New Addition to the Homestead

Okay everyone knows when you have a homestead you start to get animals. As far as our homestead goes I try to have one rule when it comes to animals. My rule is: every animal on the homestead has to be useful. What do I mean by that? Well on our homestead we have chickens. They are useful because they offer meat, eggs, and poop that we use as fertilizers. They also help with bugs here on our homestead. We also have sheep that will give us poop for fertilizer and can also be used for meat. We have been looking into goats as well. With goats they will offer us meat, milk, poop for fertilizer, and we can also use them to clear the under growth in the woods.

So as you can see the animals that we have or looking into will benefit us in some way. But let’s look at reality! I live in a house that consist of myself, two boys, my wife, and three daughters. So as you can see the males are a little out numbered. So needless to say there are times where my thoughts on things may not be heard the way I meant for them to.

So this leads us to my point. Like I said earlier I believe that what ever animal you have should serve a propose. I guess in my wife’s and daughters heads that means we should have a homestead that is a place to rescue all animals. So now we are the proud owners of three new grown roosters. We all ready had six roosters from a group of 26 chickens we received! But our other roosters are not grown yet and my wife and daughters could not see them going to a bad home. So we just had to have them in their minds and as the saying goes happy wife happy life.

Then this one just takes the cake! My wife hears about this pig that someone had to get rid of. The poor thing was in with a male for a month and then moved into a dog carrier! That’s where the she was left she eat, drank, and slept there for over a month! So my wife just had to save her and on top of that she is probably pregnant! Oh did I tell you it is a pot belly pig! What can a pot belly pig bring to a homestead? They are pets all we are doing is spending money on feed!


If anyone out their can tell me what benefits they bring I would love to hear them.