![]() ![]() What I think you SHOULD be asking is 'what animal is my property appropriate for?' Then you can backtrack the question to figure out what critters will be most healthy and happy on what you have, or what you need to do to keep the desired animals on the space available. I think you're asking the wrong questions. This will in turn open up more space to sunlight and let more scrub grow, giving your goats more to eat. ![]() ![]() I prefer to use the thinned woods as my own personal tree farm, cutting down firewood as I need it each year. Then nothing but trees and scrub will be left and you can rotate in sheep, if you want. If it's leafy and lower than 5 feet from the ground, next winter it won't be there. Goats don't give a shit about your forest. You can bring it down to 1/4 an acre per goat if you rotate your pasture and don't mind moving them every 5 days or so. My personal rule for pasture space with goats is 1/2 and acre per goat. Sheep are wooly petri dishes on four legs, and generally adding another variable like goats just makes things worse. Not that goats are that unclean, it's just that goats are more likely to live through whatever diseases and parasites the sheep give them, but not so much the other way around. Your sheep will end up being either a money hole dedicated to veterinary costs, dead, or both. Thanks for stoping by and happy homesteading!ĭisease is always a concern when keeping goats and sheep together, 'organic' or not. Zone Maps of Asia provided by /u/encogneeto.No shaming to vegans or for animal processing.This will help keep things organized among other things. Please try and use reddit tags like, ,, , or homestead specific like, ,, etc.Be respectful and we will ban people for being icky.Try and keep post on topic, self post and blog links are okay as long as they're related to homesteading.ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, outdoor kitchens, fishing, hunting, shop projects, tractors, bush hogs, pigs, raising chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic practices, cast iron skillet, neighbor relations, frugality, 5 gallon buckets, crops, grazing, fences, lumber, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, diatomaceous earth, farmers, root cellars, smoke houses, mason jars, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, critter shelter, farm interns, wwoofers, bees, honey, wildcrafting, dairy, goats, raised garden beds, paddock shift systems, nuts, berries, vegetables, growing sweet potatoes, self sufficiency, permaculture design course, off grid, alternative building, alternative energy, wood stoves, chainsaws, wood heat, tools, welding, woodworking, green woodworking, joel salatin, red worms, sepp holzer, masanobu fukuoka, ianto evans, art ludwig, farmers markets, animal husbandry, cottage industry, outhouses, composting toilets, septic tanks, ferro cement, straw bale construction, cob building. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and it may or may not also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. Homesteading - From Wikipediaīroadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. ![]() Message the mods please include links to any posts you are referencing. ![]()
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