Keeping chickens and goats together on your homestead or small farm is absolutely possible as long as you follow a few important rules and implement a few tricks. We’ve kept chickens and goats together successfully for the last two years inside our barn and I’ve learned some vital lessons along the way. In this blog post, you will learn everything you need to know when keeping goats and chickens together as well as what mistakes to avoid!
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Getting chickens out on pasture using an A-Frame chicken coop tractor is one of the best ways to give your hens access to the absolute best food. We built these A-frame chicken coop tractors to help remedy a handful of issues we kept running into when raising our hens.
My rambunctious chickens would never fail to stray a bit too far, get on the wrong side of the fence, and into our neighbors' yards. When I would open the coop door every morning, offering them their free-range freedom, I found myself checking on them every 45 minutes. It would disrupt my day, I was constantly stressed out, and the hens would always wind up into some sort of trouble. At that point, the only alternative was to keep them cooped up (hah), forbidding them access to all the wonderful things a free range chicken would have. That's where our A-frame mobile chicken coop tractor made chicken keeping a hundred percent easier! 
Today on the podcast we have Amrita Saigal, the founder of Kudos. Amrita is extremely passionate about creating sustainable alternatives that perform just as well, if not better, than their non-sustainable counterparts and, as an MIT-trained engineer and material scientist, she has taken this passion to make a real difference.
 On the blog today we have a special guest post from SafeSleeve to share with you how your mobile phone could be impacting your fertility. My husband and I struggled to get pregnant and I did a deep dive on every possible aspect of modern living that could be affecting our chances. I was shocked when I stumbled across how ELF and RF radiation could be lowering my husband’s sperm count! My husband was consistently carrying his phone in his pocket as well as setting his laptop on his lap and little did we know it may have been one of the leading reasons it took us so long to get pregnant. After realizing this could be a major issue, he started using radiation blocking technology and became much more mindful of where we stored his phone.
Enough about us though - I’m going to let SafeSleeve take it away and educate you themselves! I’ll chime back in at the end of this post and share some of my favorite SafeSleeve products as well…  If you are looking for an affordable and durable farm and garden muck boot that doesn’t break the bank, keep reading. In full transparency, for the last six years, I have been a Muck Boot Company customer, buying boots only when they have sales or discount codes. The truth is my Muck Boots have never lasted more than one year each, and forking over $100+ every year was starting to get my goat (see what I did there?).
A few months ago, I was approached by the company HISEA Boots to try out their waterproof farm boots. I’ll be frank and say I usually don’t go for product reviews because I feel like it puts me in a tough position - I’m getting paid to share something with my followers that I otherwise may not have tried. Whether we as bloggers like to admit it or not - paid promotions can (and do!) shift opinions. I am happy to say that these boots have made their way up to my top choice for farm and garden chores - and even trips into town cause they are so darn cute and comfortable! Let’s get into the details: I opted for the Women's Mid-Calf Barn Boots in Navy Plaid in a size 8. I usually run 7.5 in sizing, but I wanted to be on the safe side... 
Kelsey is back on the podcast for a fun heart-to-heart with Jill Winger of The Prairie Homestead, one of the foremost homesteading websites since 2010. Jill is a powerhouse in the homesteading community, sharing her love of living off the land with all her readers and listeners. Her practical and authentic teaching style and storytelling have won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of homesteaders across social media and through the top-ranked Old Fashioned on Purpose podcast and the best-selling Prairie Homestead Cookbook.
Opening a roadside farmstand is no small feat. When I opened my roadside farmstand I wish there was someone with all the answers to my questions, but like so much of the small farming world there’s a lot of trial and error to be had before you figure things out. That’s why I want to share with you everything I’ve learned along the way as I opened up my roadside farmstand for our farm, Green Willow Homestead.
In this first post in my farmstand series we will cover:
One of the worst feelings as a chicken owner is when you have a sick bird and you are at a loss on how to help them. An impacted crop in a chicken can be a death sentence if you don’t have the right knowledge or tools to fix the issue. Here on Green Willow Homestead, we’ve had two hens who have suffered from an impacted crop. Thanks to the encouraging words from an avian vet, some YouTube research, and my own grit - we were able to save one of the two through operating on them ourselves. In this post, I want to teach you about what an impacted crop is, the options you have to fix it, and how to successfully perform surgery on your hen in order to save her life.
Today on the podcast we have on the queen of the coop herself - Lisa Steele of Fresh Eggs Daily. Lisa has been raising chickens naturally for over a decade on her Fresh Eggs Daily Blog and shares with us all about how you can get started with your first backyard flock. We love her down-to-earth advice on using herbs and natural means to care for your hens.
If you are a seasoned chicken owner and wondering what to do with all those excess eggs then Lisa's new cookbook The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook is full of delicious and fun recipes for you. Not to mention it's 45% off right now. This cookbook has become a staple in my kitchen and I especially love that the index offers recipes by the amount of eggs you have on hand! My personal favorite is the Boston Creme Pie recipe. That pie turns out beyond delicious and incredibly decadent. Lisa was and continues to be so generous with her knowledge and insight on chicken care - be sure to tune in 
Breeding your dairy goats is the first step towards your farm or homestead’s first batch of fresh, healthy, raw goat's milk. But what many beginner goat owners don’t realize is you have to learn how to detect when your goat is in heat before you breed her. With most goats, the window for their standing heat cycle is 12-24 hours, and to the untrained eye, it can be extremely challenging to know when that window of time has happened! In this blog post, I will share with you all the tips and tricks on how to know when your goat is in heat so you can breed your goats successfully.
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