Working and dealing with animals on a homestead, ranch or farm
Are you confused with all the terminology about beef? Grain finished, grass fed, natural/organic beef and grass finished might be making your head spin as you go shop through the grocery store and your not sure which one is the best for you. Here’s a simple way of explaining the differences. Grain Finished-The Majority of …
In 2010 my life changed forever… I said goodbye to the suburbs, college life and packed my car and took a 24 hour road trip to the land that I would call my new home; Rockville, Oregon. 45 miles from the closest grocery store, hospital and to most people, civilization. As I settled down into …
I present you, a guinea: This is not your typical bird and most people have never seen or heard of them, but I’m becoming convinced that they are the best kept secret for gardeners and people with bug infestations. I came upon guineas when I was trying to find a natural method for bug control …
I apologize for not posting a new story in quite a while. Summer is just a busy time. Right now my hands are full with a bummer lamb. A bummer lamb is a lamb that it’s mother either: didn’t accept it, the mother died, or had health problems; in this case the mother had a nasty case …
I’ve been wanting to write an article about branding for quite some time but just never got around to writing it. Well, I really started thinking about how I was going to write this article when I looked on the wall street journal and say this article: In a Beef Over Branding. This article made it …
Right now Sean and I have successfully raised meat sheep, cows, and pigs. After watching the documentary “Food Inc.” we decided that we would like to try to raise meat chickens since we are not very fond of the way meat chickens are raised. So we decided to split 50 meat chicks with his family …
Ever heard of a packrat? Most of us associate this name immediately with a person who collects way too much stuff and is unwilling to throw anything away. The funny thing is, is that not many people know (or believe) that a packrat is actually an animal; a rat! They are native to the western side of …
The biggest packrat ever! And I’m not talking about a person! Read More »
Never would’ve thought that a rabbit and sheep would become such good friends.
How big is your ranch, how much acreage do you own, how many cows do you have? If you want to put a big stamp on your face saying, “I don’t know anything about ranching,” then ask a rancher any of these questions, but to save you the embarrassment of either getting an offensive response or getting on the …
Recently, Geico came out with a commercial where a pig sticks it head out the window of a car the entire ride home screaming WEEEE . If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty funny and worth checking out. But for anyone who has raised pigs at any point knows that this commercial is actually pretty …
Did the little pig go wee wee wee all the way home? Read More »