Wondering how to keep animal feed stored? Read on for just how to store animal feed to keep it secure and pest free. When you have a number of animals on your homestead farm, you have to figure out how to store animal feed. If you have enough animals, I suppose you could have a silo. You could call the feed mill and get them to deliver your feed mix and dump it right into the silo. Silos are … [Read more...]
Fodder for the Laying Hens
Here's another thing I am adding to my list of goals - producing fodder for our chickens. I have been doing some research into sprouting grains and am finding some interesting stuff. I'd like to cut down the feed bill. During the growing season, our chickens (and pigs) have their own garden here. We set aside a large area and grow lots of different vegetables for all of them to … [Read more...]
How to Grow Your Own Animal Feed
Learn how to grow your own animal feed and save thousands of dollars in feed costs. It would be almost impossible for us to grow 100% of the feed we need for our animals. But we can grow a lot of it - here's how we grow our own animal feed. Since we live in the North, we have a short growing season and a long cold snowy winter. But we do grow what we … [Read more...]