6 Mouse-proof Grain Storage Ideas
To prevent rodent-carried diseases, contamination of your livestock feed, and wasting money, it’s important that grain be stored securely. Here are a range of ideas for keeping mice and rats out of your animal feed.
To prevent rodent-carried diseases, contamination of your livestock feed, and wasting money, it’s important that grain be stored securely. Here are a range of ideas for keeping mice and rats out of your animal feed.
This year we are going to upsize our pig pen and take on a few additional animals to accommodate fair projects for the kids, as well as one for our freezer. This meant building an additional pig feeder, which you can find the link to instructions for that here. It also meant we needed an
Lard is a versatile product made from rendering pig fat. You can think of rendering lard as a refining process that allows for the separation of pure fat from cracklings (bits of meat, skin, and fat that remain after rendering has been completed). Lard can be used in place of oil for cooking, baking, and
Most of the meat that you see on any given day at our dinner table comes from our farm, whether it was raised in our pasture or hunted on our property. From 18-month-old steers, to wild rabbit and squirrel, they all make the same stops and are handled with the same care to provide as
I don’t buy meat at the grocery store. In our house, we eat home-grown beef, pork, goat, chicken, and rabbit (as well as wild game) from our freezers. In today’s over-processed food market, we prefer to raise our own animals to ensure that our family has the highest quality protein sources in their diet. Unless
A quick and easy way to apply sunscreen to your hogs is with a hand-held, pump-action livestock sprayer. These can be purchased at a farm store or online, I ordered mine on Amazon. These are nice because they touch-free- you don’t have to rub anything on the pig’s skin by hand. Also, the nozzle is
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My daughter got two Yorkshire hogs for the county fair this year. Being white with pink skin, we knew they were very prone to sunburn, so we had to have a game plan! Why Sunburn in Pigs is a Concern Sunburn in pigs can be very painful for them and can make them go off