How to Make a Wild Grapevine Wreath
Bring a little bit of nature into your home with this easy craft project. You can forage wild grape vines and use them to make a wreath with these simple steps. Decorate your wreath however you choose.
How to Band Buck Kids: One Method for Castration
Banding is an effective method of castration for male goat kids. Provided are the equipment and steps needed to complete this procedure on your own farm.
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How to Refill Wallflowers: A Homemade Recipe
It’s easy to make your own Wallflower refills. Use this recipe to make an air freshening solution that is free of toxins. Your home will smell fresh and you can breathe easy knowing just what is being released!
How to Make a DIY Creep Feeder for Goats
If you want your goat kids to have access to grain, without having to worry about the adult animals in the pen eating all of the food, you need a creep feeder. Here are the directions for making a corner creep feeder with a cattle panel. This works great for putting extra weight on dam-raised market kids.
How to make Whipped Tallow Balm: Wild Reid Ranch’s Recipe
Tallow balm is the dream cream you have been wishing for, it is light, non-greasy, and rubs in well. You can make this tallow balm with just three ingredients and a hand mixer. You will love using your homemade balm on your face and body.
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Mother Knows Best: 5 Reasons to Dam-Raise Goat Kids
When managing a goat herd, you have to choose between dam-raising and bottle feeding kids. There are pros and cons to each scenario, but here are the reasons why we prefer dam-raising on our farm.
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How to Make Solid Tallow Balm: Wild Reid Ranch’s Recipe
Tallow balm is great for your skin. This recipe is super easy to make with just three ingredients. It will be your new favorite skincare product! Make a solid balm to rub in with your fingers or make a tallow lotion bar to rub on your skin, the choice is yours.
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How to Disbud Goat Kids
If you don’t want to have a goat with horns, one method for preventing their growth is disbudding at a young age. Here are the equipment and steps we use to disbud goat kids on our farm.
How to Make Tallow Lip Balm: Wild Reid Ranch’s Recipe
Tallow makes a great base for lip balm, it is rich and moisturizing. This recipe uses tallow and beeswax from animals on our farm. This simple lip balm will be your new favorite!
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How to Wet Render Tallow: The Stovetop Method
You can get snow-white, odorless, moisturizing tallow from suet or the fat surrounding the organs of a ruminant animal. Here is one way to render the fat into tallow, using your kitchen stove. This wet, stovetop method consists of warming the tallow and straining it to remove impurities.