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How To Find & Purchase Spring Piglets

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Spring is the right time to find baby piglets for the homestead! Here are some tips for locating young pigs and setting pricing expectations.

Follow The Farmer-ish Journey Of Chick Outta Water

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Susan from the Michigan-based Chick Outta Water tells us about warding off hawks, battling coyotes and coming up with food-based chick names.

When Avian Influenza Affects Your Community

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is on the move in the U.S., so chicken-keepers should stay vigilant and informed. Here's what to know.

Love My Breed: Get To Know Pygmy Goats

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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We asked Hobby Farms readers to tell us what they love about keeping pygmy goats, a tiny but mighty breed. Check out what they had to say!

Did My Informal Lambing Calculator Backfire This Year?

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Using a lambing calculator can help you better predict when ewes deliver spring lambs—and when you need to have supplies ready to care for the newborns.

Rescue Animals Get Goofy Down At Spoiled Rotten Ranch

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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Amber from the California-based Spoiled Rotten Ranch talks about her resident barnyard jokers and how crows help keep things running safely.

From Field to Tree: How To Make A Gourd Birdhouse

Animals | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Projects |
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You can attract purple martins, swallows and more with simple, homegrown birdhouses. Here's how to craft your own gourd birdhouse.

Tips For Buying Hatching Eggs On Ebay

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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Buying hatching eggs from Ebay is a great option for building your flock. Jake from White House on the Hill shares his advice.

Rumen Woes? A Fistulated Cow Can Help

Animals | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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When a cow gets sick, so can its rumen. But a transplant from a fistulated cow—with a surgically implanted access portal—can help.

What To Look For When Buying A Bull

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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Buying a bull for a cattle herd can be daunting, but look for these traits when you open a catalog and be ready when you head to the sale.

Pursuing A (Literal) Dream Of Living The Farming Life

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Flock Talk | Homesteading | Large Animals | Poultry |
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Instead of plowing through work, Dave and Anna Pié (and their three small children) took up the yoke to seed a new life farming in Eastern Ohio.

Bennie Family Farm Creates Community Safe Spaces

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Jessica Bennie from the British Columbia-based indigenous establishment Bennie Family Farm tells us about farming's therapeutic power.

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