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Disbudding Kids, Easy and Quick

July 3, 2017 by Brenda 6 Comments

Little brown baby goat

I love baby goat kids, but I hate disbudding them.  It seems like in farming there is always something you really don’t like to do.  I guess you have to do the things you don’t like, so you can still have the fun and enjoy the rest.  My really good friend dis-budded the babies for…

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Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES Tagged With: buckling, caring for goats, dehorning goats, disbudding, disbudding kids tips, doeling, farm, farm animals, goat kids, goats, how to disbud goat kids

Important Tips ~ After Goat Kids are Born

March 13, 2018 by Brenda Leave a Comment

Important tips after the kids are born, mama goat yawning with 2 new babies laying with her

After your goats have their kids.  Here are some important tips to care for the doe and the kids.

Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES Tagged With: farm animals, farm life, goat, homesteading, Idaho, kidding, mastitis, milking, preventing mastitis, raising goats, Tips for kidding

Winter Prep Tips for Homesteaders

September 27, 2018 by Brenda Leave a Comment

Sprinklers are running and froze the wheel lines and also the barb wire

Fall is here and it is time to start new projects to prepare for winter.  Here are some tips to help you get started on your homestead preparations.

Filed Under: Animals, FALL FAVORITES, Homesteading, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES Tagged With: cold weather, harsh winters, How to prepare for winter, How to protect my animals in freezing weather, preparing for winter, Winter

Tips to Raise Bottle Calves Successfully

August 15, 2020 by Brenda Leave a Comment

Holstien bottle calf in the corral with a blue ear tag, healthy black and white calf in a corral

Raising bottle calves may sound simple but there are a few things that are handy to know before you get started, and even after you have brought your calf home.

Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES Tagged With: bottle calves, cows, homesteading, raising calves

Tips on how Much Hay to Feed a Goat

February 27, 2020 by Brenda Leave a Comment

Goat eating hay out of a wooden feeder

When it comes to feeding an animal there are many variations to decide the amount of feed to give them daily. Here are a few tips to think about when you are deciding how much to feed your goat.

Filed Under: Animals, FALL FAVORITES, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES, WINTER FAVORITES Tagged With: how to feed a goat

Cowboys – Waxed cotton Rope

September 20, 2016 by Brenda 2 Comments

Waxed Cotton Rope

Cowboy’s waxed cotton ropes.  When you are branding a large herd of cattle it takes every hand you can get, right down to the smallest buckaroo. For most ranch families, working cows means many long days of hard work.

Filed Under: Animals, FALL FAVORITES, Farming, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES Tagged With: branding, buckaroo, calves, cattle, cow, Cowboy, cows, horses, ranch hand, ranch rope, rodeo, saddle, tack, waxed cotton, waxed cotton rope, working cows

Got Milk? Tips for Great Tasting Goats Milk.

May 17, 2017 by Brenda Leave a Comment

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Got Milk?  Tips for great tasing goats milk.  I love goats milk.  When I first got my goats my family turned their nose up at the milk.  Since we had a house full of kids we went through a lot of milk.

Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES Tagged With: farm, farm fresh, goats milk, how to milk a goat, Milk, milking a goat

10 Time Saving Ideas for Homesteaders

June 29, 2017 by Brenda Leave a Comment

10 Time saving ideas with a clock

After talking with many homesteaders I found one of the things they struggle with the most is time.  My son always says  “I ran out of day!”  I think we would find this problem with homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, parents and many other people on any given day.

Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES Tagged With: chores, farm, farming, getting things done, homesteading, more time, organization, organize, ranch, ranching, saving time, time, time management, time saving ideas

DIY Bum Bar for Goats and Sheep

March 13, 2018 by Brenda Leave a Comment

pictures of animals, mountains and farm life.

How to make a bum bar for baby goats and sheep.  

Filed Under: Animals, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SPRING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES Tagged With: bottle feeding kids, bottle feeding lambs, Bum bar, farm animals, homesteading, homesteading tips, raising goats

Tips to Wean Baby Goats

August 11, 2018 by Brenda Leave a Comment

Tips to wean baby goats, 4 baby goats playing, one of the baby goats on his hind legs

I love to raise animals here on our farm, but there are a few things I don’t like.  Not because it is hard but it is just a part of raising animals that I don’t like.  

Filed Under: Animals, FALL FAVORITES, HOMESTEADING FAVORITES, SUMMER FAVORITES Tagged With: baby goats, farm, farm animals, goat kids, goats, raising goats, weaning goats

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