To help ease your holiday planning, read a few tips--some common sense--and a few uncommon ideas, too.
When you hear the buzzing of bees near your home in spring, you may want to shoo them away. Instead, learn the steps to get visiting bees to set up shop elsewhere.
Read about the contagious disease vesicular stomatits and learn how to protect your herd. Veterinarian Aaron Tangeman explains.
Protect your cows from potential heat stress with an online monitoring service and these tips.
When caring for your a goat you own--or one want to own--here are 15 goat care basic items you need--and 6 plants to avoid.
Responsible livestock owners learn to recognize and care for illness among animals. Here are tips to keeping your animals healthy and your vet bills down.
Understand, prevent and cope with liver flukes in sheep. Learn more from veterinarian Dr. Aaron Tangeman.
Meet the little breed of cattle that can turn big profits for your hobby farm.
Want to keep an unusual meat breed with market potential? Try your hand at raising meat goats—a true farm money maker.
Seems like a simple question; but how DO you figure which farm animal is right for you?
If you’d like to add cattle to your farm, think outside the box--try yaks or water buffalo. No matter where you live in North America, one or both of these interesting, easy-to-raise species is right at home and they’re perfect hobby farm livestock.
