farm

What would your dream farm be? If you had unlimited resources and all the time in the world (plus enough people to help with whatever size operation you wanted). Mine is the following. I'd like a holistic farm, actually more like a commune because I'd like enough land to house people for free...

We raise English Shepherds here on our Ranch in the Missouri Ozarks, as well as heritage breeds of Sheep, goats, chickens, and crossbred cattle. Our dogs accompany us with chores and help move the sheep and goats from pasture to pasture in a rotational grazing system.

As Lambing comes into full swing I am reminded of the delicate balance that we are forced to strike every year in dealing with customers. It would be easy to blame the customer for being too demanding and just focus on the greatest number of surviving lamb/kids and get them to market weight in...

Hello to all my fellow backyard Mamas (and Pa's too) I've been around the goating world for quite a while now. My herd is a small group of Registered Nigerian Dwarves, collected and retained over a decade of continually breeding for better characteristics in future generations. This little...

Hi there, My name is Jessica and I have been reading posts on backyardchickens and backyardherds for a long while now but haven't posted before. My husband and I have lived in Enumclaw, Washington our entire lives (27, 32) but are looking to move out-of-state to the Whitefish/Kalispell...

So has anyone got a rural home loan. How did it work out for you? DH and I are thinking about it. I'm tired of living where we can't even paint a door or put our garden where we want. Not to mention the rats and bad plumbing that never gets fix. We could just keep renting but few landlords give...

Too funny! Video Link: City Folk Farming .

I am here to share information about saving a bloated bunny rabbits life I have stumbled on to a way to help save most bloated baby and adult bunny rabbits I have saved 17 rabbits both baby and adults from dying a painful death caused by bloating first of all I was told there is no real cure to...

Hi my name is Holly Beatenbo i'm currently working for a petting farm and have a small hobby farm. we raise Scottish highlander cows, pot bellied pigs, miniature horses and donkeys, angora goats and milk goats, alpacas, and one llama named Jeffery, angora rabbits, dwarf rabbits, ponies and much...

*******Warning: Thread may contain graphic pics of blood, innards, dead animals, etc., as we live on and work a homestead, on which this pup's job is integral. If this offends you, you might want to leave the thread now. ****** Thought I'd move my training of our 2.5 mo. old LGD pup over to a...