Archive for the ‘Livestock’ Category
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The Year’s Harvest (2015)
11 Nov 2015It may seem late in the season to be posting about gardening, but due to it being an El Niño…
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Piggies
07 Jul 2015I’ve been totally remiss in posting lately. Not that we haven’t been busy with our garden, animals and plans for…
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Stealing Milk
12 Sep 2013There is no question that owning livestock requires commitment, but the time required to coax a full udder of milk…
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Choosing Chickens
17 Aug 2013While a lot of people are enthusiastic about heritage breeds (that’s what we raise), you have to know that this…
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Raw Milk
10 Aug 2013No to raw milk, period. I absolutely recommend against it, and this is why: you can die. If you’re reading…
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The Smiling House Chicken Ark
03 Aug 2013I’ve seen quite a few designs for chicken arks online and in books and magazines. Some of them are quite…
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Cow Power
02 Aug 2013Many times I have been struggling with some annoying task — like digging up the garden, moving something heavy or…
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Killing Poultry
01 Aug 2013The fact that we love and admire our chickens and turkeys, and often grow to know their adorably weird personalities…