Animal Husbandry

Animal husbandry is an important skill. These articles provide valuable information for raising, caring for, and harvesting different animals.

Up to Speed: Holly

Up to Speed: Holly

One Year Ago: Meet Holly. You’ll have to excuse her terrified expression. You see, she’s six years old and has never been off the Amish farm where she was born until now. She had just had her first trailer ride and this was probably her first photo session. It took one bag of milk replacer…

Up to Speed: A Rough Beginning

Up to Speed: A Rough Beginning

One Year Ago: ~2012 Meat Chicken Cost Analysis~ I don’t know if it was because it was almost surreal that we were actually going after all this time, or that my first trimester discomforts and exhaustion seeped well into the second trimester or that orchestrating the moving a large family and homestead across the state is…

Of Pigs & Broken Fences

Of Pigs & Broken Fences

It’s never a good day when you’re trying to coordinate laying four children down for their nap at the same time and you finally have them settled enough to where you can read them a chapter from Charlotte’s Web and one says, “O shoot.” It only took a moment after lifting them from the book…