If you’ve got goats, sheep, or other small livestock, you know predators always seem to test your fencing at the most ...
One reader reflects on the pros and cons of letting small-livestock predators co-exist with homestead animals, including ways to predator-proof your homestead. It’s absolutely inevitable. At some ...
Besides sturdy fencing, guard dogs are the primary tool to prevent such horrors, not just with sheep, but goats, calves, chickens, ducks, and any other livestock small enough for a predator to take ...
Photo by Janelle Patterson M.J. Ebenhack walks her two 5-year-old Pygora goats, Sadie, left, and Warren, up her driveway from Colegate Drive in Marietta. MARIETTA — Urban and rural access to the ...
Retail livestock feed supply businesses stock and sell a wide array of animal feed and other products for animal care, focusing on agricultural livestock such as cows, horses and chickens. Small feed ...
Tucked away behind the trees along Bendigo Boulevard in the Snoqualmie Valley, Lulu Redder and her farmhand stand underneath two canopies, processing chickens five at a time, with Redder’s two dogs ...
ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...
Pat the ewe walks around in her enclosure at Graham Fire and Rescue Station 96 in Graham, Wash. on Oct. 4, 2022. Pat was rescued by firefighters at the station after she was reported wandering around ...
The City of Xenia may soon allow people to own more chickens and bunnies. Since 2016, the city has allowed its residents to own small livestock and have up to four animals on their property. Recently ...