Raising Animals
How to Tell if a Goat Is Pregnant Before She Starts to Show
You put the buck in with your does two months ago, and now every one of them looks a little round.
Livestock and pasture writer
Mabel grew up on her family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on her own few acres. She writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.
Raising Animals
You put the buck in with your does two months ago, and now every one of them looks a little round.
Raising Animals
Your hens look like they lost a pillow fight, there are feathers drifting across the run every morning, and the egg basket has...
Raising Animals
Your best laying hen has legs that look rough, crusty and oddly lifted, like the scales are being pushed up from underneath.
Raising Animals
A hen standing upright like a penguin, tail pumping, sitting in the nest box for hours with nothing to show for it, is a hen in...
Raising Animals
Your goat is walking on the sides of her feet, the hoof wall has folded under like a rolled sock, and you are not sure how much...
Soil Health
A lab test tells you pH and phosphorus, but it will not tell you whether your soil is alive and working.