I recently noticed obvious signs that something was killing the hens in our new flock of Americauna layers and thought it must me some kind of large raptor. How else would the perpetrator get over the four-foot-tall electric fence surrounding the chickens and their coop if not with wings? There were lots of feathers indicating […]
Temporary electric fencing has made grazing management vastly more efficient. I bought 80-foot lengths of sheep netting and build squares on our pastures for the ruminants to mow. The only problem: when the grass grows tall, you have to cut lanes before you can set up the fencing. Last year I wrecked both my elbows […]
If you raise your own livestock and care at all about planning pregnancies then at a certain point the boys have to be separated from the girls. Our boy goat, Tigger, has the best of this arrangement. He gets to spend his days grazing with the sheep and his true love interest, Jersey heifer Emily. […]
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