If you’re interested in producing your own fiber on your farm, whether you plan to use it for spinning or you want to sell it, there’s no better way to do it than to raise your own fiber ...
Choosing the Right Chicken Breed Based on Temperament
Many factors go into choosing the right chicken breed for every flock and its unique dynamics. Picking the best breeds for your own flock will help you to enjoy your chickens and set them up to thrive ...
How to Diagnose and Treat Crop Ailments in Chickens
We all want to raise happy and healthy chickens, don’t we? However, if you’ve been keeping chickens for a while, you know it’s not always easy to keep your flock healthy. Parasites, diseases, and crop ...
Cayuga Duck: Shiny Green Beauties Laying Dark Colored Eggs
In the chicken keeping world, chicken keepers often enjoy expanding their flock for rainbow egg baskets. Who says duck keepers can’t have some fun too? When a Cayuga duck starts laying eggs, the shade ...
How Many Chickens Should You Raise for Eggs
Choosing to get started with a flock of chickens is an exciting decision that will require many follow-up decisions as you figure out the logistics of your impending flock. One of the first ...
5 Benefits of Raising Pigs on Pasture and 8 Tips to Do It Better
Pigs always get the worst rap, don’t they? Ask people who might not be that familiar with raising livestock, and almost always, they’ll tell you that pigs are the smelliest animals. To be ...
10 Uses for Wool Besides Spinning It
On my farm, we raise Icelandic sheep. We raise them primarily to sell and eat the meat ourselves. However, there are plenty of other reasons why people choose Icelandics. Not only can they be ...
Picking the Right Chicken Breed for Your Climate for a Healthy Flock
When we’re ordering chickens, it’s easy to get caught up in choosing the most colorful and exciting breeds without paying attention to practicality. Luckily for me, I live in a fairly temperate ...
Pekin Duck: America’s Most Popular Dual-Purpose Breed
You know those fuzzy little yellow ducklings you see just about everywhere, in calendars and adorable baby animal stock images? Yep, those are usually Pekin ducklings, one of the most readily ...