Do you feed your chickens layer feed? Have you ever scoffed at how much money you pay per bag? Or do you wish there was a way to keep your chickens’ diet a little more natural without giving up egg ...
15 Essential Beekeeping Equipment Every Beekeeper Can’t Live Without
If you're considering getting into beekeeping, you first need to know whether you can meet the requirement to keep bees at your property. The next step is figuring out the equipment you will need. ...
Rabbit Care Guide: 10 Tips to Care for Your Backyard Meat Rabbits
It was a cold fall evening, and I saw his headlights cut up the driveway through the dark night. I found my heart beating quite rapidly because I was unsure of what to expect. Then he stepped out of ...
Identifying 14 Common Chicken Predators (and How to Protect Them)
Do you worry about losing your chickens to predators? Well, I didn’t until recently. We have been very fortunate to have very few chicken predators around our area. However, suddenly they are ...
How to Clean Your Chicken Coop & Run: 9 Tips to Do It Right
“A place for everything and everything in its place.” — Unknown Does this sound familiar? It is a quote that says that everything should have a place to be stored and when not in use it should ...
Tanning Rabbit Hides: Easy Guide to Skin a Rabbit and Tan the Hide
Though many people keep them as house bunnies (or pets), rabbits also make great livestock. Rabbits are small meat sources that provide quite a bit of protein yet they don’t take up much space. But ...
10 Highly-Productive Animals to Raise for Dairy (Other Than Milk Cow)
When I first began homesteading I had all of these thoughts of milking daily and making my own cheese. I do these things, just not in the way I had imagined. You see, I thought if I ever lived this ...
Goat Pregnancy & Birth: All You Need to Know About Goat Kidding
Do you remember the first time you held your child? Oh, I do! He was 9 pounds 11-ounces at 3 weeks early, had a full head of red hair, and was the most precious little thing I have ever seen. As you ...
How to Butcher a Chicken: 7 Steps to Humanely Kill, Pluck, and Clean Your Chickens
Do you have certain chores you do every fall that you like better than others? Well, I have a certain chore I must do every fall that I don’t enjoy but it is a necessity none the less. That chore is ...