So does anyone raise farm animals or grow their own food?

gypsyrose85
gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
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I raise Chickens :D I have tried plants but I kill them all.... 11026208_10207103799498967_8267661375487672152_n.jpg?oh=e12a0aa331d0f1eda175db7ab852348e&oe=56BF8CEC

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  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
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  • twinjamom6
    twinjamom6 Posts: 299 Member
    We have several free range chickens =eggs and grow alot of our own vegetables that get canned or frozen. Looking into meat. We do have a goat but he's a pygmy, and purely a pet.
  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    nwoodrum2011 wrote: »
    We have several free range chickens =eggs and grow alot of our own vegetables that get canned or frozen. Looking into meat. We do have a goat but he's a pygmy, and purely a pet.

    Pigs are not that bad to raise. My husbands dads side of the family all have pigs. They are relatively easy to raise. If I had the land I would have a few pigs.
  • sairsyfairy
    sairsyfairy Posts: 62 Member
    I have chickens too! We just got our first babies this May. I love them.. only have 5 but they are awesome. Would love to have other animals but we live in a suburban neighborhood.
  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    I stay in the city now, but I grew up on a small farm in Benoni, South Africa.

    We raised our own chickens and turkeys and we had a cow for milk. We had a pig but he was a pet (his name was Hamlet). The animal management was much easier than the small amount of crops we tried to raise. Disastrous! The corn withered, the fruit was infested with bugs and was bitter. All we could manage was an acceptable vegetable patch and my mother got pretty skilled around jams and yogurt. My father had a regular corporate job so my mother was just messing around with the farming as a hobby so I think she did well, all considered.

    Because of my childhood, I have a lot of respect for farmers.

    I still have the strong urge to make my own cheese, which strikes every couple of years.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    not sure if fish count, but I'm counting them:

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  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    sairsyfairy wrote: »
    I have chickens too! We just got our first babies this May. I love them.. only have 5 but they are awesome. Would love to have other animals but we live in a suburban neighborhood.
    We have 3 roosters, 14 hens, 4 chicks of unknown sex, and 2 turkeys :)

  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    not sure if fish count, but I'm counting them:

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    it counts :)
  • Wiz_Joe
    Wiz_Joe Posts: 476 Member
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  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    Soopatt wrote: »
    I stay in the city now, but I grew up on a small farm in Benoni, South Africa.

    We raised our own chickens and turkeys and we had a cow for milk. We had a pig but he was a pet (his name was Hamlet). The animal management was much easier than the small amount of crops we tried to raise. Disastrous! The corn withered, the fruit was infested with bugs and was bitter. All we could manage was an acceptable vegetable patch and my mother got pretty skilled around jams and yogurt. My father had a regular corporate job so my mother was just messing around with the farming as a hobby so I think she did well, all considered.

    Because of my childhood, I have a lot of respect for farmers.

    I still have the strong urge to make my own cheese, which strikes every couple of years.

    I would LOVE to learn how to make cheese :)
  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    joejunior04 wrote: »
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    AWWWWW i love cows :)
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    joejunior04 wrote: »
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    BEEF! It's what's for dinner!

    Grew up on a family farm. Cats for rodent control. Working Dogs for protection & herding. Horses for work & riding. Dinner was hogs, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, cows, dairy cows, rabbits. Plus a massive garden for food preservation. You name it, we ate it. In addition to domestic food, also ate what tried to steal from the garden such as wild rabbits, dove, pheasant, deer.

    Way too much hard work now, but I do enjoy supporting local farmers market. (And shopping in the grocery store!)
  • Wiz_Joe
    Wiz_Joe Posts: 476 Member
    @allaboutthecake you guys were doing it extensive; WOW!!! I would love to have horses, we have/had at different times cats, goats, cows, chicken (broilers and layers), rabbits, dogs. I wish we'd have horses thou ;) My grand parents do some community project with breed goats and they get goat milk for breakfast daily. We also plant vegetables from onions, tomatoes, pineapples, watermelons, maize and rice, all this from time to time at different parts of the farm/s. We sell and supply to the community around and other people in large. It's really nice to plant and feed on our own supplies.. It's even better to share to the people around us the excess supplies.
  • Wiz_Joe
    Wiz_Joe Posts: 476 Member
    @gypsyrose85 :smiley: I love to milk, just not a kick thou
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  • gypsyrose85
    gypsyrose85 Posts: 206 Member
    allaboutthecake wrote: »
    joejunior04 wrote: »
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    BEEF! It's what's for dinner!

