All this talk about beekeeping gave me the idea to extend the topics of discussion for this tribe.
What do you Raise and why?
Ive personally never had any animals outside of pets like cats, dogs, lizards, rabbits, and rats.
I would love to beekeep, raise goats, chickens, Alpacas, quail, emus (or relatives), pigs, rabbits, and whatever else I can. I love animals. I think i would have a hard time raising them for meat, i just cant pictures myself killing them and butchering them. I guess if i had to I could.
So, what do you raise? have you raised? do you want to raise?
What do you Raise and why?
Ive personally never had any animals outside of pets like cats, dogs, lizards, rabbits, and rats.
I would love to beekeep, raise goats, chickens, Alpacas, quail, emus (or relatives), pigs, rabbits, and whatever else I can. I love animals. I think i would have a hard time raising them for meat, i just cant pictures myself killing them and butchering them. I guess if i had to I could.
So, what do you raise? have you raised? do you want to raise?
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:00 PMAh ! dreaming of self sustainability in retirement.....
lovely notions of free-range organic beef and chickens.
Alas...but pipe dreams at this point.
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:07 PMI am a vegetarian since 1990 -
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:34 PMThats wonderful, 16 years. Kind of off topic but if i may ask, why did you become a vegetarian.
I was a vegetarian for two years.
I still dont like alot of meats. And I dont like non-organic meat. -
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:49 PM2nd time my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer we changed our diets -
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:55 PMThats so wonderful that you changed your diet for her like that. -
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 4:02 PMit may have her helped live longer,was not such a bad change lots of things i don't miss i grew up on ranches so i was always around horses and cattle
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Thu, February 23, 2006 - 2:22 AMA
1. I like goats as people. They are stabilizing and sane.
2. Their poop can be directly applied to the crops, like rabbit poop.
3. A cow produces just too much milk for one family. In the old days you could sell the excess, but that is no longer legal unless you are a qualified dairy, which involves so much trouble that you have to become a big operation. Under these constraints, a goat produces a more reasonable amount.
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Chickens - I just can't stand the chicken meat and eggs they have at the market. Chickens are very different from goats. Chickens are little dinosaurs.
