Homestead Livestock
Here’s our site portal to information on keeping, feeding, and butchering livestock. I’ll break it down into a few primary starting points and you can go from there. Read the
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How to Grow and Harvest Fodder Trees
Fodder trees are just trees that grow leaves, nuts, or fruit for livestock feed. I have over 1,000 fodder trees on a small coppice lot and they provide a ton
What to Know Before Getting Homestead Animals
How Will Livestock Affect Your Life? Livestock will take some of your time, energy, and money and convert it to food, peace of mind, and secure resilience. When you have
How to Use Biochar in Animal Feed
We manufacture biochar and regularly include it in our animal feed. It has made a noticeable improvement on the quality of our animals. Add dry biochar to animal feed at
Standard Feed Basics (by animal)
*concentrates are anything calorie-rich or protein-rich. All seeds, some seed by-products, molasses, and fats/oils are examples of concentrates. The General Overview Chickens All chickens do best on a started feed
Most Profitable Livestock Per Acre
We operate on a small property so I have to understand the more profitable animals. Specialty Hogs Specialty breed pigs are the most profitable livestock to raise per acre in