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Mabel Ostrander

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.

Livestock and pasture writer, page 4 of 8

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