I saw your intro post while going through looking for new promising accounts. Thanks for making an intro post, or I would never have found you. I'm very interested in homesteading! One point of having animals is to be able to barter with your neighbors. I don't mean trading animals back and forth either. ha ha I brew mead for example, and I'm looking for someone to trade me quality beef. The other guy just doesn't "get it." If he doesn't want to have animals to barter animal products, perhaps he should switch to honey farming instead. Hey, I could use another honey source for my mead!