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I agree with Clint, I have two flocks of hens with roosters, one set is in the barn with access to the pasture, the other is in the hen house with access to the orchard. Both groups have access to the yard, I have had chickens since moving to the property 40 yrs ago and have never to my...

I live in western Pennsylvania. When I moved onto my homestead there were probably a dozen or so plants and since I mowed the grass I didn’t think anything about it. Now 40 years later I want to have my flock of sheep mow off my yard and then realized that there were patches all over my front...

I like to start fermenting different spring plant to make either a topping for salads and the like or just use up some of the produces which I had stored to much for the winter into usable items for summer like cabbage to kraut, broccoli and cauliflower with ramp and spring onions, adding a jar...

You may want to make a very liquid form of chicken food smoothie much more water than food but get her taking nutrition. Keep her calm and warm.

Wow it’s great to hear all that’s going on in everyone’s gardens. In NW PA it can’t decide yet whether we’re still in winter or spring. Getting my garden dug one piece at a time but going slow. Sheep are looking ragged. Lambs are fisty, bunnies are just coming out of the nest and thinking I...

Crop content is food in her crop that slipped into her lungs however it would have had to be in her mouth before going into her lungs. That said; my hens had a winter illness, respitory type with mucus, wheezing and sneezing and the lot. I took willow branches and wild cherry branches and soaked...

Not to through a wrench in the works i hate to throw a wrench into the works and this is my belief, but you should probably read the article about proctor and gambel on eviemagazine.com which tells how proctor and gamble paid the American Heart Association to mislead the American public against...

I am interested in some of your comments, right now my buff Orpington roosters are breeding my Cornish cross hens. And I’m getting the bred response. I’ve checked the eggs and the embryos are starting to divide so we’re going to put them under a buff hen or in an incubator to see if they will...

Since I’m 72 going on 73 soon and have been organic farming since I was 9 when I bought my first rabbits and chickens for eggs I have learned an encyclopedias full of life adventures. I just butcher my own hogs now and get aaalll the lard I want. I’m building a scolder so I just roll the hog in...

I asked them not to trim but in the processors eyes it was still too much lard. So he cut at least half off.

I have raised Asian heritage hogs for several years now. At 73 I find that the AHH is much easier for me to handle when butchering, as I scald and I don’t lose a valuable commodity the lard. I have a family that feels only butchers know how to butcher and so taking some to a butcher friend he...

I find many articles on BYC and other places on the web interesting. I am 72 years of age and have had chickens since I was six. I try to feed my birds a diet of non gmo grains and farm waste such as dinner scrapes, bruised and fallen fruit and vegetables from garden and orchard and when free...

I have to disagree and agree. I have been raising chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, rabbits, and Aussie dogs for 66 years now and yes pigs will eat everything but they are also opportunists. If it’s there and not moving it’s dinner. If it can run when a pig comes after it pigs learn fast leave...

I have raised Asian heritage hogs for five years. The purpose was for meat. Asian heritage pigs are a heavy lard pig like American Guinea hogs the problem I had was if I wanted anything to eat left don’t take it to a butcher. They trim. And then you have small chops, hams, bacon, and such. I...