Can country boys survive with goats?

[Riggs]

 Here's a couple of pics, The first is our billie, Sampson with my kids. My daughter loves him and he is very gentle. He only stinks in breeding season. The second picture is kind of a rite of passage for our baby goats, the cow LOVES for them to walk on her, and will actually stand there and wait for them. Must feel good



 


 

 

[Norm]

Zopi I too thought I'd have meat rabbits when we moved to the farm years ago. I bought a couple of california's made up some hutches and waited for my new suppers to arrive. Soon enough we had babies and much to my surprise they were the cutest little buggers I'd ever seen. Now I don't consider myself squeamish as I've raised and butchered most farm animals. But there was just now way I could do it. I do eat wild rabbit and have no troubles with dressing them out but those domestic ones were just too hard for me.

Riggs those are some cute little ones you have. 

[Magicman]

Riggs, as many times as I have heard and used the term "Ride the Goat", your picture certainly puts a different spin on it.   

[Patty]

Such cute little darlings! Kids that have the opportunity to grow up on a farm are the luckiest of all.

[zopi]

I have similar issues..but it does not stop me.
One bunny got nippy...nipped one of the girls...nipped my wife the bit me.
Twenty minutes..fur to fried.
My daughter said no way was she going to eat that rabbit...until she smelled it coming out of the oven...he was delicious.

[Taylortractornut]

Zopi  Im building a small   IBC tote based aquaponics set up for my smaller greenhouse.      I like growing things, Just got my rabbits.     Gonna use them for my plant compost and feeding some worm bins.    I want to eventually work up to about 400 rabbits.  I have a friend that  has about 600 that he raises.   About once a month he has a   butcher come pick them up.   He makes a pretty good lick on them. 

I m about to get more chickens to go with them.     We grow most of our own feed in the form of mustard greens raddish and turnips year round.

[LA Z BOY]

A few years ago I had two Nubian does that we milked . I didn't have a buck at that time so when breeding time came around I had to take them to a buck . A friend of mine raised bottle calves & had a little toyota pickup with cattle racks . I called him up when a doe came in & asked him if he wanted to haul me & the doe several miles down the road to a buck . He said sure . We got there & put the doe in the pen with the buck & everything went as expected till we took the doe out of the pen & started back to the truck with her .
The buck jumped the fence & came after me & the doe I was leading . I handed my friend the lead rope & tackled the buck to make sure he didn't get on the highway . While I  wrasseled  ( sp ) the buck my friend got the doe on the truck & came back & helped me get that critter back in his pen . Talk about being stunk up !
About a week later my other doe came in & I called my friend again & asked him if he'd like to take another ride . He said , you can borrow my truck .  He swore he never got rid of the smell in his truck till he sold it .

[zopi]

Taylor...sounds lime a good plan...we are out of the animal business until I get this place better aquared away..just got rid of the bunny experiment..need better facilities.
Going to keep the garden going, and maybe put up a small greenhouse for starting seed, and late fall grow out. It will be a long while before I have the hothouse of my dreams.

La z boy...goat roper needs love too....