I Bought Myself an Incubator
We’re going to start incubating our own eggs again. With the way chick prices have gone up over the years, it just makes sense.
Animal Husbandry Techniques for Homestead Livestock Care
Animal husbandry is an important skill. These articles provide valuable information for raising, caring for, and harvesting different animals.
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Reasons to Use Rotational Grazing on a Homestead
I never really gave pasture management and rotational grazing any thought when we first started raising livestock. You just throw them in a pasture and they’ll eat. The grass will grow back and repeat, right? Same as a lawnmower. (Except you’re new mower doubles as fertilizer.) I’ve spent most of my life living in farm country,…
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How to Dry Up Your Family Cow
Learn how to safely dry up a lactating dairy cow so that she stops producing milk prior to freshening at the birth of her next calf.
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Our First Lambing Season
Whelp, our first lambing season is officially over. It has been an emotional roller coaster ride full of anticipation, anxiety, hope, sadness, and a couple surprises. I started watching for the first lamb a full month before she was even born. We turned the ram in with the ewes and saw him make advances the very…
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How to Improve Your Pasture (For Free)
This second method of hay feeding and manure management is to systematically feed the cows right on the ground. The hay gets spread out in short rows covering strips of ground.
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Your Questions: Can I Own a Dairy Cow (Or Goat) AND Still Have a Life?
We have recently started up a small, raw milk dairy, weaned the calves and have moved to twice a day milking. I am expecting our third child (3 under 4) and was wondering about how I am going to manage to leave our place again. How do you balance being able to go to things…
