Homesteading Pets

5 Things We’ve Learned Owning an Intact Buck

Our first couple of years owning Nigerian Dwarf goats, we didn’t have an intact buck on the farm, just a…

3 years ago

Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part Three: The Animals

Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part One: The Buildings Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part Two: The Machinery There’s a…

4 years ago

Barn Cats: Thugs of the Homestead

Working when they feel like it, sleeping the day away, partying all night, and making sure you know that whatever…

4 years ago

Farm Dogs: See Spot Work

  Most farms have at least one dog hanging around, and that dog may even do something to justify his…

6 years ago

Fishing Without Chena: A Touching and Honest Story of a Man and his Dog

  [In unpublished writings,] I tried to convey the love I felt for her by indirection; that is, by fussing…

6 years ago