Getting ready to process your first animals you raised for your families consumption? Wonder if you have everything to get the processing job done in a timely fashion? Watched videos online or researched equipment which seems expensive for your 10 birds? Here are the items we have invested in that reduced our time while also […]
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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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How to make your turkey shelter easy and not break the bank on current lumber prices! Build your turkeys this quick and easy turkey shelter. We have taken to call it the turkey covered wagon to protect from the elements while ranging in your field. Our turkeys are inside a premier 1 electric poultry fence
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The short answer… yes electric poultry netting does work. I have been shocked many times! Why would you consider an electrified moveable fence? Does the fence protect from predators? Do the birds stay in? Energizer options are confusing? What does a grounding rod do? How do I make the moves? In this post I will answer
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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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