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Pick an animal or bird for its own feed, meat, eggs, milk, breeding, cost and medical calculators — or pick a crop for canning, freezing and drying.
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Choose an animal or bird. You’ll get the calculators that animal needs — feed or hay, meat or eggs or milk for your family, breeding, cost per pound and medical.
Animal types you add yourself (ox, mule, llama…) show up here when you’re logged in.
Food preserving calculators
Choose a vegetable or fruit to see whether it can be canned, frozen or dried, the USDA process time for your altitude, and how many jars, canner loads and pounds you need for your family.
Wild violets
Canning
Make violet jelly with a tested recipe.
Freezing
Doesn’t freeze well — the texture breaks down.
Drying / dehydrating
Condition dried food in a closed jar for a week, shaking daily, before long-term storage.
Figures are typical estimates to plan with — change any number to match your own animals, breeds and prices. Always follow the label and your veterinarian for medicines, and the current USDA guide (nchfp.uga.edu) for canning.
Plan From Your Family's Table
Start with what your family eats — pounds of meat a week, eggs, milk, jars on the pantry shelf — and the calculators work backward to how many animals to raise, how much feed and hay to buy, what it costs per pound, and how many pounds to grow and put up. Every number is a typical starting figure you can change to match your own animals and prices. Members also see their own harvest totals beside the canning calculators.