Category : [05-Animals]

Information and tools for all homestead and farm animals

Thrifty Chicken Breeds: Efficient Producers of Eggs and Meat on the Homestead (Permaculture Chicken Book 3)

Barakah Farm StaffApril 14, 2021November 30, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffApril 14, 2021November 30, 2018068

Do you want your chicken habit to pay for itself?Many backyard chicken keepers are surprised to learn that they spend more on store-bought feed than...

[05-Animals]

Why Goats are the Ultimate Pack Animal

Barakah Farm Site StaffMarch 24, 2021March 5, 2021

by Barakah Farm Site StaffMarch 24, 2021March 5, 2021097

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[05-Animals] [08-Our Farm] Goats

Fainting Goat Kids Now For Sale

C. H. EastmanJanuary 5, 2021February 2, 2021

by C. H. EastmanJanuary 5, 2021February 2, 20210272

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[05-Animals] [08-Our Farm] Events & Workshops Horses

Horse Activities At Barakah Heritage Farm

C. H. EastmanJune 25, 2020June 26, 2020

by C. H. EastmanJune 25, 2020June 26, 20200198

All of our lessons and experiences conform to current PA Covid19 guidelines. We incorporate safe distancing, disinfection of equipment, face masks, and keep groups very...

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Camp or glamp at Barakah Heritage Farm!

C. H. EastmanJune 21, 2020

by C. H. EastmanJune 21, 20200293

You can vacation on a working homestead and horse farm! Spend the night or weekend or longer at our campsites or in our Glamping Loft. You...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

Barakah Farm StaffMay 10, 2020November 30, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffMay 10, 2020November 30, 2018075

A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

Design and Use a Chicken Tractor

Barakah Farm StaffApril 1, 2020November 30, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffApril 1, 2020November 30, 20180118

Chickens in a confined coop can end up living in an unpleasant dust-bowl, but allowing chickens to free-range can result in chickens getting into gardens...

[05-Animals] [06-Systems] [08-Our Farm] Business-Income Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Fencing

Barakah Farm’s Un-heritage Muscovy Ducks

C. H. EastmanMarch 29, 2020March 29, 2020

by C. H. EastmanMarch 29, 2020March 29, 20200231

[Viewer caution: Some of the resource videos contain music and/or uncovered women] Our farm normally works with heritage and heirloom varieties. We made an exception...

[05-Animals] [08-Our Farm] Editor's Picks Health & Alternative Medicine Horses

The Healing Of Horses by Barakah Farm owner Carrie Eastman

C. H. EastmanJanuary 16, 2020January 16, 2020

by C. H. EastmanJanuary 16, 2020January 16, 20200145

The Healing Of Horses: A guide for mental & physical equine wellness using energy-based diagnosis, healthy environment and balanced chemical-free nutrition. It’s here. After writing...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Beekeeping Resources

Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives: A Complete Guide to Apiculture

Barakah Farm Site StaffDecember 22, 2019November 14, 2018

by Barakah Farm Site StaffDecember 22, 2019November 14, 20180400

Learn natural beekeeping from Europe's foremost beekeeping authority. Georges de Layens, inventor of the world's most popular horizontal hive, shares a lifetime of experience on...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, Homestead (3rd) Edition

Barakah Farm Site StaffNovember 27, 2019November 14, 2018

by Barakah Farm Site StaffNovember 27, 2019November 14, 2018075

Chicken Tractor The Homestead (3rd) Edition This is the book that tells you how to integrate small flocks of poultry in with family food production....

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

Chickens & Their Coops 2017 Wall Calendar

Barakah Farm StaffSeptember 29, 2019

by Barakah Farm StaffSeptember 29, 2019068

All sorts of city dwellers are raising chickens: animal lovers prize them as pets, locavores and Slow Food enthusiasts dig the fresh eggs, and environmentalists...

[05-Animals] Editor's Picks Goats Health & Alternative Medicine

Goats & Parasites – Excerpt from The Energetic Goat by Carrie Eastman

C. H. EastmanMarch 7, 2019

by C. H. EastmanMarch 7, 2019096

Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman,...

[05-Animals] Editor's Picks Goats

The Energetic Goat – Transitioning Goats To Chemical-Free Management

C. H. EastmanFebruary 17, 2019February 17, 2019

by C. H. EastmanFebruary 17, 2019February 17, 2019066

The Energetic Goat was published a couple years back. I have been pulling some of the most useful sections out and summarizing them to help...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

Permaculture Chicken: Incubation Handbook

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 25, 2019February 4, 2019

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 25, 2019February 4, 2019073

The Permaculture Chicken Incubation Handbook walks beginners through perfecting the incubating and hatching process so they can enjoy the exhilaration of the hatch without the...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Fowl Resources

A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store’s Guide to Chicken Keeping

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 17, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 17, 2018077

Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Resources

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh … Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 15, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 15, 2018091

Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Beekeeping Resources

Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

Barakah Farm StaffNovember 26, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffNovember 26, 2018073

Modern beekeepers - take notice! Here we have the answer to one of the most common questions related to beekeeping: what do I do with...

[05-Animals] [06-Systems] Goats

Permaculture Goats? | Putting Goats To Work Clearing Pasture

Barakah Farm StaffNovember 11, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffNovember 11, 20180101

We finally get to move our Nigerian Dwarf and Nubian goats to our upper pasture where they are being PUT TO WORK! Could this be...

[05-Animals] [07-Various] Beekeeping Resources

Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, 2nd Edition

Barakah Farm StaffNovember 4, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffNovember 4, 2018085

Today's beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a fact that is now front-page news with the spread of "colony collapse disorder." Newly introduced pests like varroa and...