Keeping animals in your homestead can be very rewarding but economically and intrinsically. Nothing like watching the antics of the sheep or goats in the snow from the comfort of your cozy wood heated home. Caring for you four footed friends in the winter will always present challenges. ...
Tag Archive: Animal Care
Hay management the old fashioned way
When you keep critters the need to graze or eat hay in the winter, working with hay bales becomes important. The more machines you have the less back work required. Here is how we did it this year. Each year I spend lots ...
Free Hay Makes My Day
Everyone has their own star. At least anyone can register a star named after them in some giant star catalog. Well this time of year the stars for Shilo, Setro wooly, Madison, Grover, Jumba, and about eight others ...
Off Grid Chicken Tips
In our first guest post, resident chicken "expert", Ondra provides important tips for raising chickens off grid. Ondra has worked many years with just about any kind of chicken you can imagine, and has created many veterinary solutions for her chickens, from splayed legs ...
Off Grid Animal Management – Reloaded
Taking care of your animals can pose particular challenges when you live off grid. For example, keeping the llama, sheep, and goat water from freezing is more of a manual chore since you can't easily use electric water heaters in their water. Sometimes in the dead of winter, the herd will behave strangely, and you have to ...
All Compact Florescent Lights not the Same!
Compact Florescent(CF) lights have been quite a blessing to those off grid as well as on. The power savings of CF lights over normal incandescent lights made everyone like ourselves and early adopter. When it seemed like and overpriced luxury for most people, it made ...
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