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.
Obesity can plague our livestock just as it plagues us, so here are some of the dangers overweight equines face and what to do about the issue.
We've rounded up 9 lessons for anyone considering adding animals to their farm or just want to make raising livestock a little bit easier!
If you have a herd that likes to "test your fence," you may want to take a look at smart electric fencing, which can monitor and alert you to weaknesses.
