the pen squealing and grunting. I just kept thinking that it was only a matter of time until I had to utilize skills at retrieving an emancipated pig. And I just really…