    Grew up on a family farm. Cats for rodent control. Working Dogs for protection & herding. Horses for work & riding. Dinner was hogs, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks, cows, dairy cows, rabbits. Plus a massive garden for food preservation. You name it, we ate it. In addition to domestic food, also ate what tried to steal from the garden such as wild rabbits, dove, pheasant, deer.

    Way too much hard work now, but I do enjoy supporting local farmers market. (And shopping in the grocery store!)
    For me it's
    3 cats, 2 snakes, a chinchilla and my birds with 5 kiddos lol.

  • Wiz_Joe
    Wiz_Joe Posts: 476 Member
    snakes?? :o
  • tat2cookie
    tat2cookie Posts: 1,899 Member
    I have a garden. It's been lovely! Wish I could have chickens.
  • katnroyal1987
    katnroyal1987 Posts: 3,449 Member
    I used to teach high school Agriculture and my family owns a cattle ranch in central Texas where we run a couple hundred head of Angus cattle.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    We have chickens (laying and meat birds), 2 large gardens and various nut and fruits trees/bushes scattered aroudn our property. We also hunt and fish.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    Wiz_Joe wrote: »
    @allaboutthecake you guys were doing it extensive; WOW!!! I would love to have horses, we have/had at different times cats, goats, cows, chicken (broilers and layers), rabbits, dogs. I wish we'd have horses thou ;) My grand parents do some community project with breed goats and they get goat milk for breakfast daily. We also plant vegetables from onions, tomatoes, pineapples, watermelons, maize and rice, all this from time to time at different parts of the farm/s. We sell and supply to the community around and other people in large. It's really nice to plant and feed on our own supplies.. It's even better to share to the people around us the excess supplies.

    I guess I never looked at it like that. It was our way of life. Looking back on it now. We didn't purchase alot of food in the grocery store, too expensive. I remember when we got bananas it was such a treat. And we had oranges around Christmas. Food preservation is hard work. We grew everything in a garden and if it was wild (like asparagus & berries) we picked it and preserved it. We also made our own clothes. Shoes were put on the 1st day of school & kicked off the last day never to be found. My dad repaired anything that broke and if he couldn't repair it we didn't really need it that bad so it wasn't replaced.

    Thanks for the trip back memory lane. :)


  • LAMCDylan
    LAMCDylan Posts: 1,218 Member
    edited January 2016
    Been gardening for years. Right now I manage a 1.5 acre property and all the gardening on it. There's plans for chickens, a small orchard, and bee hives. I also do a little hydroponics indoors. We got wild turkeys here but we are not allowed to harm them.
  • _Sparky_
    _Sparky_ Posts: 765 Member
    I grew up on a mixed farm, dairy (cream only), Beef, Sheep, Chickens (eggs and meat) always Turkeys, now and then we would get a pig for our own food, but Mom didnt like them they would root up the yard. Nowadays I still grow all my own vegitables since I dont trust the food in the store, I know exactly what I use to grow mine and far as I'm concerned they taste far better since they have not been shipped across the country. I also have started a community festival called the Giant Pumpkin Fest which I hope is getting children interested in growing and hope they continue with it.
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    I can't raise animals then eat them. It just isn't in me

    Its barbaric
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    what a lovely thread :) As a kid I spent some of my time growing up on farm - we had cows, I had a pet goat, always have had cats and we also planted rice and beans and corn and assorted veg and fruits from memory.

    I LOVED farm life.

    Now i'm in the city and have a couple of pot plants and a cat.

    When I retire from the rat race my intention is to go back to a rural setting and once again grow some foods (probably just veg and fruit though) and have chickens and i'd LOVE a pet pig...

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