Our Tips To Help You Successfully Hatch Goose Eggs article is one of the most popular articles on our website. In that article we picture a homemade incubator/hatcher that we use. We are frequently asked how we made that goose egg incubator. So today, we are going to show you how we made our basic…
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Slashing Your Feed Bill With Locally Sourced Feed
I’m sure you probably already know that feeding livestock can get expensive. This is particularly true if you are feeding high production animals that cannot perform off hay or pasture alone. A small flock of sheep eating 1-2lb/head a day of grain will burn through a 50 lb bag of feed in no time. What…
The Perfect Alternative Heat Source For Brooding Chicks
If you have ever raised chicks or ducklings, then you know that for the first several weeks after they hatch, they require heat. Because they are unable to regulate their body temperature, it is necessary to provide them with an area that has very warm temperatures to keep them from dying of hypothermia. The traditional…