If you have livestock, your barn is the core of your farm. Not only is it where your animals sleep at night, but it’s likely also an integral component of your farm’s management, serving as the ...
Lambing Preparation: How to Be Ready for the Birth of Your Lamb
If you’re like most homesteaders, you probably have a great deal of anxiety about the unknown. There is perhaps no time where that is truer than when you are preparing for lambing on the ...
What to Consider When Raising Sheep and Goats Together
Whether you’ve just begun raising animals on your small farm or you’ve been doing it for some time, you may ask yourself whether certain species of animals can be housed and raised ...
The Pros and Cons of Keeping a Rooster in Your Flock
Are you thinking about adding a rooster to your backyard flock? Ask any homesteader his or her opinion on the usefulness of roosters, and you’re likely to get a mixed response. Many people ...
The 10 Best Draft Horse Breeds to Help You on the Homestead
Before monikers like John Deere, Kubota, and New Holland were household names, every small and large farm alike was familiar with a different set of names. Belgian, Percheron, Clydesdale, ...
How to Ferment Chicken Feed to Save Money and Improve Egg Production
Whether you are trying to save some money on your homestead or you simply want to boost the health of your backyard chicken flock, if you ferment your chicken feed is a great place to score on both. ...
Pecking Order: How to Manage Chicken Bullying in Your Flock
Raising chickens is a lot like raising children. It’s not enough to simply remember to feed them and provide them with plenty of water - you also need to go out of your way to provide a nurturing ...
Why You Should Raise Heritage Breed Pigs – and 10 Breeds to Consider
When it comes to selecting the best animals for your homestead, choosing the right breed of a given type of livestock is often more important than the type of livestock itself. When you’re selecting ...
10 Clever Uses for Discarded Sourdough Starter
Look at any package of store-bought bread and you’re likely to turn up your nose in disgust after reading the ingredients. From artificial flavors to preservatives you can’t pronounce, there are a lot ...