One thing you don't realize when you bring home farm animals, is how much you'll have to vet them yourselves. You bring home some cute cuddly goats, and you're not thinking about checking their poop for parasites and worming them. You better believe that's what you're going to be doing though. You'll have to research and learn so many things, that you probably didn't want to ...
Goats
Winter is Coming
The busiest seasons on the homestead when you live in a place that actually has 4 seasons will always be spring and fall. Winter is coming, when you homestead that's just as scary of a phrase as it was in Game of Thrones. We might not have white walkers, but we do have a whole lot of stuff to get done before the snow starts flying. We did have snow flurries the other day, but ...
How to buy livestock on Facebook, how to avoid scams
Should I buy livestock from Facebook? Avoiding livestock scams Technically I don't think you're allowed to buy animals from Facebook, but I've lost count how many of our animals have been Facebook impulse purchases. My husband jokes that I can't go on Facebook at night, because that's when I end up deep in Facebook messages making deals for new animals. I might have bought ...
First baby season on the farm
It's the beginning of April and that means it's baby season! This is our very first baby season, and it's an overwhelming amount of emotions. We have baby goats and pigs right now, and it's a whole lot of cute. Our first babies arrived a little over 3 weeks ago, when our Nigerian Dwarf decided to go into labor when we were smack dab in the middle of converting our coop to a ...