11/03/2015 How to Render Beef Tallow How to Render Beef Tallow If you are: new to rendering things aren’t sure what “rendering” is don’t know why you would … Read More 60
10/20/2015 How to Build a Milk Barn You and Your Cow Will Love – A Tour of Our Milking Parlor How to Build a Milk Barn. This post is a response to a reader request. Thank you for the question & please … Read More 84
10/15/2015 Do Your Children (and Grandchildren) Know Where Food Comes From? We have had many children out to our homestead. Girl groups, church groups, boy groups, little kids, teenage kids, lots of kids. … Read More 164
10/13/2015 How You End up with a Bull Oops, I did it again. More cows….. Warning: this post includes a hunky bull, complaining and balls. Stop reading if any of … Read More 52
10/02/2015 Farm Chores – How Long do They Take? Farm Chores – How much time do they take? I homeschool my 4 children. I do lots of laundry. I cook lots … Read More 76
09/18/2015 Buying Meat in Bulk – How to Buy a Cow – What to buy – What You’ll get How to Buy a Cow (and other animals). Did you think that if you bought a 1000 pound cow you would … Read More 70
07/10/2015 2 More Things You Should Know About Bottle Feeding a Calf – Norman Update We are bottle feeding a calf for the first time. It is a pretty simple process. Feed the calf a bottle 2-3 … Read More 51
06/10/2015 3 Things to Know About Bottle Feeding Calves – Meet Our Bottle Baby! Bottle Feeding Calves. We have a bottle baby! A week ago, we thought our girl, Faith, was going to pull through. We … Read More 49
06/06/2015 Saying Goodbye to a Dear Friend We said goodbye to our sweet, sweet Jersey Cow, Faith. I could spend a decade wondering if we did all the right … Read More 49
05/31/2015 Milk Fever Hangover – She’s Still Hanging in There! I thought I’d send out an update on our sweet, Jersey-cow, Faith. If you haven’t been following, be thankful. It’s been a … Read More 37
05/29/2015 Faith is Still Standing Faith is still alive. She is not out of the woods yet. The doctor was by again yesterday. She is getting fantastic … Read More 47
05/27/2015 Down With Milk Fever Faith miscarried her calf Monday night. Our vet came out and delivered her calf. Before he left he said, “There are 2 types of … Read More 44
05/11/2015 9 Reasons to Get a Jersey Cow and 3 Reasons Not to…….. 9 Reasons to Get a Jersey Cow (and 3 Reasons Not to) Why a Jersey Cow? There are many breeds of cows. … Read More 73
05/08/2015 There’s a Walrus at My Farm Land Walrus. My oldest son has decided that our Jersey cow, Faith, looks like a walrus. He may be right. Why? She’s … Read More 48
05/03/2015 Working Calves that….. don’t want to be worked I thought I’d show you how cute our calf is. By the end of this post you may concede that she is … Read More 48