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3 Non-Lethal Ways to Protect Your Livestock from Predators
Losing your livestock to predators is expensive, frustrating, and flat out heartbreaking — and protecting them isn’t always the easiest of tasks. While you may be tempted to break out your shotgun,...
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Goat Milk or Cow Milk: Which Should You Produce?
Are you interested in producing your own dairy – cow or goat milk, yogurt, cheese and more? A dairy animal can be a great investment, but which one should you choose? Will a cow be better for...
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Chicken House: Coop Cleaning with Kids
You know it’s time. As the weather starts to warm after the chill of winter, the chicken house once again becomes a presence for your olfactory senses. Plus, your children are restless to get outside...
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Vermicomposting Q&A with Homestead Chronicles
We’ve been kicking around the idea of vermicomposting lately but we really didn’t know anything about it so we asked our friend Jo at Homestead Chronicles to help us out with a Q & A session on the...
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How to Prepare for Baby Goats
Here’s an oldie but a goodie from our archives, re-released in celebration of “30 Ways of Homesteading” – see below for more information. In all honesty, I should have entitled this “How to totally...
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Diatomaceous Earth: A Must for Chick Care
Have you ever heard of Diatomaceous Earth, or D.E.? If you’ve got baby chicks, ducks, turkeys or even kittens, you may want to check out this completely natural pest control. Chick Care and...
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Chickens for Sale – Help!
You can’t help yourself anymore – the signs are everywhere! You keep checking out chicken books from the library and reading them instead of sleeping at night. Instead of picking out curtain colors,...
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Dairy Goats: Cost Effective?
Have you wondered about having your own quality dairy in your backyard? Thinking about goats? Worried about the expense and wondering if this backyard dairy adventure will really save you money?...
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Natural Goat Milk and More!
Have you been thinking of getting goats because you want fresh, clean milk? Concerned about all the commercial products and conventional handling practices many goat resources recommend? Never fear!...
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Canned Meat: Making the Most of Your Homestead Chicken
Are you wondering how best to nourish your flock so they can, in turn, nourish you? Have you raised up a nice batch of fryers and are ready to butcher them, but are wondering how you’re going to...
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