Animals

Selecting the Best Backyard Farm Animals

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There are many reasons you may want to consider adding backyard farm animals to your homestead.  Many animals that are traditionally considered farm animals are well adapted to smaller scale backyard farming and can provide food, pollination, compost materials, bug suppression, enjoyment, and more.  Many people choose to start with raising backyard chickens, but there are many other backyard farm animals well adapted to a small backyard space.  

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Chicken tunnels and chicken runs

Building the Best Chicken Runs, Chicken Tunnels, and More on Your Backyard Farm

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 The big update this week in the garden (beside getting seeds in the ground like crazy) are the new chicken tunnels.  Since our girls are currently on lock down in their run while the seeds get established in the garden, we decided it was time to give them somewhere new to roam and use their bug eating capabilities at the same time.

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Bee Swarming Signs – A Real life story of Bees Swarming

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Keeping bees is one of those endeavors that lives at the intersection of carefully studied research and a little creative ingenuity. Learning the bee swarming signs is important to any bee keeper.  For those people who’ve kept bees for life or have a huge operation, bee keeping most likely is simply a matter of intuition and know-how, but for many of us who keep just a few hives, understanding and managing the unique behavior in your bee hive can feel a bit overwhelming.

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