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Dave and Sky Brown’s dream of having an urban farm has turned into a nightmare. Detroit police and animal control officers seized their three pygmy goats and six chickens last month, and the couple does not know where the animals ...

If you love milk and dairy, keeping goats on your homestead can provide you and your family the self-sufficiency you desire. Although dairy goats provide less milk than cows, they’re a lot cheaper and require much less space, feed and ...

Adding goats to your homestead has many benefits, including milk, meat and rearing baby goats for sale. But if you have ever heard that goats are easy keepers and you won’t have to worry about anything, you may not have ...

I love milk. Chocolate milkshakes, ice cream, lasagna, pizza … the list goes on and on of foods I enjoy that contain milk. But milk does not love me. And I’m not the only one. More and more people are ...

To hear someone on You Tube testify that he was cured of cancer after taking milk colostrum made my ears prick. Colostrum? A cancer cure? I was more than interested. As somebody who raises goats, we have plenty of goat ...

Natural healthcare offers a somewhat different approach to animal health than does the medical world. Instead of waiting for a symptom to develop, signaling a disease or illness, natural healthcare works to prevent the occurrence of problems by supporting good ...

As we discussed in the last article, foraging is a useful skill and a fulfilling hobby. Foraging is a wonderful excuse to spend time with the kids or to take a quiet walk in the woods. At the same time, ...

One of the cornerstones of any self-sufficient homestead is the ability to produce dairy products. Dairy products are a valuable source of essential fats, carbs, proteins, vitamins and minerals – including riboflavin, vitamin B12, magnesium and potassium. Unlike fortified and ...

While most people in the Western hemisphere are brought up thinking of milk as a cow product, in much of the world, goats are the primary source of milk. For a smaller homestead, goats make perfect sense. They take up ...

Installing safe, escape-proof goat fencing can be a big hurdle to overcome and should be one of the first steps to complete before bringing goats to the homestead. When I first got my three Nubian does, I thought that a ...