Hey COOL! New forum!!!

[babysteps]

Wow, check it out! HouseWolf, you're the best!

Hmm... we need some goats in here... a few cows... what other animals can I bring in here? :lol:

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[Beaners]

I've got some rabbits for now, and hopefully some ducks pretty soon to toss into the mix.

Kayleigh

[Freeholder]

I have goats, in addition to a few meat rabbits and some chickens.

Also a couple of barn cats (although one of them is trying really hard to make herself into a house cat, LOL!), and two big watchdogs.

Kathleen (also one lap-kitten-in-training! :) )

[Navajo]

Cows and horses and rabbits and looking to add goats and chicken....

We have deer and elk and an occasional moose that comes by the BOL

Our current live in home has almost daily antelope and occasional deer and elk.

[Navajo]

Just be on the look out for...

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[Yooper]

Nav,
That's one scary sight! Ha!

[cyberiot]

Thanks, HouseWolf! This so rocks!

I think the thread about working dogs that was generated a couple weeks ago would be good here.

Singing Old MacDonald might help. Moo, neigh, baah, bleat, cluck, gobble, quack, woof, meow . . .

Er. . . what do rabbits say?

[Buttercup]

Er. . . what do rabbits say?Aaa!...What's up doc?

[Micah68]

We have milk cows, beeves, horses, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and bees. In the past we have had sheep and dairy goats.

[Kayla]

Horses, goats, chickens, rabbits, half a dozen cats, a few dogs & guinea pigs. The sheep have all been sold and the most recent pig is currently residing in the freezer. :)

We also have deer on the place daily and occasionally antelope and elk.

What kind of goats and rabbits do you folks own?
I have Nubian goats, and the rabbits are mainly Champagne d'Argents, Dutch and a few Mini-Lops.

[ajharris]

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[ajharris]

I have rabbits, goats, chickens, guineas and turkeys.

I have NZW's, NZB's, Mini Rex, Dutch, and a whole bunch of mutts. I am fixing to get Standard Rex also.

I have 7 goats. 2 saanens, a lamancha boer cross, 2 boers, a nubian, a saanen/ober, and an ober.

[hisbluelady]

It took me a while to figure out that Barn YARD was a new section! We have a few chickens, but when dh finally builds a fence I'm going to get goats. We also have two dogs, too many cats, and some mice...we're going to have to let a cat or two back into the house. Oh, and ds's baby bull snake in a fish tank.

[Freeholder]

I have a reg. Oberhasli buck (goat). One of my does is half Alpine, the other is mostly Oberhasli but 3/16 Boer and 1/16 Toggenburg (both does were sired by my Ober buck). I also have an Alpine doe here who doesn't belong to me, and a wether who I intended for packing, but who is probably going in the freezer shortly because feed prices are so high.

The rabbits consist of a purebred NZW buck, a mostly Sable doe (she's also part Californian), and some of their offspring. I'm supposed to be getting another doe, a NZW, from my friend who owns the Alpine doe.

Chickens -- I have a small flock of Silkies (for hatching and raising replacements); and some Easter Eggers and Leghorns that I plan to cross. I want smallish birds that lay well, but I don't want those big Leghorn combs that will freeze off in the winter. Easter Eggers have pea combs, and since pea combs are dominant, I'm hoping in a few generations to have a flock of pea-combed Leghorns, possibly laying green eggs!

There are also four Marans hens that are going in the freezer.

My dogs are both mostly English Shepherd with a little Collie added; the barn cats are both part Siamese and look it.

Lap-kitten is a gray tabby. I can justify feeding her (him? Haven't checked closely enough to be absolutely certain of gender yet!) as a living hot water bottle, LOL!

Kathleen

[Disastercat]

Horses, barn cats, house cats and two Elk Hounds...we did have chickens but the foxes proved too much. We will get them again if things get rough, we also tried sheep but that was too much for our six acres to have with the horses.

Barn cats are all spay or neutered, and most come in the house once in a while. About three years ago we had to get some new guys because the old pensioners were getting on. They were happy to teach the new guys how to hunt though, and it is pretty normal to step out the back door and step on a partly chewed rat. Lots of fun with my husband's sister and her husband visit from a US urban area...he, he

[Kayla]

Never owned an Ober but I think they're beautiful. Nubians will probably always be my favorite though.

Chickens: Started out with some banties, then got some Polish and some Auracanas (not sure if the spellings correct, but they lay green/blue eggs), and finally some Black Australorps. My chickens just have the run of the place and roost in barns, trees...wherever...so the chickens I have now are a mix of all the above breeds. I'm still hoping to get a chicken coop built before winter but we already had a little snow the night before last, so we're running out of time.

Dog 1: Lab/Border Collie
Dog 2: "Mostly" German Shep
Dog 3: Red heeler

House cats are a Manx, a Manx/Siamese cross and a grey tabby ??? kitten we recently got from the Humane Soc. Also have 3 barn cats (tame & neutered/spayed but prefer the barns). We generally have several half-mouse carcasses on the porch daily. Blech.

Rabbit herd was up to 25 but by next weekend we'll be down to 12 or 13. Even the 16% pellets are now $15/50# and going up almost weekly so I did some culling. May be forced to do the same with the goats. I have 4 wethers and 2 older retired does in addition to a buck and 5 younger does. Have a lot of horses that need to be sold too, but in this economy that may be difficult.

[mowarren]

some beef cattle 1 jersey cow 1/2 doz nubian goats doz layer chickens (marans) also trying to raise broiler chicks this fall 100 of them if hawks will leave them alone.had rabbits but sold them for now maybe again later

[momof23goats]

I have Nubians, the pure breed ,and the mini Nubians. these are milking goats. I have chickens, Guenia hens, turkeys. horses, steer, and hogs. herd dogs, poms, in the house, and that's it .
lots of wild life, we have a cougar that shows up most afternoons, in the back pasture about 4. and I have a wolf family in the old orchard, and a coyote family, in the front woods. it can get lively around here. And the usual amount of deer.

[English]

Sweet!
And we just got back from the livestock auction.
Bought a mating pair of silver seabright bantums, and 4 chukar partridges (1 male & 3 female).
Sold 4 lion head rabbits.
All said and done, came home with $2.59 .... must be why they call it the livestock "exchange"...lol

We keep lion heads, and netherlend dwarf for pets/pet sales.
Flemmish giant for meat.
Chicken for eggs/meat/chick sales.

The Chukar are new to me, They are partly for meat breeding/hunter sales....mostly for learning, and practice; until I can find some Butler Bobwhite quail (twice the size of a standard bobwhite).

[morningstar]

We have 2 dogs, 5 barn cats, 2 english spot rabbits, a layer flock of about 60 mixed breeds, and our brreder flock of about 45 Delawares. We just processed our last run of meat birds for the years, so I also have fifty birds in the freezer:-D.

[Tundra Gypsy]

Wow, all these animals. Any lions, tigers or bears? Oh dear, not here. :) I can't wait to learn how to raise some of the critters you folks are raising, as I've never raised chickens or goats. This is great!