Make friends with vultures.

A ewe with a lamb to defend may be startlingly aggressive. Always work in pairs.

You will not believe how much gross stuff you can handle until you've been farming for a couple years.

Farming will sound like a great idyllic life until January. Or a hurricane.

Once a raccoon figures out it can get into your coop and eat your chickens, it will keep coming back until you don't have any chickens.

Learning to do a good regulation rugby tackle will serve you in good stead when you need to catch a particularly wily goat.

You can get almost anyone to come help you with chores once. If someone comes back more than once they're a gift from God.

Sometimes there will be an individual animal you just can't eat. That's ok. Humans are complex.

Chickens love to dust bathe. If they live in confinement this dust includes their fecal matter. Don't get live chickens near your mouth.