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Do you raise animals?
by 01100011 1y ago
Do you raise animals?
- dyauspitr 1y agoGoats and chickens but they’re fenced in.
- madaxe_again 1y agoWe do. We also have wolves about. In the last year there has been a grand total of one sheep in the entire district possibly lost to them. Wolves, like many other apex predators, have been selectively bred over generations to be avoidant of humans and livestock, as the consequences are typically mortal, and remove those tendencies from the germline. Same kinda deal as why we no longer have ducks here that aren’t scared shitless of human presence.
- dwood_dev 1y agoRural south here. Goats, chickens, ducks geese. Had the most success with goats and chicken kept behind an electric fence at night. Everything else ends up eaten by the wolves/coyotes within a year. Luckily the eagle populations less than 50 miles away have not yet noticed us. We're more of a target of opportunity for the wolf population due to the abundance of whitetail deer. Those deer provide an excellent source of inexpensive protein from hunting. We can have one of the local butchers process the entire deer for under $200. The usual agreement is that the meat from the first deer of the season goes to the landowner(they pay for processing). The rest is up to the hunter. Most years we end up with enough extra that we donate the processed meat to local churches for distribution to their congregation.