These wheat free dog biscuits are a great homemade treat for dogs with sensitive stomachs!
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Do White Leghorns Go Broody?
Do White Leghorns go broody and raise chicks? This breed has been selected for egg production, but some hens revert back to old instincts.
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7 Steps to Get Started with Organic Growing Using Aquaponics
7 Steps to Get Started with Aquaponics Guest Post from Fishkeeping World If you’re interested in growing more of your own food, consider organic growing using aquaponics! Not only can you grow more veggies, but you can add home raised fish to your self-sufficiency plans with an aquaponics system. This…
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How to Harvest and Store Potatoes
Are you wondering how to harvest and store potatoes so they will last all winter? Here are the best methods for harvesting and keeping your spuds...
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How To Harvest And Store Pumpkins And Winter Squash
How To Harvest And Store Pumpkins And Winter Squash Are you wondering how to harvest and store your pumpkins and winter squash to keep them fresh? Over the years I’ve kept a number of different squashes and pumpkins for winter cooking, with varying results. Here are some tips to increase…
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Do Turkeys Eat Weeds & Forage For Free Food?
Do Turkeys Eat Weeds? If you are wondering, ‘Do turkeys eat weeds?’ I’m here to help. Yes! Turkeys do eat weeds! Our young Broadbreasted turkeys (2 1/2 months old) love to forage for wild greens in their pen. I recently increased the size of their pasture so they could graze…
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My ‘Redneck’ Hay Baler
My ‘Redneck’ Hay Baler For Small Batch Hay Many homesteaders face the problem of needing hay to feed their livestock, but not enough land and money to bale their own hay. A tractor, mower, hay baler, wagon…the cost of equipment really adds up. And having enough land for hay fields…
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How to Plant Your Fall Vegetable Garden
How To Plant A Fall Vegetable Garden Probably the last thing on your mind when you’re busy pulling weeds is the task of planting a fall vegetable garden. You can barely keep up with picking and preserving, and now you need to plant too?! I get it, I really do.…
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Outbreak of Newcastle Virus A Threat to Backyard Chickens
Virulent Newcastle Disease Detected in USA Backyard chicken flocks in California recently tested positive for virulent Newcastle Disease (vND). This is the first outbreak of vND in the US since 2002-2003 when more than 3.5 million commercially raised birds were affected. Containing the outbreak cost US tax payers over $180…
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How To Save Money On Chick Starter Feed
How To Save Money On Chick Starter Feed Saving money on chick feed is an important part of raising an efficient flock of laying hens. Are you tired of spending more money feeding your flock than you would spend on eggs at the store? I’ve been there! I took a…
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Bringing Home Turkey Poults
Bringing Home Turkey Poults I ordered 8 Broad Breasted turkey poults this spring and went to pick them up from the farmer in Wisconsin this week. Although I only ordered 8, I came home with 10. Chicken people, you all know how this happens. Am I right?! For more information,…
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How to Harvest and Use Stinging Nettle
How To Harvest & Use Stinging Nettle I remember my Gram telling (little) me that stinging nettle was good to eat. I found it preposterous at the time that this irritating weed could be edible, much less a delicious wild green. After all, in my experience, this plant was the…
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How to Make the Best Hummingbird Nectar
Make your own hummingbird nectar and attract these beautiful birds to your yard and garden!
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How to Harvest and Use Curly Dock
How to Harvest and Use Curly Dock Curly dock (also known as yellow dock, sour dock, and butter dock, as well as other names) is one of the first wild greens ready to harvest in spring. This relative of rhubarb is a hardy herbaceous perennial weed native to Europe that…
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Free Eats ~ Cooking Up Foraged Greens From My Backyard
Cooking Foraged Greens Free Food from My Backyard I don’t have spinach or lettuce ready in my garden yet…heck, the snow just melted last week! But I have weeds and perennial greens coming up in my backyard, free for the picking. This post contains affiliate ads…you will not pay any…
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My Chicks from Sunnyside Hatchery Arrived!
I’m Back in the Chicken ‘Business!’ My homestead really doesn’t seem much like a homestead without some chickens. So I placed an order for 25 chicks from Sunnyside Hatchery in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and waited impatiently. I’ll be honest with you, going almost 9 months without chickens was kind of…