Farm livestock

Most of the world’s 7.7 billion people rely on annual plants for food. By definition, these crops perform their entire life cycle in a single growing season. In under 12 months, they sprout, flower…

A homesteader recounts their journey to self-sufficient goat keeping and the ones they chose for their small farm. Includes tips goat breeds

Whether you've had chickens for a while and are getting ready to add other livestock to the farm, are just getting ready to add chickens to your farm, or simply worried about introducing chickens to your other pets, you be wondering, will other animals get along just fine with my chickens? Are there any benefits or drawbacks to raising other animals along with my chickens? Chickens are amazing versatile, and generally get along just fine with other livestock, but it's not always that…

Saanens—the breed Hooper and his wife, Daryll Breau, raise at Ayers Brook Goat Dairy in Randolph, Vermont—are recognized as the highest-producing goat breed in the world. Originally from Switzerland, with snowy white fur and pink-tinged ears and noses, the average doe can give milk for 150 to 300 days on a single lactation cycle.

Have you ever met a chicken? I mean really looked at one of those clucking, crazed birds and wondered what the HELL was going on in there? I had not. Until I went out to Fili-West Farms and met... The Chicken Lord. Today we’re diving into a chicken and egg story about cleaner, greener f

"I take the conventions from the fashion world and apply them to the underclass barnyard animal," Rob MacInnis told The New York Times. I saw

Making waves in any industry can be difficult but especially one as male dominated as agriculture. She's one of the many amazing women we will be celebrating this Women's Month. Well done Ayanda!

Large animal vets treat a variety of livestock species including horses and cattle. This guide covers the required training, duties and more.

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Their principal enterprise was dairy farming, they would purchase 500 ewes each year, lamb them out in the spring and then sell them with lambs at foot.