Watering animals in the winter can be a huge headache for both small-scale homesteaders and large-scale farmers, especially if you’re off-grid. Certain animals, like dairy cows, need lots of water to keep up production. Producing 10-plus gallons of milk per ...
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4 Simple Animal Traps For Off-Grid Survival
Survival snares and traps will help feed the family during a long-term disaster or simply if you’re looking to supplement the menu choices when living off the grid or on a rural homestead. Traps and snares hang, trap, crush or ...
Read More »14 Self Reliance Skills Every Person Should Have
Self-reliance is somewhat of a three-legged table. People may talk about each of the three legs separately, but they all rely on one another. What are these three legs I’m talking about? Stockpiled supplies Equipment Knowledge While stockpiling supplies and ...
Read More »How To Use EVERY Single Part Of An Animal When Butchering
As children in school we were often taught, Native Americans used every part of an animal when butchering, from nose to tail. Nothing was wasted, not even bones or sinew. In today’s world we buy our choice cuts from the ...
Read More »9 Tricks To Keep Your Garden Animal Free, Without A Fence
One of the joys of living off the grid is being able to see and enjoy sharing your property with abundant wildlife. While deer, raccoons, rabbits and other creatures are an enjoyable sight from a distance, they are another matter ...
Read More »How To Make A Deadly Critter-Killin’ Blowgun For Less Than $10
Crafting my own packable survival tools has got to be one of my absolute personal favorite hobbies, especially since they can usually be made in the garage workshop on the super-cheap. I’ve made quite a few slingshots, fishing kits and ...
Read More »Why Free Animals Are A BAD Homestead Investment
Most Free Animals Are Male Most of the animals you’ll see available for free are males. From intact buck goats and wethers to roosters, buck rabbits and drake ducks, nearly every farmer deals with an overabundance of boys from time ...
Read More »7 Simple Ways To Minimize Veterinary Costs For Livestock
It is no secret that health care is expensive. If you have animals of any kind, then you know that this fact is not limited to health care for humans, as a visit to or from a veterinarian can cost ...
Read More »The 5 Very Best Cat Breeds For The Homestead
It is said that cats were domesticated around the time humans learned to farm and store a surplus of grain. The grain attracted rodents, which attracted cats, and it didn’t take long for humans and cats to figure out that ...
Read More »The 3 WORST Animals To Eat For Long-Term Survival
Imagine this situation: You silently enter a nearby piece of woods and move stealthily along some edge cover. You take each step with care, hoping to avoid a hazardous one that would snap a twig beneath your feet and signal ...
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