9 THINGS TO CHECK BEFORE You Build Your Homestead House in the WRONG SPOT!
You got some property... NOW WHAT? If you are planning on building a homestead from scratch, maybe even an off grid home, eventually you will need to choose a spot to put your house.
How do you choose the best spot to place your home? Don't make a costly mistake, in this episode of the Homesteady #Podcast Logan Parker from Heirloom Builders joins us to talk about how to choose the best location on your property for your home.
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Choosing a Family Cow Explained! In this video from www.thisishomesteady.com we have You join our continuing discussion on what the right breed of cow is for a family cow.
We are in the research stage of family cows and are trying to decide if we should make the jump into the world of cows. We share with you some of our research into the subject, as we try to answer what is the best family cow breed.
Do you have some cow advice for us? Please share in the comments below! We would love to learn more from you all.
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Today we share with you 13 things that we do on the chick's arrival that makes the day go smoother.
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It is milking time, and when K throws her back out it means Aust has to milk!
How will he do? Watch todays video!
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Every meal we eat has a story behind it. Sometimes we know that story so well, and it has an incredible power over the food we enjoy..
What is the story behind your food?
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What is the best dual purpose livestock? Today we answer that question and many more homesteading and livestock questions in our Q and A, including
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Are Kiko goats good dual purpose animals? Should you get some?
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Today we attempt to get our Cows to go on the livestock trailer. We want to train them to go on the livestock trailer for the big move.
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Loading any animal onto a livestock trailer the first time isn't easy. But as we are moving in just a few days, we needed to start to train the cows to go on the trailer.
Today we let the cows get a little hungrier than usual. This allowed us to convince them to go near the trailer to be fed.
Once the cows started feeding on the trailer, they warmed up pretty quickly!
Loading animals on a livestock trailer is a training process that should start days ahead of the final moving day. You want animals to not be afraid of the trailer, and be used to going on it.
It is also good to allow plenty of time for the final loading, as animals sense when your anxious and may not want to load.
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Our cow gave us a surprise today... When we were not expecting her too... (actually thought we had missed it...) She went into heat!
We are planning on breeding ladybug soon, but since she is hard to tell when she is heat, we were planning on syncing her heat with hormones.
Today K went out to feed the cows and found out, to her surprise, Ladybug was entering heat!
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Learn how to Process a Turkey on farm in todays video.
This last week it was time to process our giant turkey! Aver the last year we attempted to raise turkeys for the purpose of selling to our customers. After we wound up losing most of them to issues with the delivery, we wound up with just 1 tom.
This week we butchered him on the homestead.
In this video we wanted to show you how to process a turkey simply, with no power tools, boiling water, or any fancy processing equipment. Just our hands and a few hand tools.
To process the turkey we made a large killing cone out of a plastic garbage container. We loaded the turkey into the cone. Then once he was killed we moved on to plucking him.
Plucking is very time consuming, and it can be hard to get every last feather, so I demonstrate how to use a small propane torch (what I call a "chicken cooker") to get the last little feathers.
After the bulk of the plucking is done, we show you how to gut the turkey and clean the cavity.
Finally we clean it all up and cool it down.
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