How to Build an Automatic Watering Tube for Your Chickens
When we got our chickens back in March I was looking forward to so many things about having them in our yard. From the eggs we would be eating to the benefits of having them scrounge through our garden...
View ArticleRaising Goats: Perfect Survival Livestock?
Goats can supply milk, meat, hides for clothing and be a work or pack animal if needed. It's time to look at what the goat has to offer and why I think it is better than a cow.
View ArticleSurvival Homesteading: Crop Production and Storage for Livestock
One of the hardest cords to cut for homesteaders is dependence on commercial feeds. However, I’ve put together some ideas for root vegetables that can cut some of our feed bills and feed dependency and...
View ArticleAlternative Feeds for Livestock
Having some backup ideas and methods in place as alternate feeds is rarely a bad thing, especially if we’re counting on meat rabbits and chickens, eggs, and milk in a collapse or Great Depression...
View ArticleRaising Rabbits: One Size Fits All Prepper Solution?
Rabbits truly are the “one-size-fits-all” preppers domestic livestock and after reading the reasons why raising rabbits could be ideal for any prepper, we think you will agree.
View ArticleWhat We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us – Livestock Edition
Livestock keeping requires some research. It seems obvious, but it’s apparently not.
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood for Preppers
Managed Livestock Breeding Livestock keeping is one of the things that those interested in self-sufficiency regularly end up considering. There are factors involving breeding, especially, that can...
View ArticleStacking Functions: Increasing Yields & Decreasing Labor with Multi-Function...
Stacking functions is a quick term for the concept of planning things (elements) and areas (space) to perform the most services for us.
View ArticleStacking Functions: Increasing Efficiency with Multi-Function Spaces
Analyzing homestead elements for multi-functionality and redundancy were covered in the first article. This time we’ll look at combining them into multi-function spaces.
View ArticleWinter Prepper Project Ideas – Outdoors
There’s a lot that winter (or early spring) can tell us about our properties, both for planting decisions, siting various things around our property, and for mitigating some of the weather that comes...
View ArticleHorsepower For Preppers – Quickfire Intro
Periodically preppers and prepper fiction bring up hoof stock as options for A Bad Thing that removes electric and combustion engines. It’s really only been 100-150 years since equines and bovines were...
View ArticleSelf-Sufficiency Superstars – Pickin’ A Chicken
Editors Note: Another article from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. Think you know everything there is to know about preppers preferred livestock to raise, maybe, but you will know much more by...
View ArticleRaising Chickens: Breeding Resilience with Broody Hens
Editors Note: Another article on chickens from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. If you have information for Preppers that you would like to share then enter into the Prepper Writing Contest with a...
View ArticleTruth-Checking Chickens – Broody Hens v. Sandbaggers
The faithful chicken is a common choice for preppers and homesteaders. Once the bird bug bites, talk regularly turns to breeding and natural rearing, the dual frustrations that can be a broody bird,...
View ArticleSimple Steps to Raising Healthy Backyard Chickens
Editors Note: An article from Claire Woods of The Happy Chicken Coop to The Prepper Journal. A source used by our own R. Ann Parris. If you have information for Preppers that you would like to share...
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