Recent content by emmapal

We sold our farm and retired early on our rental income. Traveling full time in an RV, watching our favorite herders on YouTube, planning our next destination and next homestead, and raising investor capital for real estate. Currently in Texas and headed to Salt Lake this summer. Not sure where...

This is embarrassing, but we have been looking on our local Craigslist for 2 months to buy a llama with no success. There are few postings, and no one I've emailed about their animals has even replied. I don't know anyone who keeps llamas, and prefer not to use livestock auctions, so what...

Dunks, are those the little mosquito donuts? Do you put them in the watering bucket, or in the large drum? My husband suggested inoculating the 55-gal barrel with a 1/4c. or so of bleach. Do you measure, or just splash some in? We had a good freeze 2 nights in a row this week, so for now the...

We installed an automatic waterer last month which is working great, but it always has mosquito nymphs in it. The bucket is about 2 gallons attached to a sealed 50 gallon barrel. I found mosquitoes very annoying when I was sitting in the pasture near the waterer recently. In a stock tank, I...

this rainy overcast time of year is when I treat my chickens for lice, so is it the same for goats? What conditions usually favor lice, meaning, when should I be checking them most frequently/thoroughly?

I buy Adam's Plus at Tractor Supply, but read the active ingredients as the last one I bought is something other than pyrethrum. You can google pyrethrum and find lots of organic-approved sprays from gardening supply, etc...

I am new here and need some advice on llamas. We are near Austin, TX and have 4 goats (about six months ago), a pyr LGD, and 30 chickens in 1/4 acre pen right now that we are getting used to caring for. We have a 4-acre back pasture that is very overgrown (mostly deciduous trees and impassable...