Livestock & Poultry Guides
From your first backyard flock to managing pasture-raised livestock, learn the skills needed to raise healthy and productive animals on your homestead.
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Beekeeping Equipment Checklist: Everything You Need to Start and Run a Backyard Hive
A friendly, no fluff beekeeping equipment checklist for homesteaders. Every essential, every optional upgrade, what to skip, and what each piece of gear actually costs in 2026.
How to Harvest Honey on a Homestead: A Beekeeper's Guide to Timing, Tools, and Technique
A friendly homestead guide to harvesting honey from backyard hives. When honey is ready, how to pull supers, extract and strain, render wax, and what yields to expect from year one onward.
Bees Seasonal Management: A Beekeeper's Year Round Guide for Homesteaders
A friendly, season by season guide to managing bees on a homestead. Spring buildup, summer flow, fall prep, winter survival. The tasks, timing, and thresholds that keep your hive alive every month of the year.
Bee Hive Types Compared: Langstroth, Top Bar, Warre, and Flow Hive
A friendly comparison of the four main bee hive types for homesteaders. Pros, cons, costs, honey yields, and which hive is the best fit for your backyard apiary.
Goat Breeding Basics: A Friendly Homestead Guide to Heat Cycles, Bucks, Kidding, and Healthy Kids
A practical goat breeding basics guide for homesteaders. Time heat cycles, pick the right buck plan, prep for kidding, handle delivery problems, and raise strong kids.
Goat Health Guide: Spot, Treat, and Prevent the Common Issues That Cost Homestead Herds
A practical goat health guide for homesteaders. Spot parasites, coccidia, urinary calculi, bloat, pneumonia, and kidding troubles early. Learn what to treat at home and when to call the vet.
What to Feed Homestead Goats: A Friendly Feeding Guide for Every Life Stage
A practical homestead goats feeding guide. Pick the right feed for kids, growing wethers, does in milk, and bucks. Learn how much to feed, which minerals matter, and how to cut feed costs without cheating your herd.
Goat Fencing Guide: Build an Escape Proof Pen Your Herd Can Actually Live In
A practical goat fencing guide for homesteaders. Pick the right fence type, set posts and heights that work, budget real costs, and build a pen your goats cannot escape.
Raising Chicks on a Homestead: A Friendly Week by Week Guide From Day One
A practical homestead guide to raising chicks. Build a safe brooder, set the right heat, feed them well, and follow a week by week timeline from day one to the coop.
How to Take Care of Chickens in the Winter: A Friendly Cold Weather Guide for Homestead Flocks
A practical guide to chicken winter care on a homestead. Keep your flock warm, hydrated, and laying through cold weather without heat lamps, frozen waterers, or frostbite.
The Cost of Raising Chickens: A Real Homestead Budget for Backyard Flocks
A practical guide to the real cost of raising chickens. Startup costs for chicks and a coop, monthly feed and bedding, hidden expenses, egg payback math, and how to keep your flock affordable.
How to Protect Chickens From Predators: A Whole Homestead Guide to Keeping Your Flock Alive
A practical guide to protecting backyard chickens from predators. Identify threats, layer your defenses, set up the run, use guardian animals, and build a routine that keeps your flock alive.
What to Feed Homestead Chickens: A Friendly Feeding Guide for Every Life Stage
A practical homestead chickens feeding guide. Pick the right feed for chicks, pullets, and laying hens. Learn how much to feed, which supplements matter, and how to cut feed costs.
Homestead Chickens Egg Production: How Many Eggs to Expect and How to Keep Them Coming
A practical guide to homestead chickens egg production. Learn how many eggs hens lay, when they start, why they stop, and how to keep your basket full year round.
Homestead Chickens Common Health Issues: How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent the Big Ones
A practical guide to common homestead chicken health issues. Spot mites, respiratory illness, egg binding, bumblefoot, and more early. Learn what to treat at home and when to call the vet.
Raising Goats for Beginners: The Complete Guide to a Happy, Healthy Homestead Herd
A friendly, no fluff guide to raising goats on a homestead. Pick the right breed, build safe fencing, feed your herd, manage health, and dodge beginner mistakes.
Raising Bees for Beginners: A Handcrafted Guide to Apiculture
A friendly, no fluff guide to raising bees on a homestead. Pick the right hive, source your bees, manage them through every season, harvest honey, and dodge the rookie mistakes.
Raising Rabbits for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Meat, Manure, and a Self Sufficient Homestead
A friendly, no fluff guide to raising rabbits on a homestead. Pick the right breed, build safe housing, feed and water them right, manage health, and dodge the common beginner mistakes.
Getting Started with Nigerian Dwarf Goats
Everything new homesteaders need to know about Nigerian Dwarf goats. Housing, feeding, milking, costs, and why they thrive on small properties.
Beekeeping 101: A Beginner's Guide to Starting Your First Hive
Everything you need to start your first beehive. Equipment, hive types, getting your bees, year one care, costs, and the rookie mistakes to skip.
Raising Meat Rabbits on Pasture
How to raise healthy meat rabbits on pasture using rabbit tractors. Breeds, daily moves, forage, predator protection, and butchering basics for new homesteaders.
Getting Started with Homestead Pigs
Everything new homesteaders need to know about raising feeder pigs. Breeds, housing, fencing, feed, costs, butcher timeline, and the rookie mistakes to skip.
How to Build a Predator-Proof Coop: 7 Features That Keep Your Flock Alive
A practical guide to building a chicken coop that stops raccoons, foxes, hawks, snakes, and weasels. Hardware specs, design choices, and the locking routine that keeps your birds safe.
Raising Chickens for Beginners: The Complete Guide to a Happy, Healthy Backyard Flock
A friendly, no fluff guide to raising chickens from day one. Pick breeds, build a coop, feed your flock, gather eggs, and dodge the most common beginner mistakes.