Feeding Farm Animals

Eggs - We all love them! If you're lucky enough to live where you can have your own chickens you can have "Farm Fresh Eggs". Unfortunately after a rain you might be in for a surprise....

If you have chickens this automatic feeder is a must have. It is simple to build, takes up very little space and holds a lot of feed. This design has worked very well for me... I mean the...

A good way to fatten your show steer is to add cooked corn. By cooking the corn, it makes it easier for your steer to digest it and they utilize every bit of it in their system. It will also work...

How do you feed a baby goat? A very common question and of course there are about as many different answers as there are goat breeders. Below is how we feed our goat kids here at Green Gables...

To feed your horse properly you should know the terminology used to describe the different feed and nutritional elements the horse will require. This is a list of some of the terminology you...

When it comes to feeding your ponies it is very important you only feed them the right food. The number one rule is the hay MUST be of good quality. Determining the quality of your hay is not...

Recently I heard on the news that the food in this country has about half the nutritional value that it had in 1960. One of the reasons I raise my own chickens is to bring back to my family at...

Feeding your 4-H or FFA project steer is not as simple as it may seem. You must stay focused on the day to day progress of your project. This is because daily feeding requirements change and...

Newly hatched chicks require a warm, dry, and clean environment. They also require fresh water at all times, as well as plenty of food. Caring for chicks seems pretty simple, but healthy chicks...

When you think of raising chickens, raising them in a traditional backyard chicken house is what you typically think as the way chickens are raised. This article will show you how you can raise...

People may wonder why anyone would want to bottle feed a baby calf, but sometimes it makes sense. On dairy farms thousands of calves are fed in this way twice a day, because the mothers are...

Hi, over the years we have used many different things to feed and water our livestock out of. Here are a few of the ideas we have used.

It is not necessarily a catastophe if a mother cow rejects its newborn calf. If you know how to bottle feed the baby, it can grow up to be an even healthier calf than the mother-fed calf.

Raising newly hatched chicks such as goslings into adult geese can be profitable, and win 4-H trophies and ribbons for your children. Goslings are expensive so you do not want to lose any from...

Whith the many uses for corn these days the price has gone up for farmers feeding there animals. If you need to supplement with feeds be smarter about how you feed your animals.

Every Easter, hundreds of chicks are delivered in baskets to new parents who usually have no idea how to feed them. Feeding baby chicks is not that tough, but it does take a bit of patience.