Compost & Soil
Compost can be an excellent soil amendment in this time frame.
What is a few weeks?
Name one factor when choosing the best breed of cattle for your homestead.
What are space requirements, butcher age, amount of meat?
Name two types of dairy animals.
What are cattle, goats, and sheep?
Name two companion animals on a homestead.
What are dogs, horses, or cats?
Hens will begin to lay eggs around this time period.
What is 18-22 weeks?
Name the supplies needed for a compost bin.
What are: a container with a lid/ventilation, brown material, green material, water?
The frequency per year pigs are typically bred.
What is 2x/year?
Name three uses for milk.
What are cream, butter, yogurt, and cheese.
Name three potential benefits besides companionship of having a dog on the homestead.
What are herding, hunting, and livestock guardians?
Name two reasons you would cull (kill/remove) a bird from the flock.
What are age, injury, or temperament?
Name the main purpose/benefit of composting.
What is to add nutrients to the soil?
Pigs are: carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore.
What is omnivore?
Name one of the most popular breeds of dairy cows.
What are Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Ayrshire, and Milking Shorthorn?
Name two clues your dog is healthy.
What are a shiny coat, eating, drinking, behavior, and a moist nose?
Name the part of the chicken's body between the neck and body where food is temporarily stored until softened for digestion.
What is the crop?
Name two of the key minerals in soil.
What are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium?
According to Kaelin, a fence should be...
What is horse high, bull strong, and pig tight?
Name three fiber animals.
What are sheep, llamas, alpacas, and rabbits?
Name the most popular breed for LGDs.
What is a Great Pyrenees?
Name the term for chickens being raised for their eggs.
What are layers?
Give the green to brown parts ratio for a compost bin.
What is four parts brown to one part green?
The average American eats with amount of meat yearly.
What is 250 pounds?
This timeframe is how often sheep need to be sheered.
What is yearly?
Name the largest predator of domestic livestock.
What is a coyote?
Name three things necessary for chicks to thrive.
What are heat, water, food, clean/dry bedding?