A chicken garden is a great way to supplement your chickens’ diets and keep them busy. If you have issues with your chooks scratching your garden into oblivion, then they need their own garden. ...
Bronze Turkey: The Domesticated Wild Turkey
This is a fun turkey variety, a close descendant to the Eastern Wild turkey. Well suited for free-ranging and open farms, a homesteader with space would love the addition of Bronze Turkeys to their ...
What NOT to Feed Chickens: 9 Food Your Chickens Shouldn’t Eat
One of the most entertaining things about owning chickens is watching them gobble down a new treat. It's fun to give your flock table scraps or garden clippings, and for the most part, chickens have ...
Black Bengal Goat: Breed Info, Characteristics, Breeding, and Care
The Black Bengal goat is a meat goat breed all the way from Bangladesh. They have been studied from Asia to Pennsylvania for their efficiency, parasite resistance, and high fertility rate. This ...
Penedesenca Chicken: Spanish, Dark Brown Egg Layers
Penedesenca Chickens are small and active birds that are well suited for farms where they can range far and wide. Penedesencas also have a high tolerance to heat due to their Spanish origins, so ...
Typical Goat External Parasites and How To Treat Them
Many homesteaders know that goats bust the myth that they are pesty critters causing annoyance and trouble. However, while goats are endearing, loving, social creatures they can bring pests - pests ...
Black Turkey: Small Farm Meat Producers
Black Turkeys have been used in the breeding of many varieties of other turkeys. However, the original Black Turkey breeding standards have not been upheld over years of breeding and are rapidly ...
Boer Goat: Breed Info, Characteristics, Breeding, and Care
Do you want to produce your own meat? Homegrown meat is a great way to be independent of the supermarket and self-sufficient. Boer Goats is an attractive meat goat breed option for homesteaders ...
The Life Cycle Of Goat Internal Parasites And How to Prevent Them
Few things bring more satisfaction to a homesteader than seeing their sleek, contented herd of happy goats on a bright summer's day. Yet 12 years ago, most of our summer days right into winter were ...