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5 Tips for Milking – For the First-time Milker

By Jen Sharpin 4 Comments

5 Tips for the First-time Milker | The Easy Homestead (.com)

Welcome to the cool-kids milking club… Yep. If you are reading this, you are no doubt, about to join the milking club by bringing a goat or cow onto your homestead, right? Right. Well, not to long ago I was right where you are. I was googling ‘how to milk’, ‘tips for milking’, ‘milking supplies’, ‘how… 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, Homesteading, How to / DIY

Dear Amanda- A Letter to the Stranger That Changed Our Lives

By Jen Sharpin 6 Comments

Dear Amanda, A Letter to the Stranger that Changed Our Lives | The Easy Homestead (.com)

Dear Amanda, How can I ever repay you for your generosity? How can I even put into words what you have done for my family? I remember receiving your email like it was yesterday… As a matter of fact, I remember every moment down to the last detail. I had prayed before bed, as I… 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, Homestead Reflections, Homesteading, Raising Kids

Fermented Chicken Feed

By Jen Sharpin 15 Comments

I swear it’s like I’ve found my calling and I’ve run with it… Lately, all I seem to be doing is fermenting things like: asparagus, lemons, and sauerkraut. Fermenting is the process of lacto-fermentation. Lacto-fermentation has been around since the dawn of time, as my momma used to say! To keep it simple… Fermenting =… 

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Raising Baby Chicks- Top 5 Chicken Supplies

By Jen Sharpin 7 Comments

You just couldn’t resist buying baby chicks, could ya? Well, good news! I can’t blame ya- not one bit! We order baby chicks multiple times a year- twice for meat (Spring and Fall) and once for eggs (Spring). We like to have a mixed flock of various breeds of chickens and ducks. That way we… 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, HomesteadingTagged With: Chickens

Your Guide to Buying Meat Chickens

By Jen Sharpin 8 Comments

Oh. My. Word. I wish you were here for dinner last week… Why? I’m glad you asked. We had the most delicious chicken that we have ever eaten. Where did it come from? Well- I’m glad you asked that too. It came from our backyard. Yep. From our hard work. Family work. Homesteading efforts. And boy, were… 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, HomesteadingTagged With: Chickens

5 Reasons To Have A Cow On The Homestead

By Jenna 3 Comments

5 Reasons to Have a Cow on the Homestead | The Easy Homestead (.com)

By: Jenna from The Flip Flop Barnyard, Contributing Writer We are very fortunate to have recently acquired a family milk cow. Her name is Gertie and I just love her. What she brings to our homestead and offers to my family is just priceless. I see owning a cow on the homestead is a such… 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, Homestead Reflections, Homesteading

How To Tell If Ducks Are Laying

By Jen Sharpin 13 Comments

How To Tell If Ducks Are Laying | The Easy Homestead (.com)

There’s nothin’ like the excitement of that first egg…. Unless you’ve been waiting forever- like us.  All we want is our ducks eggs!! But patience is a virtue, right? I suppose. But sadly,  it isn’t one of mine. Ducks are awesomely awesome at hiding their eggs. So good, in fact, I just made up a saying for it (awesomely awesome)…. 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, HomesteadingTagged With: Ducks

How to Prepare for Goats – The Necessities

By Jen Sharpin 21 Comments

How to Prepare for Goats | The Easy Homestead (.com)

I know you are totally begging/stealing/kissing whatever… …to totally get goats, right? Oh, wait. Was that just me? My bad, my friends. But it’s the truth. I had been wanting goats for over two years and Mountain Man was dead set against it.  He thought there were other things that we should be concentrating on…. 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, Homesteading, How to / DIYTagged With: Around the Homestead, Goats

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