Category: Pets and Livestock

Keeping livestock is a lot of fun, but it can get noisy. After all, animals make a lot of fun (and crazy) noises. Depending on where you live, it's important to know how to help keep them quiet, or...

We've loved having chickens in our backyard. But we've wondered about their diets and if we could take things to the next level - while also giving our chickens a much more natural and sustainable...

When one of my friends first learned that we had chickens, she was equal parts excited (about scoring some fresh eggs) and worried (that chickens were a hot, noisy mess of an egg-laying pet. I knew...

Raising goats can be a ton of fun - but is there a dark or smelly side to goats, poop, and hygiene? Thankfully, the answer is mostly no! But if you're a backyard homesteader who's considering goats,...

Raising sheep is still a purely theoretical thing at our house. Even so, I'd like to make sure I know what I need to. And a commonly asked question about raising sheep is deceptively simple. Can...

While researching alpacas, it's pretty common for folks to wonder if they can live with pigs. And since nobody has done this research yet, I thought it was time I did it. So, can alpacas live with...