I know everyone has different opinions and I’m open to all of them. I’m live in Northwestern Wi so the climate is different then Florida’s. I’m wondering what are the best homestead animal breeds for the ones I list below. I will need them cold hardy.
Pigs, Dairy Cow, Pet Goats and Dairy Goats...
So I am in the future planning to have a coop separate for egg color genetics. This is kinda what I’m thinking and tell me if I’m on track or what I should add or take out. I want a ameraucana rooster to breed with my ameraucana hens along with olive egger hens and marans. Is that a good set to...
So sometime in the future I’m interested in getting red golden pheasants. I have a couple of question ingenral first
- How much do you sell the eggs or chicks as?
- Are they easy to raise or tricky?
- How is the best way to raise them? Like enclosure ideas or coops.
- What is the ration from...
I didn’t like homesteady much myself. And Justin Rhodes to me is inspiring. Yes I don’t agree with Elliot homestead either on what they do for remodeling but she has beautiful cottage gardens
I watch:
- Appalachian Homestead
- Arms Family Homestead
- Art and Bri
- Justin Rhodes
- Roots and Refuge Farm
- Elliot Homestead
- Cog Hill Family Farm
- Becky’s Homestead
- Just a few acres farm
- Weed Em and Reap
- Jill Weinger Homestead
Who do u all watch? These are who I watch...
Yes. That’s a good idea. I want to be at lead 50% self sufficient. I’m by myself so all this will would be buy me. Plus I’m hoping to be a vet tech and have a full time job. So I’m looking for something that can handle what my needs are. That’s when I think to myself living by myself that not to...
I was thinking/goal:
2 horses: pasture and hay
2-4 pigs: a breeding stock and piglets- foraging and grain
15 goats for selling babies and milking grazing and hay with grain
4 barn cats- feed
2 dogs inside and outside-feed
10 bantam chickens- penned up with feed and 40 standard size...
2-4 cows
I have a pony and a paint
The cows will be a breeding stock that would forage most summer and raising their calf’s for butcher. They’re going to be dexter so milk or beef. And no horse babies as their geldings
How many acres is a good amount to homestead?
I would be having couple cows and pigs, rabbits and quail, turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese. I will be having also horses and goats and cats and dogs. I think 15-20 acres would be good plus a garden and orchid
So what’s everybody thought on emus?
what do u feed them?
what should their shelter be like in cold climates?
Are the mean?
Is a boy or a girl nicer?
should I raise one or two?
What animals do they get along with?
What bantams do well in colder weather?
what bantams do well with standard size chickens? I have not rooster FYI.
what bantams chickens are friendly.
thoughts???
Does anybody have turkeys as pets? What breeds work the best?
what breeds are good for thanksgiving?
can u have a breeding stock then hatch there eggs, raise them poults up and butcher? Or will it take to long?
These are more specific questions but any help will help me
Can a Salmon Faverolle rooster which is 8 lbs can he breed a Cochin which is 10 lbs? Will the eggs be fertilize?
Can a buff Orpington rooster breed a buff Brahma? Will the eggs be fertilize?
I just didn’t know having a average size...
It’s crazy how they can run up to u and then be gone the next. It happen last March to my Buff Orpington. I’m assuming it was a heart attack.
I’m getting standard size Cochin chicks so there a bigger bird. Hopefully they don’t have heart attacks