Goat Husbandry: Lesson Two
This lesson you won’t find in the goat “How To” books. This lesson gets learned the hard way or at least so I’ve been told by a goat owner friend of mine. Goats are addictive. Plain and simple. But…
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Farm Players
Goat Husbandry: Lesson One
You saw that correctly….. that’s a goat….in a tree. Because when you think of goats …you generally imagine them in a tree, right?? Yeah… me too. When I tell you that I was prepared for pretty much anything when we…
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I’ll Never Own Goats…
….That’s what I’ve said for the last seven years since I decided I loved all things homestead. Well, all things “except” goats. Four years ago when I took care of our neighbors’ large dairy goats for three weeks, it only…
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Fuzzy Buns Galore
I know this may come as a complete shock but……………I got baby chicks. And lots of them. Two roosters, Elvis and Texas, and 22 hens. Eeeeekkk! The look on Logan’s face of sheer joy and happiness pretty much mirrors my…
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I NEED Chickens…
…Like yesterday. It’s been a year since we butchered our free range chickens after many attempts to save them from coyotes. No matter what we did, we just couldn’t take the free range out of the birds. So the decision…
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I Dream Of Bovine
Yes, those are cows out my car window. We live in the country but still….cows wandering the roads freely isn’t exactly normalcy. But dreaming about them……totally normal for any up and coming homesteader. Promise. For three years I have wanted…
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Parvo Puppies
Two words I wish never had to exist in the same sentence. Ugh. For those of you that do not know what parvo is, the basic definition is a virus in the lining of your puppies intestines. Doesn’t sound so…
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Livestock Guardian Dogs…Or Something Like That
For about a year Chad and I have thrown around the idea of getting a new dog so that our older pup Roxy, a Labrador, could train them to….you know….not kill chickens. It may come as a surprise, but 9…
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We Need A Chicken Coop….Yesterday
As with every thing in my life…I wait till the last minute. Oh, it’s 6pm and there are whimpering children with hunger pains…I should probably figure out what is actually for dinner. Or, Logan turned a year old two months…
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Lessons In Organic Feed
No matter how you slice it, organic feed can cost a small fortune. Hopefully I can save you from spending $80 per 50lbs like I did my first time around. I now pay less than half that. Thank you Lord. …
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