I've Never Been This Real the Emotional Part of Raising Livestock

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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I've never shared like this before on a podcast, warning, you will hear me cry. But it's important that anyone raising animals knows what to expect, the emotional side of livestock (including butcher day though this story is about the birth of a calf the mother rejected and what unfolded), along with my personal story of losing a baby due to a tubal pregnancy. My goal is you will find beauty among the hard and be left with hope.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 270.
1:28.8	Today's episode I'm going to try to get through without getting choked up or crying.
1:39.3	So just prefacing this with that.
1:44.0	But I think that today's conversation is a very needed one,
1:47.4	especially if you plan on homesteading
1:50.9	with any type of livestock or animals.
1:55.0	But especially with livestock and if you plan on being able to breed back
2:00.1	that livestock so that you have a renewable source of food.
2:05.2	So that could obviously be chickens, it could be pigs, it could be beef cattle, it could be dairy
2:09.4	cattle, it could be goats.
2:10.8	I think you get the general picture.
2:13.0	Today specifically, we are going to be talking though about our beef cattle and herd and
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