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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4113657" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>What's it like? How are the returns? My plan for the future goes like this: buy some land, wife wants to start small, but maybe we can make what I want happen. We'll have to see. But regardless, our next home will be somewhere with the space for a few chickens, a few ducks, a few goats, a pig or two, the dogs, and maybe a few goats and a beehive or two? More or less I view it as being a training ground for a larger operation down the road. I figure If I can learn about these smaller animals and figure out how to balance my life out to where everything is sustainable before eventually buying a big piece of land and having a small farm. Figure out what is useful, what I like and dont like. </p><p></p><p>So I'm open to suggestions about pigs as well. Never had pigs. I figure we're talking like one or two just to fatten up and slaughter.</p><p></p><p>Those of you who have goats, how much work do they take? I understand you gotta milk them every day, what do you do with all that milk? I don't drink milk, It makes me sick. But I can eat some cheese or small amounts of yogurt. Anybody raise meat goats? Sell juvenile goats? I don't want a lot to start, maybe a buck and two or three does/nannys/whatever they're called. Gonna be working full time and raising a family while I'm doing this.</p><p></p><p>Was looking at Boers, but I would love to figure out how to get a hold of a few Damascus Goats and would likely raise them for milk/meat and to sell offspring, as they're not very common in the US. They're also uglier than sin, so I figure they would scare off any predators or nosey neighbors.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]409274[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]409275[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]409276[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>On the bright side, they're pretty cute as kids, so I could probably sneak them past the wife then.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]409278[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 4113657, member: 35036"] What's it like? How are the returns? My plan for the future goes like this: buy some land, wife wants to start small, but maybe we can make what I want happen. We'll have to see. But regardless, our next home will be somewhere with the space for a few chickens, a few ducks, a few goats, a pig or two, the dogs, and maybe a few goats and a beehive or two? More or less I view it as being a training ground for a larger operation down the road. I figure If I can learn about these smaller animals and figure out how to balance my life out to where everything is sustainable before eventually buying a big piece of land and having a small farm. Figure out what is useful, what I like and dont like. So I'm open to suggestions about pigs as well. Never had pigs. I figure we're talking like one or two just to fatten up and slaughter. Those of you who have goats, how much work do they take? I understand you gotta milk them every day, what do you do with all that milk? I don't drink milk, It makes me sick. But I can eat some cheese or small amounts of yogurt. Anybody raise meat goats? Sell juvenile goats? I don't want a lot to start, maybe a buck and two or three does/nannys/whatever they're called. Gonna be working full time and raising a family while I'm doing this. Was looking at Boers, but I would love to figure out how to get a hold of a few Damascus Goats and would likely raise them for milk/meat and to sell offspring, as they're not very common in the US. They're also uglier than sin, so I figure they would scare off any predators or nosey neighbors. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Damascus-Goat.jpg"]409274[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="damascus-goat-close-up.jpg"]409275[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="DleV153XcAAvo_H.jpg"]409276[/ATTACH] On the bright side, they're pretty cute as kids, so I could probably sneak them past the wife then. [ATTACH type="full" alt="8a55762ef1f05c5a4a129ce8f9d83e93.jpg"]409278[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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