by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Animals
How many cows do you need to be self-sufficient? Before you decide to get into cow ownership to help you in your self-sufficient dream, it’s important to know exactly what you want a cow for. This may seem like an obvious question, but if you’re only...
by admin | Oct 16, 2024 | Animals
How Long Do Chickens Live? Chickens are the first step into keeping animals for anyone looking to become more self-sufficient. If you’re keeping them for meat, then you’ll only have to wait a few months, but most people keep them for their eggs and end up...
by admin | Sep 19, 2024 | Animals
How to feed pigs for free Pigs are well known for being glutinous animals and will eat pretty much anything you give them. They can pack away much more food than goats and sheep of the same size but require a more varied diet to be healthy. Although they can...
by admin | Sep 6, 2024 | Animals
Is It worth keeping pigs? The next step for a smallholding after a decent-sized chicken coup would be raising pigs for meat. They are one of the best meat-yielding animals and have a higher percentage of edible produce than any other animal you could raise on a farm....
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Animals
Are backyard chickens worth it? One of the biggest steps you can take on your journey to becoming more self-sufficient is the raising of some kind of animal, and the easiest one to start with by far would be the humble chicken. It’s a nice thought to be able to...
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