From past posts, I imagine you are all au fait with the likes of chicken maths and then chick maths. This my friends is a totally different story all together. This is egg maths. It all stared with red mite which are pesky little critters who feast off the skin of hens. It ended up … [Read more…]
Are you sick of sitting behind a desk all day? If you work a desk job, keeping fit takes all the more effort, and those dreaded trips to the gym can cut right into your precious free time! It goes without saying that you get far less exercise in an office than you do working … [Read more…]
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash If you own a farm, you know how important it is to have hay. Hay has many uses. The most common way it is used is as food for farm animals. Farms need to store hay bales in their barns for edible emergencies or long winters when green … [Read more…]
How many divorces have started with moving sheep? As a farmer’s wife, I am an easy target for anything and everything that goes wrong when moving animals. It rains. It’s my fault. I am standing nowhere near the animals and they won’t go in the gate. It’s my fault. Can you see a pattern emerging? … [Read more…]
When you run a farm, you need to make sure that you are taking the safety of you and your employees extremely seriously. There are a lot of risks for safety when it comes to running a farm, and this is the case whether you have livestock or not. In this article, we’re going to … [Read more…]
https://unsplash.com/photos/IQVFVH0ajag No matter who you are or what you do, planning for the future is essential. These plans give you and your family the confidence and the peace of mind that everything will be okay. Even if it doesn’t always work out how you expected, you can at least fall back on your … [Read more…]
https://unsplash.com/photos/hBuwVLcYTnA Nowadays, more and more project managers are tasked with managing remote teams. Businesses are increasingly outsourcing work so that they can benefit from the best talent, irrespective of where in the world the person is based. While technology today makes this possible, there is no denying that there are unique difficulties associated with … [Read more…]
Say you’ve been homesteading, and you have gone from backyard chickens to goats or other small livestock. You have decided you like this farming thing. Now you want to take the next step and start to grow food that you can sell at a farm stand or market as a side gig or maybe even … [Read more…]
Photo by Elijah O’Donnell from Pexels If you’re starting to get into farming and raising your own livestock, you might be wondering what type of animals are the best and easiest to keep for a beginner. The first place to look into is the needs of each breed and type of animal. … [Read more…]
It’s that time of the month again to have a look at what the siblings have been up to the last month. Even though they had only been in school for a few weeks before the Easter holidays began, I think they were all tired and in need of a break. We are lambing so … [Read more…]
