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I know everyone has different opinions and I’m open to all of them. I’m live in Northwestern Wi so the climate is different then Florida’s. I’m wondering what are the best homestead animal breeds for the ones I list below. I will need them cold hardy. Pigs, Dairy Cow, Pet Goats and Dairy Goats...

So I have some polish that get picked in by the other hens and I was wondering if I can put my pet rabbits and polish chickens together?

So I am in the future planning to have a coop separate for egg color genetics. This is kinda what I’m thinking and tell me if I’m on track or what I should add or take out. I want a ameraucana rooster to breed with my ameraucana hens along with olive egger hens and marans. Is that a good set to...

So sometime in the future I’m interested in getting red golden pheasants. I have a couple of question ingenral first - How much do you sell the eggs or chicks as? - Are they easy to raise or tricky? - How is the best way to raise them? Like enclosure ideas or coops. - What is the ration from...

I watch: - Appalachian Homestead - Arms Family Homestead - Art and Bri - Justin Rhodes - Roots and Refuge Farm - Elliot Homestead - Cog Hill Family Farm - Becky’s Homestead - Just a few acres farm - Weed Em and Reap - Jill Weinger Homestead Who do u all watch? These are who I watch...

How many acres is a good amount to homestead? I would be having couple cows and pigs, rabbits and quail, turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese. I will be having also horses and goats and cats and dogs. I think 15-20 acres would be good plus a garden and orchid

So what’s everybody thought on emus? what do u feed them? what should their shelter be like in cold climates? Are the mean? Is a boy or a girl nicer? should I raise one or two? What animals do they get along with?

What bantams do well in colder weather? what bantams do well with standard size chickens? I have not rooster FYI. what bantams chickens are friendly. thoughts???

Does anybody have turkeys as pets? What breeds work the best? what breeds are good for thanksgiving? can u have a breeding stock then hatch there eggs, raise them poults up and butcher? Or will it take to long?

These are more specific questions but any help will help me Can a Salmon Faverolle rooster which is 8 lbs can he breed a Cochin which is 10 lbs? Will the eggs be fertilize? Can a buff Orpington rooster breed a buff Brahma? Will the eggs be fertilize? I just didn’t know having a average size...

I’m looking for the breeds below around Northwestern Wi Marans, Cochin Silkies

Hey y’all. I don’t know about you guys but I love my Light Brahma rooster. He was 8 and 1/2 months old. And today when I went out at 12 there happy to seem me. And come running. Then I go back out at 4 to do chores and he’s laying their dead. No bite marks or scratch’s everything looked good...

Is it common to go broody while in a bad molt? Or in 20 degree weather? My hen is in a bad molt and is sitting in the nesting box on eggs but I took them and I put fake eggs there. She pecked me when I went to get the eggs and she is just sitting there it started this afternoon. She is never...

My chicken is molting bad and it’s her first time. She is with 7 other chickens. She is almost bare. What do I do?

This morning when I went out to my coop everybody was fine. Then when u came out for chores I found one of my hens have a bloody comb some fresh blood and some dried, it’s all on my feeder. She is on the top of the pecking order. What happened. Help me. What do I do

This is Ariel my 6 month old light Brahma hen. She is so sweet. If y’all don’t know light brahmas have feathers on there feet. I did deal with scale leg mites in the past with my grandma chickens but now since I have a flock of my own I haven’t had to worry. To me these don’t look like scale leg...

What does everybody have for a homestead set up? - like how many acres - what animals - what do u plant - do you can or freeze? - what’s your favorite about homesteading

When does chickens molt. We are entering our cold weather in Wisconsin. And my one hen is loosing lots of feathers she is a year and half, beautiful black sexlink. I haven’t seen anybody pick on her and she isn’t bleeding. She still lays eggs and she runs like the wind for scraps and scratch...

So this morning the tempature was 49 degrees, so not to cold in Wisconsin. My coop has 7 hens and my lovely rooster. When i let them into their run today, i noticed the my rooster has something black on his comb that was just on the tips and twords the back of the comb? What could the be? I...

What breeds are considered cold hardy? What’s the ratio for girls to boy? What feed do u give them when there little till there adults?