Farmers and homesteaders alike have a need to protect their livestock from predators. Since there are so many variables to consider–from the type of livestock you have, your property, resources, and the local predators–it can be tough figuring out an effective way to keep your animals safe. To share this image on your site: <p><strong>Please…
It’s never a good day when you’re trying to coordinate laying four children down for their nap at the same time and you finally have them settled enough to where you can read them a chapter from Charlotte’s Web and one says, “O shoot.” It only took a moment after lifting them from the book…
Do you rotate your pigs through the pasture? When you’d like to raise your livestock with minimal or, better yet, no medical intervention, such as antibiotics and wormers, like we do, rotating their living quarters is a really good idea. Not allowing them to live in the same area where they been leaving their bodily…
It would seem that we were needing the excitement of a move that can be described as anything but quiet might provide.
I knew it was coming and yet when this morning dawned I still found myself a bit melancholy as I thought about how it was our last day with these hogs. This year’s pigs were entertaining in an entirely different way than last year’s hog. She kept us on edge constantly wondering when she would…