What livestock do you love and wish you had found earlier

Yup Rose, thats what I do also. I Hoped to find 3 pigs at the sale Sat. Didnt happen. They got another sale much closer this Thurs, and every Thurs, that almost always has hogs and pigs. The cuteist I think is the Red Hamps, but there hard to find. My small garden 15 X 30 is panneled hog tight, and close enough to make feeding and watering easy. Just got to put in a cover over their heads. I use to use an old water barrel that was big holding 500 gal, and I cut it long ways. One end was already gone when I first got it. BUT, now I keep my garden tiller, and my new tiller, the tiny one, cant think of the name in it, so I got to do something else. Mantis tiller. Big A hasant got me yet, nearly LOL

I can't say that I wish I'd found them sooner, because I've had them nearly all my adult life, but the two I wouldn't be without are chickens and dairy goats. If we had more land I'd add sheep (for wool and meat) to that list.

Kathleen

We aren't allowed to love any livestock here.

The state has laws against that sort of thing.

I love my Nigerian Dwarf goats. So easy to work with and they are the first animal I can play with that I am not allergic to. Once they start milking they will more than earn their keep, but I do love my fresh eggs everyday too. My feeder pig is so hilarious, he eats all my freezer and refrigerator throw outs! He definitely steals my frugal heart with lots of good meat in October!

Just shows to go ya, Bill. Everyone is different, every homestead is different, and what works for one is a headace for another, hey?
Personally, I love cows. LOVE everything about them. But I don't have any right now, wish I could.

I have a love/hate relationship with cows. I love milk cows, especially Jerseys, Gurnseys, Brown Swiss. But dont like range cows. I shouldnt be like that, but as a kid and young man I fought them ALL when the water gates would flood out. I now know how I could have stopped that, but didnt know it then. But the milk cows seemed almosa appologetic, kinda like,9 Were so sorry, but we always follow them, and when they went out, we just did too. We wish we hadnt made you mad)while the rainge cows seemed to say (HA, Worked your sass off getting us rounded up didnt we, Well, we know somma your tricks , and when we get out again, youll really see something. Say, you heard when the next big rain is??)

I don't think anyone has mentioned hogs. We did two last year and they tilled, weeded, and fertilized the garden, then made BBQ, bacon, pork steaks, breakfast sausage, brautwurst, italian sausage, salt pork, ribs, and on. The only complaint was my wife thought they were ugly!

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The first herd of goats I bought. Each one of them left exactly 4 hoof prints on the ground inside the fence when I unloaded them from the truck, and then I learned a valuable lesson about goats and electric fences.

I spent most of Saturday evening and a good portion of Sunday morning looking for them. I sure wish I had found them before all my neighbors passed by on their way to church as I was rounding them up and loading them back in the truck.

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