When the time comes to expand your existing fencing or install a new fence at a new place, the choices can seem overwhelming. Different animals have completely different fencing requirements, so the first step to choosing fencing is to decide what type of animals you want to keep, now and in the future.
It seems as though for every potential problem on the farm, there is an industrial or chemical solution. If your philosophies tend toward a more natural, holistic approach, you will find yourself really struggling to find alternatives to the way things are done in our modern world of labs and factories. Choosing to run your farm holistically, while far more challenging than the other way, is infinitely worth it in terms of health and good stewardship.
If you are getting started with animals, the choices you make now are going to be among the most important you will make. Getting quality, strong stock to begin with can save you so much time and headache, not to mention making it easier to liquidate if it turns out that animal is not right for you.
If you raise farm animals, it is inevitable that you will need to find new homes for some of them at some point. In fact, selling animals you raise yourself can be a lucrative business. Depending on your management methods, you can even make a living by selling livestock, so long as you can make efforts to keep the costs down.
I was sitting in my easy chair feeding the baby the other night, when my husband called me. That in itself was kind of funny, since he just went outside to feed the animals. He was calling because he wanted me to know that we were having babies. One of my goat does delivered two healthy doe kids that night, literally one day after I wrote on here about babies coming soon. These were quite a bit sooner than expected, though!