If you don’t want to buy supermarket eggs during the times of year your hens stop or decrease laying, use any of these techniques to preserve your eggs.

Before hybrid broilers and superlayers, authors of poultry books in the early 1900s recommended some chicken breeds that are still prevalent today.

What and how to feed sheep is important, but minerals and copper also play crucial roles. Here are the key aspects of what you need to know.

You can have homegrown milk, cheese and yogurt in many varieties with suitable small-farm dairy cattle, goat and sheep breeds. Here are the basics on the animals and milking.

If you love tasty milk as well as incredible homemade cheese and yogurt, consider getting dairy ewes. Here are things to consider before you buy.

Books from a century ago advocate feeding chickens modern-day favorites such as greens, grains, hard-boiled eggs and table scraps.

Goats have complex systems and can be quite finicky eaters. Here are basic things to consider for what, when and how to feed goats.

It turns out that a lot what authors advocated in the early 20th century, when many Americans kept backyard chickens, still holds true today.

Incubators were all the rage in the early 20th century, but plenty of advice also existed on incubation and hatching via broodies.

When you need to catch one of your birds that is set on getting away from you, use one of these approaches.