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Homemade Udder Balm
I got caught off guard and with a million little things to take care of on the ranch, I ran out of udder balm. Here’s an easy recipe for homemade udder balm to rub on the teats of your cows or goats!...
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Homestead Health: Beef Liver
I know this may sound gross to some, but I’ve been trying to figure an easy way to get organ meats into our family’s diet, specifically beef liver. On the homestead, utilizing all the parts of our meat...
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Raising Barn Cats
Want a surefire way to control the mice population on your farm or homestead? Get a barn cat, or two! Adding barn cats to our menagerie of animals has proven to be one of the best investments in my...
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The Family Milk Cow: How To Dry Off A Cow
So I wouldn’t recommend doing this in -20 degrees like we did last November, but when the time is right for drying off your family milk cow you better get ‘er done. Drying off your family milk cow is...
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The Family Milk Cow: How To Tell When Your Cow Will Calve
When my Tilly was getting close to calving, I scoured the internet looking for pictures of cows that were close to calving. Sure, you can read what those signs are but to have a picture, for a newbie,...
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This Hurts. Straight To My Bones.
So this isn’t about me…I mean really, it doesn’t hurt me that much. But it reaches through my chest and puts a knife straight through my heart. A few weeks ago I posted on how to wean a calf and dry up...
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Homestead Health: Beef Tallow
I have a confession to make: I love fat. Yep, I bet you’ve figured that out already. I love clouds of cream in my coffee, tall glasses of whole raw milk, veggies sauteed in lard, and coconut oil in my...
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Chickens, According To A 7 Year Old.
Well she is almost 7……but man do kids have life NAILED. As the girls and I were mucking stalls the other day, I commented on how the chickens scratch and peck at the straw and really “fluff” it up, AKA...
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The Family Milk Cow: Preparing For Calving
For years as a Labor and Delivery nurse, I had to have everything under the sun set up and available if needed during a birth. Thankfully, a cow birthing is not as fancy as a hospital birth! Every time...
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Three Years In The Making
Friends. This picture below took 3 years to capture. This picture is the result of blood, sweat, and most certainly tears. That Porterhouse steak came from this guy (pictured below). Precious Norm. He...
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