Hog killing and homemade sausage

Keeping your goat herd healthy requires sanity husbandry efforts and diligence. Following proper worming and hoof trimming recommendations is a great start, but only a start, at the practices and routines you must follow to both prevent and detect the first signs of goat disease and illness that can wipe out your herd. A veterinarian will need to be consulted for many major goat diseases, illnesses, and injuries but many issues you can learn to both quickly detect and treat yourself.  Agricu

For the past four years, we’ve considered our farm to be our hobby. We haven’t tried to make any money on the farm, besides selling eggs to people we know here and there, and we sold them cheap – not even close to covering the cost of chicken feed.  Lately, we’ve been considering making the farm work for us. Our pasture is six acres, and the horse and pony we have barely make a dent in trimming the grass, so Chris ends up spending half the spring and summer mowing

Picking show-quality chickens, either to represent your breeder flock or from the sale cages at a show, can be challenging. As always, information is king, so be sure to read up on your prospective breed standards and choose accordingly. Red Flags Aside from reading up on breed standards, there are many red flags you can look for when picking birds. Disqualifications are unilaterally unacceptable traits across show chicken breeds, with few exceptions. Birds that display one of these disquali

The best way to achieve a beautiful and well-maintained lawn is to keep your lawn aerated. Having your lawn aerated will keep your grass looking healthy and free from diseases. In order to do this, you need to know when the best time is to aerate your lawn.  The very best time to aerate your lawn is twice a year just before periods of high growth that is early spring or fall. This is when temperatures are the coolest and the grass can actively grow even after it has been cut. The type of g