Tag: livestock
Chickens are the Easiest Livestock to Raise
If you just started homesteading, no doubt you are wondering what kind of livestock you should raise. Although they are small, chickens are arguably...
How to Make Black Walnut Tincture for Worming Chickens and Livestock
This past week I wormed my chicken flock with black walnut tincture. Here’s why. A few days before I saw what was undoubtedly a...
How to Make an A-Frame Chicken Coop
In my excitement to get baby chicks, I forgot they grew like weeds and would quickly outgrow their brooder box! There wasn’t enough room...
Tips BEFORE You Get New Chicks
Bringing baby chicks home for the first time is like Christmas morning for us homesteaders! There’s nothing cuter, fluffier, or funnier than new baby...
Homesteads and Horses: What to Know
Horses bring a variety of benefits to homesteads, whether by plowing fields or by providing compost for gardens or farmland. If you’re considering a...
How to Make Homemade Anti-Parasitic Tincture for Livestock
Parasites and worms on your farm and homestead are one of the top leading causes of livestock death. But thankfully we can make a...
17 Survival Uses for Safety Pins
Did you know that before the Winchester repeating rifle was invented, Walter Hunt patented the “combined piston breech and firing cock repeating gun”?
Not only...
The Power of Persimmon
Persimmons can persists after the leaves drop making them easy to spot.
Persimmons: Pure Pucker Power
About the only bad thing you can say about a...
How to Sleep Dry While Camping in the Rain
Here you can see the ditch going around the tent.
It has been raining hard on and off for the last several days. This resulted...
