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.
Farm Animals
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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…
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Partners in Homestead Waste Management
Food production on the homestead tends to create a lot of waste. Enlist the help of partners and feed scraps to the animals to reduce costs and shrink your trash pile.
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2013 Homestead Yields & Cost Analysis
It may take a little extra time and effort to track and record what your homestead is producing, but at the end of the year, it is well worth the work when you see just exactly how much food you could grow on your land. I always have found it to be very rewarding in…
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2012 Homestead Yields & Cost Analysis
How much does it cost to homestead? With unexpected expenses and uncertain yields, it’s better to be realistic than optimistic. Here are our yield totals and cost analysis for our 2 ½ acre homestead from 2012.
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2012 Meat Chicken Cost Analysis
Butchering Day (rather days because we broke butchering up over two days this time) was a lot easier than we originally planned for this year. We purchased 150 Freedom Ranger broiler chicks this year and by the time they were ready for the freezer we were down to a mere 53 birds. Yes, that’s right, we lost…
