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Featured, Finding Your Niche, Getting Started, Living the Life, Success Stories

Healthy Chickens and Housing for Maximum Profits



Healthy Chickens=Healthy Profits Healthy chickens result from careful planning. Your happy hens will lay eggs regularly which you can turn around and sell for profit. Following are the practices we implement in our flock to encourage optimal health in order to produce the most amount of eggs. Ways to save money It can be easy […]

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Day-to-Day, Getting Started, Living the Life, Success Stories

Setting Up for Successful Hatching



I’m getting excited for spring, as we’re about to start hatching season here at Pleasant Valley Farm! Each spring, the poultry help to provide a boost to our income at a time when there are plenty of expenses on the farm. And while I’ve been making a modest income for quite a few years now, […]

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Finding Your Niche, Living the Life, Success Stories

Breeding Heritage Livestock for Our Farm and the Future



Here at Pleasant Valley Farm, we raise a number of heritage breeds and try to be active in helping to conserve them as well. We like Dexter cattle because they are great homestead cows, produce a nice beef carcass, calve easily and are great mothers, are hardy, easy keepers, give a nice amount of milk […]

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Finding Your Niche, Getting Started, Living the Life, Success Stories

Heritage Breeds- What They Are, Why They Matter



Have you heard of livestock being called a heritage breed? Have you ever wondered what exactly that meant? Is it a buzzword, or something that matters? Most importantly, could they be a good fit for your homestead? Simply put, a heritage breed has been around for a long time and was generally developed in a […]

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Adapt and Overcome, Agritourism, Buying In, Living the Life, Market Yourself, Success Stories

Feed the Birds: Our Introduction to Agritourism



Agritoursim is a big word that sounds intimidating. It’s simply the idea of making your farm a destination, somewhere with something interesting to do or see beyond buying your products. Still, farm open houses, hayrides and the like can be overwhelming. Customers have suggested opening up a spare bedroom in our farmhouse as a bed […]

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Diversify, Finding Your Niche, Getting Started, Living the Life

Hatching Income with Heritage Breeds



Spring on a farm can be stressful as you try to fit everything that needs attention into the time you have available, and it’s often equally stressful to look at your bank account. It sometimes seems that all you have are expenses, with very little income before crops are ready. One way we diversify our […]

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