The Chicks Next Door farm founder Annie Dye talks about her star rooster, Napolean, and the secret to the irresistible appeal of rainbow eggs.
Looking at four more popular chicken breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Dutch Booted Bantams, Japanese Bantams, Polish and Marans.
Notebooks may be the proven way to track farm data, but you can manage your whole farm right from your phone with handy apps like these!
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.
Continuing with our look at popular breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Araucana, Cochin, Easter Egger and Welsummer chickens.
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!
There's a lot of poultry information out there—not all of it true—so our resident chicken expert is sharing decades of experience about popular chicken breeds.
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.
