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Sheep & Goats Have Year-Round Small-Farm Value

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Foraging | Large Animals |
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Sheep and goats make excellent livestock for small farms with financial or space limitations, and their products can bring producers some income, too.

Breed Profile: Get To Know Romagnola Cattle

Animals | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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With roots in Italian fieldwork, Romagnola cattle offer today's beef farmer impressive musculature, climate adaptability, maternal capabilities and more.

Can You Identify This Mystery Chicken Breed?

Animals | Breeds | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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This large, white chicken lays brown eggs and has striking features great for showing. Can you guess what it is? Read on for the answer!

Love My Breed: Belted Galloway Cattle

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We asked Hobby Farms readers to tell us what they love about Belted Galloways, a striking, durable and docile cattle breed. Check out what one keeper had to say!

Love My Breed: Get To Know Large Black Pigs

Animals | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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We asked Hobby Farms readers to tell us what they love about Large Blacks, a docile and attentive breed of pig. Check out one keeper had to say!

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!

Breed Profile: Get To Know Jacob Sheep

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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A highly marketable old world breed, Jacob Sheep are known for their soft fleece, ease of lambing, meat quality and more. Learn more about this storied animal.

Breed Profile: Get To Know Adorable Alpacas

Animals | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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Alpacas are calm and quiet animals, making them an ideal livestock choice for many. And these fiber animals don't require large acreage to provide a profit.

4 Chicken Coop Improvements For 2022

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Poultry | Poultry Equipment | Urban Farm |
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The new year is a great time to plan projects for chicken coop improvements that will benefit you and your birds. Here are four I plan to tackle in 2022.

Breed Profile: Onagadori Chickens Are Striking & Super Rare

Animals | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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One of the rarest chicken breeds in existence, the Onagadori is a Japanese chicken with tail feathers that can reach over 20 feet long!

Breed Profile: Get To Know The Australian Shepherd

Animals | Breeds | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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A widely respected stock dog with a reputation for an intense nature, the Australian Shepherd makes a valuable addition to the livestock pasture.

Keep Chickens? Here Are Some Travel Tips To Beat Anxiety

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Poultry | Poultry Equipment | Urban Farm |
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Now that holiday travel is back on the table, you may feel anxiety over leaving your chickens. Here's what I did to stay calm when flying the coop.

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