Livestock on the farm

We have a small flock of laying hens that provide us lots of eggs.

My wife has 4 milk goats. We were on the fence about getting another billy or shipping the girls. Seems we are keeping them and getting a boer goat billy to breed them with

This spring we got 2 calves from the auction. We’ve never had cows before so this will be an interesting adventure.

Also this spring we got 3 wiener pigs for us to pack in the fall. We’ve done pigs a number of times and bred sows for a while. We found that there was no money in raising pigs for market. Buying all the feed and paying for a butcher left no. Profits left for us. Once it warms up and these guys get a bit bigger they will spend the summer on pasture eating scraps and the cover crop i put down for them.

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