The Cogcast Podcast - Cog Hill Farm & Homestead

In today's Cogcast Podcast, I talk about how we got started farming by selling eggs & then starting raising meat chickens.  Also how anyone can farm, & that you do not need acres & acres of pristine pasture land to farm or be a farmer.  Always remember, no 2 farms are alike & you figure out what works best for you & your farm or homestead, & You do You!! For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our MAIN YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  The NEW Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25oqSI1NY3BWoVxF3ZLq-A For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com  

I have been asked a lot lately on what do I do to protect our smaller livestock from hawks & my answer may surprise you!  Also I have been asked to film & document a 3 day Whole Hog Intensive Workshop by Hand Hewn Farm later this month in Tennessee! For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our MAIN YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  The NEW Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25oqSI1NY3BWoVxF3ZLq-A For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

In today's Cogcast Podcast I talk about our 1st experience at processing our meat ducks.  As most know we have started a new adventure here on the farm & that is raising meat ducks & I have been trying to document that experience for everyone so that it might be helpful for someone else in the future. I will say this, there is definitely a difference in processing & butchering a duck vs a chicken, & the main thing is all of the duck feathers vs a chicken.     For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our MAIN YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  The NEW Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25oqSI1NY3BWoVxF3ZLq-A For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

In today's Cogcast Podcast I talk about how we handle feed waste with the chickens & The automatic watering system that I am planning out for the near future.....It's ALL About Time Management & Efficiency on the farm.  Because saving time means saving money!  Remember, you cannot buy time or make it...you can only just use it more wisely. For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our MAIN YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  The NEW Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25oqSI1NY3BWoVxF3ZLq-A For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

In today's Cogcast Podcast I talk about raising Meat chickens, Meat ducks, & meat Rabbits here on our Family Farm. Cornish Cross(Meat chickens) vs Pekin(Meat ducks) For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

In today's Family Farm podcast, we are talking about some homesteaders that found out the hard way that they zoning laws saying they cannot have a homestead or own livestock on their 7 acres. Life on Beagle Road YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnquPVPv2nt_0OivP0NFjUwGo Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/savethegoatsofbeagleroad For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

On Today's Cogcast Podcast, New adventure on the farm!  Meat ducks(Pekin)  We are going to try & raise meat ducks on our farm, & they just came in today!  Also, when it comes to farming or homesteading, there is so much information out there, and a lot of it will conflict with each other, & how do we handle that here oon our farm...when you read or someone tells one thing & then you read or hear the total opposite.  For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm PO Box 2204 Selma, AL 36702 coghillfarms@gmail.com

We recently processed Cornish chickens this weekend, & boy were these chickens big!  We have been raising meat chickens for 4 years now, & we pretty much got the entire process of raising them down, but this past batch of chickens were 2lbs bigger than what we are use to & we have no idea why! For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm coghillfarms@gmail.com

I recently published a YouTube video about our new Nigerian Dwarf Buck Goat this week, & I wanted to dive a little bit deeper into what we feed our goats, natural & herbal wormers, & just over health of goats, & what we do here on our farmstead.  I case you missed that video, here's a link to it: https://youtu.be/6O-T8fis-yc For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm coghillfarms@gmail.com  

Meat rabbit update, we have babies!  We have a new experiment on the farm, meat ducks, & since we have been so crazy busy, our YouTube channel has suffered a little. For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm

I have been asked a lot lately about how did I get started raising meat chickens & how do or how did I market them, so in today's Cogcast Podcast, we are going to talk just that, getting started, raising meat chickens. For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer #farm #farming #familyfarm Cog Hill Family Farm

In today's Family Farm Podcast Episode we are talking about how making the very hard decision of getting rid of the pigs has completely changed my mindset & how it's lifted so much stress off me & the farm, that I now have the extra time & energy to focus on things that I am really passionate about.  And this new focus allows me to spend that extra 10-15 plus minutes doing things I love & that extra time is the difference between a good product & a great one. Do what you love & Love what you do! For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer Cog Hill Family Farm

In Today's Family Farm Podcast, I talk about how we acquired our land that we are currently living & farming on.  Big Thanks to our sponsor, Ramhead Supply Company https://www.weknowgoats.com/ Rem for 5% off & FREE Shipping, to use Promo code CHF4 For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer Cog Hill Family Farm

I have a confession to make...I have neglected the garden!! Big Thanks to our sponsor, Ramhead Supply Company https://www.ramheadsupply.com/ Rem for 5% off & FREE Shipping, to use Promo code CHF4 For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardening Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  http://shrsl.com/11a6g Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer Cog Hill Farm

Today's Honesteading podcast is all about Rabbits! The Farm Life Big Thanks to our sponsor, Ramhead Supply Company https://www.ramheadsupply.com/ Rem for 5% off & FREE Shipping, to use Promo code CHF4 The Homestead Box, the Monthly Homestead Service: https://www.thehomesteadbox.com/ use Promo Code, coghillfarms, & This will give 10% off the first box, or 10% off a 6 month subscription. It will expire June 30, 2018. For all your Cog Hill Farm Merchandise & shirts, go to https://www.thecoghillfarm.com Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CogHillFarmJasonSmith  For the Best Gardeing Tools on the Market, Check out the guys over at Hoss Tools:  https://goo.gl/c14uFA Thanks for listening to the Cogcast Podcast, & have the Best Day Ever & Keep Dancing!!! Jason Smith- The Dancing Farmer Cog Hill Farm