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Illness in Your Livestock

Illness in Your Livestock

Illness and disease in animals can be very serious. If you keep animals on your small farm or homestead, you are responsible for keeping them well, both for their sake and your family’s. Your animals are a part of your ...

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Preparing Your Puppy for Perfect Herding

Preparing Your Puppy for Perfect Herding

When you choose to go off the grid, you will find out very quickly that you cannot go at it alone. Most people who decide to pursue this lifestyle realize immediately that they will need the help of animals. Chickens ...

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What to Expect When Your Livestock are Expecting

What to Expect When Your Livestock are Expecting

Raising animals is an important aspect being self-sufficient. In order to cease reliance on outside sources of food, you need to have domestic animals. People have survived for thousands of years by taking advantage of animals, both wild and domesticated. ...

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Protect Your Perimeter with Llamas

Protect Your Perimeter with Llamas

Living off the grid typically includes taking advantage of the benefits of animals. Maybe you have goats for milk and grass maintenance, sheep for wool and meat, or chickens for eggs. Whatever kind of animals you keep, they are probably ...

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Family Dogs vs. Farm Dogs: What Breeds Make the Best Livestock Helpers

Family Dogs vs. Farm Dogs: What Breeds Make the Best Livestock Helpers

If you have livestock, they are at constant risk when you are not around. That’s just a fact. The animals we raise for our own meat are also high on the list of predator’s meal selections. They are prey animals by nature and not very good at fighting off the attacks of predatory animals. In the wild, the best defense a prey animal has against its attackers is flight, but we take the ability to run away from them when we put them behind fences.

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