When I started Spy Dog Farm two and a half years ago it was with the latest grazing theories in mind, so-call “managment intensive” grazing that calls for confining the livestock in small areas behind portable electric fencing and moving them to fresh grass on a daily or even more frequent basis. Intensive management improves […]
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All summer long we’ve been taking care of 150 0r m0re Freedom Ranger meat chickens in various stages of development. That means tending the needs of 50-plus chicks in the basement brooder until they’re big enough to go outside, and dragging another hundred around our pastures in big “tractors” (cages) until they’re ready for slaughter. […]
Tags:chickens
How could I be so dumb? After our Jersey heifer Emily gave birth in late March, more experienced farmers told us that we would need to “skip a month” before breeding her again. For some reason I added that month to July, the month we bred her the year previous. That would mean waiting till […]
Tags:breeding·cow·insemination
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