One reader reflects on the pros and cons of letting small-livestock predators co-exist with homestead animals, including ways to predator-proof your homestead. It’s absolutely inevitable. At some ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson M.J. Ebenhack walks her two 5-year-old Pygora goats, Sadie, left, and Warren, up her driveway from Colegate Drive in Marietta. MARIETTA — Urban and rural access to the ...

Besides sturdy fencing, guard dogs are the primary tool to prevent such horrors, not just with sheep, but goats, calves, chickens, ducks, and any other livestock small enough for a predator to take ...

Tucked away behind the trees along Bendigo Boulevard in the Snoqualmie Valley, Lulu Redder and her farmhand stand underneath two canopies, processing chickens five at a time, with Redder’s two dogs ...

No reason to call in Mystery Inc.: Landon will have you shouting "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" when you see him at Heartland Small ...

Retail livestock feed supply businesses stock and sell a wide array of animal feed and other products for animal care, focusing on agricultural livestock such as cows, horses and chickens. Small feed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension has developed a pair of Web-based, interactive resources to help new producers and anyone thinking about starting a small-scale livestock operation to make ...

Pat the ewe walks around in her enclosure at Graham Fire and Rescue Station 96 in Graham, Wash. on Oct. 4, 2022. Pat was rescued by firefighters at the station after she was reported wandering around ...

If you picked up a carton of eggs at the store this week, they probably set you back about $1 or $1.50. The organic, cage-free kind costs more like $3. But some urban and suburbanites are skipping the ...