When I first heard about clipped wings my brain went to removing a birds wings. I almost wrote it off as a viable practice until I read about it in Storey’s guide to ducks. For further recommended reading references I am starting to write a homesteading book reference review post! Stay tuned. Turns out clipping […]
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If you are like me, you likely favor things made of metal over plastic. I tend to get more years out of metal products. Why talk about a winter plastic waterer then? I have owned the galvanized steel waterer in the past. We got a couple years out of them before the constant pecking deteriorated
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That dreadful sound in the middle of the night. A morning wake up where your wonderful flock has casualties and feathers spread across the yard. What can be done to provide protection for your poultry from predators? I have read if you keep poultry, then you will eventually lose some to an attack. Though we
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Our family likes to eat meat. Before that yummy meal is on our plate it is a living breathing animal that God created. That means a lot to us. So much that we adopt a policy on our homestead, each animal we raise for food will have only 1 bad day. Many of us have
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