How To Build A Round Pen
My dear hubby would argue, that it is not always about me, but this post will surely prove him wrong. For starters, we presently do […]
Livestock
DIY Chicken Seed Roll Treats
How dare you leave the chickens in their coop without any treats? How dare you? After all the posts I have made on this blog […]
How To Clean Chicken Eggs
We have seen them… dirty eggs fresh from the nesting boxes. Sometimes you are just way too busy to be bothered. However, it is still […]
DIY Tire & Barrel Pig Feeder
There is a reason why in elementary school, the greedy kids are often labelled ‘greedy pigs’. These animals can eat and just won’t stop eating […]
DIY Bee Bath
Who says bees don’t need a bath or even a drink of water? Over the last couple of months I have been doing a lot […]
DIY Plastic Bucket Goat Grain Feeder
Bring out the plastic buckets, we have a simple diy project for you today. Having already featured many different goat hay feeders such as the […]
DIY Rain Barrel Chicken Dust Bath
The mites certainly do love to bother your chickens. We have already built the diy wood pallet chicken dust bath and the diy old tyre […]
DIY 5 Gallon Rabbit Waterer
If you didn’t know, now you know we are raising rabbits on the homestead. We have already built the diy old baby crib rabbit hutch […]
DIY Rain Gutter Chicken Waterer
The girls always need they water, and they prefer it to be as clean as possible. I have tried various designs from the diy vinegar […]
5 Best Duck Breeds For Eggs
With a quack quack here and a quack quack there, that is a sound you have to get used to when you are raising ducks […]
DIY Water Jug Chicken Feeders
Show me a chicken farmer who hasn’t tried different feeders or waterers, and I will smack them hard on the head. In fact, just forward […]
Homemade Molt Meatloaf For Chickens
Can you imagine if every fall we humans started molting just the same way hens do. All our body hair falls off, only to be […]
DIY Floating Duck House
I know you are probably thinking, don’t ducks float? Umm, yes they do but that does not mean we cannot treat them with this diy […]
DIY Bucket Feeder For Bees
Over the last couple of years experts have been telling us that bees are becoming extinct. That is why I decided to start paying a […]
5 Ways To Prevent Frostbite In Chickens
It is not only your poor little fingers and toes, that can suffer from frostbite. I remember just last winter, when we had extreme cold […]
DIY Plastic Grass Mat Scratching Post
Hey it’s natural, even us human beings need to scratch the itch every now and again. In a previous post I shared this diy gosat […]
DIY Rain Barrel Goat Kid Beds
We recently welcomed two new ‘kids’ to our homestead. Before you get any ideas, I am actually talking about goat kids not real kids kids. […]
How To Make Chicken Aprons
If you thought only chefs in the kitchen wear aprons, then you stand to be corrected. It was when I first made the diy chicken […]
DIY Electrolytes For Goats
Every now and again the animals you keep on your homestead will fall sick. It helps if you are prepared to take care of them […]
DIY Birdseed Cakes
Bird watching is something I have always enjoyed, even when I was a young girl. It is funny though that the only birds I have […]