Livestock

Chickens

If you have chickens, you have food 

• Purchase food storage for your chickens

Rabbits

Goats

Adding dairy goats for meat, milk, hair, skin, driving, & packing.

• Goat milk is naturally homogenized Nubian Goats are best for milk
• Goat meat is good Boer Goats are the best for meat productions
• Goats are not as messy as cows
• Goats can be kept on smaller pieces of land
• Goats need companionship, so you will need more than one goat
• Goats require good fencing, because they climb.
• Goats need shelter,  especially when kidding
• Goats wear collars
• Goats usually have two kids. and can usually kid by themselves.
• Milk goats 2 or 3 times a day by hand, taking about 5-10 minutes
• Goat horns need "disbud"ing
• You will need one buck to keep milking
• Hooves need trimmed about once a month
• Goats live 10-11 years