My dreams and nightmares revolved around animals (and still do). My favorite places to go were places with lots of animals. Love for Animals & the Natural WorldĪs a child I was absolutely obsessed with animals. Thank you Rose for starting this challenge, we are so excited to be a part of it. This challenge was started by Rose from Wholesome Roots Homestead on YouTube to connect the homesteading community and explore the different reasons why we have chosen this lifestyle. The video was made in response to a challenge from a couple different homesteading channels on YouTube. If you’d like to know more, you can read more about raising rabbits.As usual, this post goes along with the video above. Rabbits are a fun animal to raise for meat as a beginner.
The most difficult part of raising rabbits is determining their gender, but you’ll get the hang of it.
They provide a quick and hearty meat provision. With a gestation period of about a month, cull date as early as 8 weeks depending on the breed. They’re also the best introduction to raising mammals for beginners. Rabbits are some of the best beginner farm animals and great small farm animals. Needless to say, I’ve ended up loving our rabbits and with the help of this book, I got pretty good at it! With that role came the caretaker of the rabbits. I took on the role of full-time-homesteader and find-out-how-to-do-all-this(er). In the beginning, I didn’t want anything to do with raising rabbits for meat because they were pets as a child. Well, I guess my husband chose to raise them. Rabbits were the first farm animal that we chose to raise as beginners.
#Hobby farm vs homestead free
If you want to know more about raising ducks, read this post “ A Quick Start Guide to Raising Ducks” by The Free Range Life. Welsh Harlequins are a smaller breed of duck, so if you’re looking for more meat you could choose a Pekin. We raise Welsh Harlequins and they are beautiful, naturally flightless and calm birds. You can also sell duck eggs for more than chicken eggs for many reasons. They’re great foragers, making them some of the best livestock for beginners.ĭucks, like chickens, give you eggs and meat. If you give them a plot of land to graze on, they won’t need too much pellet feed. We inherited them and it turns out that they’re one of the best farm animals to raise if you’re a beginner!Īlso great hobby farm animals, ducks rarely get sick and they’re so easy going. #2: Ducksĭucks weren’t an animal we thought of raising when we bought our homestead.
So eventually I’ll be choosing which hurts worse – a bee sting or a henpeck. I have dreams of having honey bees one day and I plan to raise them near our chickens. Wear some long sleeves and you’ll be fine! It hurts a little to be pecked by a chicken but not too bad. You’re the boss, and if you act like it, they’ll know it. The best advice is to be confident with your animals as a beginner. That friend showed me a few things about chickens, which helped.
#Hobby farm vs homestead how to
When we started homesteading, we inherited a flock of grown hens and I was terrified.Ī family friend came down to help with a few home improvement projects (and teach me how to use a screwdriver…). And you do not need to be afraid of them! I say that because I was. Additionally, you can also feed them scraps, weeds, etc.Ĭhickens are some of the best small farm animals to have. You can save money on feed by fermenting it and sprouting fodder. There are still ways to decrease expenses when raising chickens. They’re multipurpose, providing eggs, meat and fertilizer making them great for beginners. Because of this, they’re also one of the best hobby farm animals to raise. Raising chickens is inexpensive to do and one of the easiest farm animals to have on a small farm.
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