Ruminants can be the perfect solution for many farm needs, but choosing which animals to add when is a matter of realizing your land's needs.
As the days begin to shorten, it's time to start thinking about the sheep breeding season all those cute spring lambs frolicking around my pasture.
Cattle need a range of vitamins and minerals, depending on herd-specific factors. Here are some tips for determining your animals' nutritional needs.
In this excerpt from "The Lost Flock," author Jane Cooper recounts adding Boreray sheep to her flock and the resulting first-ever Boreray birth in Orkney.
What happens when a fattened steer is too fat? Learn about some of the health challenges that overweight cattle can suffer from.
Fall is a welcome break from summer's stressful conditions, so seize this opportunity to do some basic flock maintenance on your sheep to get them ready for breeding.
The woolly, low-maintenance Mangalitsa pig provides succulent meat for a small farm. Here's what you need to know to start raising these heritage hogs.
In this ongoing look at the basics of feeding cattle, we turn our attention to energy: what it means, what delivers this component and providing it to your herd.
Katahdins are a resilient native sheep breed that do excellent on pasture, bringing benefits from yard management to meat production, milk and more!
FAMACHA can help you control worms in a sheep flock without overusing medication, and free certification courses ensure you're scoring your animals right.
These Say Cheese contenders include mischievous goats, a diminutive donkey, pretty pigs and more, so check out this photo roundup from Hobby Farms readers!
Grass-finished? Grain-fed? Though there are a lot of confusing terms at play these days, but there's no denying the benefits of raising grass-fed cattle.
