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Posts Tagged ‘small scale livestock raising’
Catching up out in the barnyard
more updates on raising turkeys and lambs.
Raising Small Livestock: The Devil’s in the Details
A lot of people would like to raise some sort of livestock – whether it’s chickens or pigs or lambs or whatever – but they are stopped by lack of experience and fear. Actually, raising animals is pretty simple (not necessarily easy – which is a whole different deal):
– Make sure they have [...]
Sheep: From the Hooves Up
As Aunt Toby said before, there are a couple of items in terms of raising sheep that if you get them right, everything else pretty much falls into place. One of the most important is keeping hooves trimmed. Years ago, I attended a talk by a ruminant specialist from Cornell, who had done a lot [...]
Want Sheep? Learn This.
So, you are thinking about raising sheep. Or, maybe it’s goats. It’s probably NOT cattle because just the thought of raising a cow or a beef animal is so daunting – we’re talking a creature that ends up weighing almost as much as a small car.
If one of those babies steps on your foot, [...]
Electro-Netting for Sheep
And, I’m back. Sort of. The orthopedist’s visit last week was a success and I’m assigned to start physical therapy tomorrow. I have to admit that I’m not really looking forward to this. It’s going to hurt and there is no way to step around that fact but it’s the only way I’m going to [...]
The Little Red Hen Moves
Far be it from me to make the claim that Aunt Toby and the DH are experts at raising chickens or hatching chickens with a broody hen. Chickens, as I have noted before, are the ‘gateway drug’ of livestock raising: as long as you can keep them save, fed and watered, you are good [...]
Well, let’s not brood about it
We have a hen that has gone broody so we’re allowing her to do what is coming naturally – sit on and hatch out eggs.
No chix-sicles at Chez Siberia
Time to move the chickens inside for the winter from their outdoor pasture traveling pens.
Is There a Coffee Table Book in Aunty Toby’s Future?
Amazing civil engineering bahavior in chickens.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
