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Livestock & Critters

Category: Livestock & Critters

probiotic frozen yogurt dog treat with black lab

Probiotic Frozen Yogurt Dog Treats — 3 Nourishing Flavors!

Healthy meat processing is kind to the animals and produces the best tasting meat! Watch, listen, or read for the best way to slaughter and butcher meat -- whether you're sourcing your meat from a local farm or doing the processing yourself! | AskWardee.tv

Healthy Meat Processing — The Best Way To Slaughter & Butcher Meat #AskWardee 084

6 Winter Care Tips for Chickens

6 Winter Care Tips for Chickens

Confession: Until recently, we tended to our brooding chicks in our home office. We spend most of our time in this room anyway, and it's so fun to watch them while we're working! Then I discovered that it is possible to brood chicks outside, and it's a win-win for us and the chicks!

How to Brood Chicks Outside

You hear it again and again in homesteading circles... Loss is inevitable. And that makes caring for any living thing emotionally challenging. Can these hard times teach us anything? Difficult as it is, the answer is yes.

5 Lessons from Loss on the Homestead

I was somewhat idealistic about raising chickens... I envisioned going to the chicken yard in a pretty apron, grabbing a good-sized chicken, swiftly processing it on a chopping block, taking it to the kitchen, and serving a gorgeous roast chicken a few short hours later. Then expectation met reality...

Meat Birds: Heritage vs. Hybrid {What You Need To Know}

It's just a fact of life... Odds and ends, junk piles, dirt piles, you name it. Any homesteader would agree, because gardening, caring for livestock, and living on a shoestring doesn't always allow for the minimalist approach! Here are 14 inexpensive (or free) items I always keep around...

Don’t Throw That Away! 14 Useful Items to Repurpose or Purchase Inexpensively

One of the joys of keeping chickens is raising chicks, and not much is more exciting than seeing a mother hen raise her own baby chicks! Hatching fertile eggs was more of a long range goal on our part, but our hens had other plans. Our first natural hatch happened by accident.

Our First Natural Hatch

When we first got chickens, I thought chicken feed was one-size-fits-all. I thought I could just go to the store and purchase "chicken feed". I soon learned differently. What you feed your birds directly depends on their purpose and how you're raising them. Feeding your chickens... this is what I've learned.

Feeding Your Chickens

Keeping Your Chickens Cool During the Summer Heat | Not only does weather wreak havoc on the garden and landscape, it takes its toll on pets and homestead critters such as chickens. During the summer, keeping our chickens cool is a very active part of our daily routine. Here are a few things that we have found to be helpful, as well as some additional suggestions I’ve gathered from my fellow chicken-keeping friends. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Keeping Your Chickens Cool During the Summer Heat

Housing for Your Chickens | If you've gone "coop shopping" or spent hours browsing chicken coops on Pinterest like I have, you know that chicken housing can be as simple as a reclaimed child’s playhouse or as elaborate as a small mobile home. It all depends on your goals and the time and resources you are willing to invest in the project. Here are the most important things we've learned about chicken coops over the years. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Housing For Your Chickens

Gardening for Butterflies

Gardening for Butterflies

How Homesteading is a Leap of Faith | Three years ago we moved to the country with little, if any, experience in country living. While our country home was being built, we spent a significant amount of time reading up on necessary skills. Months later, when the moving van pulled into the gravel driveway, we thought we knew what lay ahead. We had no idea. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homesteading is a Leap of Faith

Raw Milk Q&A | Switching to raw milk is a good starting place for many newly health-conscious families. I went to one raw milk-producing family farm, Fall Creek Farms in TN, to ask important questions: Is it safe? Is it from a good source? How long does it last? Why is it more expensive? and more! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Raw Milk Q & A

To Keep or Not to Keep... a Rooster | While doing our research on chickens, we heard a number of both good and bad things about roosters. In the end, the good outweighed the bad... and we decided to give a rooster a chance. After nearly a year now, with not just one, but three roosters, here is our take on keeping a male bird. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

To Keep or Not To Keep… a Rooster

Unless you are a chicken operating on natural instinct, hatching is not as easy as it sounds. It requires some skill, know-how, and intuition. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Chicks! Our First Hatch

My interest in chickens has grown ever since we started our flock two years ago with eight Rhode Island Red pullets. I recently told my husband that I would love to start raising them with an interest in preserving them. He responded with the gift of an incubator so I could hatch my own. Here are a few things we learned when choosing our incubator, and a few things you might want to consider. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Choose an Incubator

Caring For Bucks (and their wether companions)

Caring For Bucks (and their wether companions)