Mom sent in the manuscript for her sheep book the day before yesterday. Now she isn’t as grouchy and harried. In fact, she’s been telling us some of the things she wrote about, including a sheep named Private Derby.
Although now a controlled livestock disease, Brucellosis can cause problems for hobby-farm herds if carried by wildlife.
When adopting a feral Mustang horse, hoof care needs to be a priority.
Take precautions in the winter to prevent these signs of frostbite in your chickens.
If your kid goat is displaying bowed legs and other skeletal problems, a simple splint could do the trick.
When I told Ishtar, our donkey, that I wrote about Feyza and livestock guardian dogs in my blog, she tossed her head and said, "Humph, donkeys guard, too!” Uzzi and I looked at each other. Ishtar hangs out with the horses and sometimes even chases the sheep.
Nine years ago, when Mom and Dad bought this farm, some new friends gave them a box of guinea keets. Mom and Dad raised them in a brooder in the house. When they got old enough to come outdoors, Dad made them a coop and a covered guinea-fowl yard.
Last week, when I wrote about our livestock guardian dog, Feyza, David from Omaha left a nice comment about general purpose farm dogs. (Thank you, David.) We have one of those, too. His name is Steve.
Chicken enthusiasts will want to view the feature-length documentary giving an inside look to the resurgence of backyard chicken keeping and one city’s struggle to keep chickens legally.
When your hen’s egg-producing days are done, send her off humanely with one last meal.
You know how much we goats love yummy acorns, but did you know oak leaves are us goats’ favorite summer treat? That worried Mom for a long time because many toxic-plant lists say oak is poisonous.
A sad thing happened to one of Mom’s friends this week. Her sweet, orphan bottle lamb was attacked by her neighbor’s dogs and killed. That’s a shepherd’s worst nightmare. And dogs can kill other livestock, too.
