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Cool & Easy Tips to Care for Your Animals

16 ‘Cool’ & Easy Tips to Care for Animals

Are you hot yet? If you are, then your animals are probably hotter. Most animals have fur or feathers, so it is almost the sameRead More →

In: Homesteading, Animals

A Hostile Transfer

Please join me in welcoming my guest writer. Bob was the Flock Manager for the Silver-Orp Division of Casa Smith-Coushatta, until a recent hostile transferRead More →

In: Chickens

Fresh Milk, Anyone?

One of the blessings of having a Jersey in your herd is all of that wonderful fresh milk. One of the curses of having aRead More →

In: Simple Life, Animals, Cows

Learn 7 Important Life Lessons from the Chickens

Life Lessons from the Chickens is a daily occurrence on a farm. If you are brave enough to go to class, there is no tellingRead More →

In: Chickens

What Happens at George’s

“What happens at George’s, STAYS at George’s!” – The Paradise Plantation Bovine Initiative A Bovine Vacation A little over a month ago, myRead More →

In: Cows

My Chicks need Dramamine

Small farmers usually don’t have one area of expertise. They have their hands in many dirt piles. From compost bins and gardening to livestockRead More →

In: Chickens

When it rains…it pours!

One of the most fun and blessed events around here is when a new calf joins the farm. A major portion of our farmRead More →

In: Cows

The Song of my People

I am not so sure if this go ‘round I purchased chickens, or provided training facilities to some sort of Gallus gallus domesticusRead More →

In: Chickens

Group ‘Hug’!

Any aspect of farming you undertake always begins with some form of education. Often, it is through books or websites. Sometimes you have aRead More →

In: Bees