Name: Thrive! NCHE Convention
Start: 2024-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-25T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

Tagged: gardening, homesteading, raising animals

This topic has 7 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 7 months ago by Gem.

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August 28, 2013 at 11:54 am
jeaninpa
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We’re moving back out to the country and we plan to raise some animals and get back to gardening. We’ve been on a tiny lot for the last three years and we are thankful for the opportunity to have some land again. I’m searching for a Yahoo group or something similar to join to have a place where I can ask questions about raising animals. Suggestions, please?
August 28, 2013 at 12:09 pm
RobinP
Participant
My favorite online go-to is the Keeping a Family Cow website. They have a fabulous forum with knowledgable folks to find out about all things cow and any other homesteading question you might have.
keepingafamilycow.com
August 28, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Wings2fly
Participant
As a child, I wanted a cow. Now we are in the country and could have one. But then I suppose there would be no more vacations, right? Plus I wonder how much it would cost.
August 28, 2013 at 1:06 pm
jeaninpa
Participant
As a child, I had a cow — over a thousand of them actually. I really don’t need to go down that road again especially since we have a dairy where we purchase raw milk for $2/gal and is less than a mile form us.

We are getting ducks this week though and we might do chickens and meat goats. I think we’d like to avoid something that needs to be milked every day.
August 28, 2013 at 1:11 pm
RobinP
Participant
This site is so much more than cows. There are sub-sections on the forum dealing with every area of homesteading you can imagine.
August 28, 2013 at 1:12 pm
missceegee
Participant
$2 a gallon. Wow. I pay almost $10!
August 28, 2013 at 1:37 pm
jeaninpa
Participant
missceegee — I KNOW!! It’s a ridiculously good price.
RobinP — Thank you for the site — it looks wonderful. I did understand that it was more than cows, just digressing a bit I guess.
Do any of you have suggestions for animals that you’ve tried raising?
August 28, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Gem
Participant
Check out Homesteading Today and Mary Jane’s Farm for some friendly forums.
Animals – every homestead needs chickens! Great place to start 🙂 We do chickens, pigs, rabbits. We have had ducks. We grow a big market garden and I sell veggies and eggs through my small subscription based CSA. http://sunshinefordinner.com/
I wish we could have a cow but we don’t have a big fenced grassy area for her, and I have access to free raw goat milk from a relative. If we didn’t I would probably keep some milk goats. Cow milk for $2 a gallon! That is crazy cheap!
Have fun! It’s a wonderful life