More than just living lawn ornaments, Texas Longhorn cattle bring a variety of virtues and products to the pasture (and they look amazing, too).
Dennita Miskimen of Virginia-based agriculture venture The Red Barn Farm tells us about the importance of eggs and fostering community.
It's exciting to see your chicks hatch from their eggs, but keep an eye on your new little birds for these common conditions, some of which can prove fatal.
In a perfect world, your neighbors would fall in love with your backyard chickens. But when disapproving residents raise a ruckus, you need to do these things.
Over the past 20 years, alternative therapies like chiropractic care, acupuncture and more have become mainstream, benefiting animals everywhere.
Raising lambs is an undeniably joyful endeavor, but the reality of death on a farm can introduce sorrow into the experience.
Christie Birchfield from the Georgia-based Birchie's Hobby Farm tells us about learning beneficial life lessons from gardening and her Crested Cream Legbar chickens.
You want backyard chickens, but are your neighbors on board with the idea? Here are some ways to help them get (and stay) positive about domestic poultry.
Chicken chatter? Wattle wooing? Spontaneous sex reversal? We rounded up even more fascinating facts about everyone's favorite barnyard fowl.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, this California family invited four chickens into their life. They quickly grew to love the birds, who helped them through unprecedented times.
There are numerous reasons to put cattle on pasture, from ease of management to animal health. Here are some things to remember when it comes to pasture grass.
DIY is all the rage, extending to citizen and community science projects. And if you try to breed a better bird, you're doing some backyard biohacking, too.
