Animals

This is where you’ll find all things animal-related when it comes to the homesteading lifestyle. Whether you’ve got backyard egg-laying chickens, raising meat birds, milking a dairy cow, or needing to learn how to butcher a pig, this is where you’ll find it!

Best Cow Breed for Milk

Whether making cheese products or raising cows for meat on your family farm, choosing the best cow breed for milk and meat will make a world of difference.

How to Prevent Mastitis in Cows

Learn how to prevent mastitis in cows by understanding the causes of beef and dairy cows and a natural supplement for prevention.

How to Treat Mastitis in Cows Naturally

You can treat mastitis in cows without antibiotics by use of natural, organic ointment methods keeping your beef and dairy herd safe from chronic pain.

How to Butcher a Turkey

Whether you want to field dress a fresh wild turkey or clean, bone, breast and cook your heritage farm raised turkey, learn how to butcher a turkey first.

How to Raise Baby Turkeys (Brooder Stage)

Learn how to raise baby turkeys after they hatch from their egg and are small enough to hold in your hand. They aren’t much different than raising a

ChickShaw – A Mobile Chicken Coop One Person Can Easily Move

Enhance your permaculture approach by using the Justin Rhodes ChickShaw plan. This is the ChickShaw 2.0. Let your chickens thrive.

Raising Meat Chickens

Organic Cornish Cross for your backyard or farm is the best breed to keep your cost low. You can use this guide on raising meat chickens to learn

Chickens in Garden Spaces to Till and Fertilize

When allowed to free range, chickens in garden spaces can give back so much. Learn how to let your small flock keep your vegetable garden tilled and fertilized.

Using Chickens for Garden Pest Control & Disease in Orchards

Learn the best way to use chickens for garden pest control, and also keep your nut and fruit orchard safe with these natural roaming workers.

How to Butcher a Chicken

Learn how to butcher a chicken from beginning to end. Kill, pluck, clean, and skin it with or without expensive equipment. Video included for both methods.

Backyard Chickens – How to Get Started

Learn how you can raise backyard chickens to keep a fresh egg supply, eat their meat, or enter your best chicken in the county fair.

How to Train a Cow to Milk

It’s not as difficult as you may think to learn how to train a cow to milk for the first time. You could have fresh milk for your

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