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Taking care of livestock and poultry during warm weather is hard enough, but when frigid weather hits, it can be downright difficult. Yet if you know what you’re doing, your livestock can survive and even thrive during winter weather. This ...

Are you ready to feed your family by what you grow and raise? If you want to reduce your dependency on the commercial food supply, you better start now. It is important to develop a functional homestead capable of producing ...

For most homesteaders, having poultry is an important part of the lifestyle. We’ve all read the magazine articles about preserving our heritage poultry, and so we bring home flocks of gorgeous Rhode Island Reds and Welsh Harlequin ducks, trios of ...

  When it comes to housing poultry, your options are truly limited only by your imagination. Most poultry, chickens especially, are hardy and readily adapt to a variety of housing setups. All coops will fall into two major categories: the ...

Keeping your backyard flock happy is pretty simple and is the best way to ensure a plentiful supply of nutrient-rich eggs and plump meat chickens. Some homesteaders are choosing to grow their own poultry feed in order to cut down ...

  The ancient Egyptians and Chinese are credited with inventing the first egg incubators, but it wasn’t until the late 1800s that the first commercial incubators were used. Thus began the earnest attempt by poultry breeders to reduce the hen’s ...

Do you know where your food comes from? Unless you raise what goes on the dinner plate yourself, the answer to that question will likely be shocking. The USDA will soon permit chickens raised in America to be sent to ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is increasing the chances of poultry contamination by speeding up its inspection process and poultry production lines. That’s the opinion of a veteran USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspector who worked ...

Raising poultry is hard enough work, but West Virginia farmer Lois Alt has been battling not only the weather lately but also the EPA – and she’s winning. The EPA is threatening to fine Alt $37,500 each time it rains. ...

All chickens will be raised indoors, if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its way. The federal agency is now targeting pastured poultry, free-range chickens — and even the eggs the hens produce. Owners of small farms seem ...