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5 Ways to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden

Crops & Gardening | Large Animals |
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Prevent roaming felines from making your vegetable bed their litter box with this selection of deterrents.

9 Items You Need to Start a Goat Dairy

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Large Animals |
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Scaling up your goat-dairy operation means needing to invest in the proper equipment. Use our guide to help get started.

Convert A Horse Stall Into A Chicken Coop

Animals | Large Animals | Poultry |
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If you have spare room in a horse barn or existing structure, follow these six easy steps to modify it as a happy home for your chickens.

Raise Pigs On Woodlots For Tastier Pork

Animals | Large Animals |
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Woodlot-raised pigs produce meat with unique flavor and help keep the woodland ecosystem in check.

Will My Dog And Chickens Get Along?

Animals | Large Animals | Poultry |
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For your pooch and flock to live together in harmony, you need to know your dog and it’s boundaries.

Baseball Players Honor Dairy Farmers in Cow-Milking Contest

Animals | Large Animals |
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Baseball players go udder to udder in a pregame cow-milking contest.

25 Photos of You and Your Cow

Animals | Large Animals |
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Hobby Farms readers show their appreciation for farm cows by sharing their favorite photos.

5 Farm Chores Your Kids Will Say “Yes!” To

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Large Animals | Poultry |
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Teach your children responsibility and love of the farm by entrusting them with these age-appropriate tasks.

VIDEO: Do You Speak Goat—Or Sheep?

Animals | Large Animals | Video |
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These baby farm animals sure have something to say to their farmers, and that's nothing to baa at.

Surf’s Up for These Urban Goats

Large Animals | Urban Farming |
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Three surfing goats are catching attention—and waves—at Pismo Beach, Calif. Anyone up for a surf lesson?

Helping Sheep Adjust To Life On A New Farm

Animals | Large Animals |
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We have two new sheep on our farm. One is a young ewe named Tansy and the other is her newborn daughter, Pasha. They’re hair sheep—a mixture of Katahdin and Dorper.

7 Ways to Get Your Farm Ready for Baby Goats

Animals | Large Animals |
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The silliest of farm animals, baby goats are worlds of fun to keep—as long as you’re prepared with everything you need to keep them healthy.

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