Animals that don't disterb neighbors. (livestock)

[seminolewind]

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Haflingers are so sweet. Maybe one day...........

 

[sweetshoplady]

You could always get a mini horse too. They are neat! My neighbors have one and there was one where I boarded my horse when I first brought him home from PA. My neighbor's daughter drives hers down the road. Looks like loads of fun.

 

[patandchickens]

A thing about horses is that they are not all that hard to inadvertantly mess up or get them injured or sick by doing things that seemed perfectly reasonable to you at the time.

It would be a bad idea to get a horse without a considerable amount of real-life horse experience, not just riding lessons but handling and so forth, and being committed to reading and learning quite a lot about their care and health and so forth. Also their yearly vet bills will be a good bit higher on average than most of the other things on the list.

Not to sound negative, it's just that I've seen SO many horses get hurt, or seriously sick or killed, or become so behaviorally messed up that they have no realistic possibility of a happy future, when bought by people with little horse experience. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but it often does, and it's just not fair to the horse. (People can get hurt, too. Even by a mini.)

I'm still going to advocate rabbits

Pat

 

[tvtaber]

Our pygmy goats are awesome and are only noisy when we feed later than they like. You can milk them and they produce a lot for their size, but that is maybe a pint per day per goat (and you better have pretty small ahdns to milk them!). They smell like horses only not so strong, depending on the number kept in the pen. The manure is harder to clean up than a horses though!

 

[FarmerDenise]

Our neighbor has pygmy goats and they are pretty quiet. They make a pleasant bleating noise.
Our roosters are much noisier. We have bantam roosters and they are not mean, some of them are louder than others. The one that is a year old doesn't crow as much any more. The others will become dinner, just because we have too many roosters. And I don't feel like paying around $6.00 for a store bought "free range" chicken.
Our rabbit is in a large pen. We divided the dog kennel in half. It has a concrete floor and 10 foot chain link fence all around. We covered part of it with plywood and put an umbrella in the sunny part to block more sun, rain and hawk attack. Several of us can go in the pen with the rabbit at the same time and keep him company. He also gets to watch us work on the farm. He and the dog play catch games on opposite sides of the fence.

 

[miron28]

lamas are great pets, easy to take care of!

 

[Chirpy]

I raise llamas and they are completely quiet. You can hear them humming but only when you are pretty close to them. They poop in the same spots so they are easy to clean up after and they don't smell unless you don't clean up after them for a while.

They are very social animals however and have to have at least one of their own kind to be happy and healthy. So, you need to have at least two. As mentioned, I would suggest against having an intact male, unless you have two intact males or one gelded and one intact male. Do not have a female around an intact male. My friend packs with a string of 8 males (most of them are intact, a couple are gelded), they all share the same pasture and obviously pack together. They get along fantastic and are best friends... until you get them around a female (like when I brought two here at the same time to breed to my females) -- they become hard to handle, potentially dangerous raving lunatics. The two males I brought here spend every moment of every day literally trying to kill each other. I had to take one back home so the other one would even breed my females. Once they were both back home together - with no females around - they were best buddies again.

Llamas are normally very fence friendly. (Except for those intact males trying to get to a female - I watched a male jump easily over a five foot fence from a stand still.)

Llamas are easy to feed. Only give them grass hay, never alfalfa unless it's a rare treat. You can give them special llama feed or grain but don't need it unless they are pregnant or nursing.

I also have Alpine and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In comparison the NDs are far less noisy (loud) but far more vocal than my Alpines. That's just my experience. I love my goats - their incredibly outgoing, get-into-everything personalities just crack us up and make them so lovable. You can milk NDs but it certainly is more of a challenge than a full size goat just due to their small size and small teats. They do have a high milk fat content, like Nubians.

Goats are like llamas in that they are very social and also have to have the company of another animal they can play with... another goat is by far the best solution. Goats require very good, strong fencing but are very easy to care for. I also have horses and would disagree with the poster who said they are harder to clean up after than horses. My goats are far easier to clean up after than my horses. I use a shrub rake and shovel for dry ground and a pitch fork for the straw areas.

 

[seminolewind]

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I think the OP has horses already (?)

 

[seminolewind]

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I heard that pygmy goats are nice. My GF got them , lives on LINY.

 

[patandchickens]

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Nope, that's just all they're zoned for


Pat