You NEED This Animal On Your Homestead

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• BA

  @bandrhomestead · 7 months ago · pinned

  I mistakenly said 6 weeks as butcher time.. when it’s closer to 8-10 weeks!

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• KA

  @KathrynRose-schultz-qs6qw · 7 months ago

  Chickens/eggs saved people during depression!

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• TH

  @thomasraney6553 · 7 months ago

  We raised rabbits when I was young. My Dad was an old country boy and taught us all about caring for and raising animals and farming/gardening . We raised all kinds of critters. We raised pigeons , bird dogs/ hunting hounds , we had pet cats, fish and grew a huge garden. When I was young I always felt it was work. At 70 years old now I miss those days. Great times indeed !

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• GI

  @ginakemple1892 · 3 months ago

  I lived on a farm when I was a kid.  Our rule was - if it is for the table, we don't name them or pet them.  It was still hard but it is how we ate.

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• MA

  @matthewmatuse8068 · 7 months ago

  "Duck water."  Genius.

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• AL

  @aliced7505 · 7 months ago (edited)

  For every other channel that does this (give the history of the world before getting to the point), I want to scream! But you really made this interesting and entertaining up to almost the 6-minute mark, when you finally divulged the animal. Anyone else would have lost me after 1 minute. Thanks for the fun video and tour of your animals.

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• MY

  @mysticashes9023 · 7 months ago

  Rabbits are great for meat of course but I found even if you don't want to process a rabbit (for whatever reason) it would still be worth it to have a pair. Use a deep litter style set up and let them cycle your compost. The love the dig and will move the compost around airrating it and their pee adds moisture. Seriously they will compost waste much faster then just a normal compost pile and with way less work. They eat the scraps/leaves/ clippings and break it down faster and they love chewing wood to keep their teeth short. So any pruning from trees they love, especially apple wood.

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• LI

  @LindaBriggs-x9s · 7 months ago

  I used to have dairy goats, love them. But I found out that letting them free range the weeds they ate flavored the milk. My children would not drink that milk. So I gathered my milk goats and fed them alfalfa and sweet feed. The milk from the other goats I&apos;d feed to my pigs. I also raised sheep for meat and wool, steers, chickens, and rabbits. <br>Plus we had an acre of garden as well as various fruit trees, apples, peaches, apricots, and pears. Plus my husband worked full time with the power company and I worked part-time as paramedic for two adjacent counties. We also grew our own wheat, alfalfa, and had many acres of pasture for the livestock and horses. I wish I still had that ranch. We sold it as both my husband and I decided to work towards our degrees and moved closer to the University. Back then there wasn&apos;t the option to utilize remote learning. Heck, we still had land-line phones back then.😂

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• LU

  @luvnotvideos · 4 months ago

  😅 I tried raising meat rabbits for a single season and FAILED miserably. &nbsp;Had no problem dressing the carcass - it was just dead flesh and bone at that point. &nbsp;But I absolutely could not kill them. &nbsp;Ended up with over a score of bunnies before an older co-worker offered to come over and dispatch them for me if he could get some of the meat. &nbsp;I ended up giving him over half. &nbsp;Kept the last frightened buck as a pet - he was so sweet and gentle. &nbsp;Yeah, I&apos;m a softie that should never raise animals for food. &nbsp;Harsh lesson learned.

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• BL

  @bluestonridgefarmstead · 6 months ago

  I&apos;ve been raising meat rabbits for over 50 years. They are a staple on my farm. <br><br>A couple things. <br>Many places DO consider them farm animals; more specifically - fur bearing animals. I run a meat rabbit group on Facebook and get viewers from all around the country who have learned this the hard way - after getting them and have to rehome them.<br><br>Rabbits DO stink. The manure, not much. However, the urine is nearly straight ammonia and smells horrible. They produce a lot of urine.<br><br>I have several types of livestock and the rabbit area needs cleaning more often than any other animal I have.

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• CH

  @Chelle778 · 7 months ago

  Those are the cutest friendliest pigs I have ever seen. I couldn&apos;t do it but bon appetit.

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• CR

  @crystaljohnson9177 · 7 months ago

  Quail are great. Pigeons are also a good meat source and their poop doesn&apos;t smell either. I also like sheep. You can get meat, milk, wool, and a lawn mowed with them. I have a small breed called shetlands. They keep the lawn down and aren&apos;t as pushy as the goats. They don&apos;t escape as much either.

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