It is mid July, the hottest time of the year, and we have a cow we need to butcher. What are we going to do? One of the most important things to do when butchering an animal is to make sure the meat stays cold! Farmers will often use fall or winter times to do […]
Set Up an At Home Butcher Shop
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Make Your Farm Business Thrive in the Days Ahead
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The Worst News.
This week we got the worst news about our cow ladybug. In a previous video we shared the news that a routine disease test for our cows showed that Ladybug may be sick with Johnes Disease. Johnes Disease is devastating. It is a wasting disease, that prevents a cow from absorbing nutrients from the […]
We Will NEVER Get this Animal Again…
We have owned close to a thousand animals over our Homesteading life. A quick estimate of our animals over the years 500 Meat Chickens 100 Egg laying Chickens 50 Pigs 4 Cows 20 Turkeys 50 Guineas 5 dogs 7 Sheep 25 Goats 50 Rabbits Oh yea… and 2 Camels. We really love raising livestock. I […]
WHY I SWITCHED PIG BREEDS!
For about 5 years on our old homestead in Connecticut I ran a pork business. Over those 5 years I raised a lot of different kinds of pigs. Hampshire. Tamworth. Berkshire. But mostly I raised Yorkshire Landrace Crosses. The big pink commercial breed of pig. They are like the Cornish Cross of pigs. They have […]
