Raising a Chicken or Goat farm?
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Question by Mary A: Raising a Chicken or Goat farm?
How many chickens or goats would one have to purchase and own before one can say they have a chicken or a goat farm?
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8 Responses to Raising a Chicken or Goat farm?
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100 chickens
hip lady
August 3, 2012 at 4:22 pm
I think that classification as a chicken farm or goat farm is more in the farmers mind that an actual number of animals owned. I have 2 goats, 2 dogs but don’t consider my self a goat farmed
Good luck
Pobept K
August 3, 2012 at 4:40 pm
if you have one, you have a farm !!!
(and a nice place to get rid of those table scraps…. chickens and goats will eat ANYTHING!!!)
johndeere2510
August 3, 2012 at 5:11 pm
I would say 3 goats and 6 chickens would make you a homestead. For a farm you would need at least triple that. But since it is just a label, who cares? Call yourself a small farm.
I had 25 chickens and 3 goats which I considered a small farm plus the pigs and rabbits, geese, and ducks.
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And goats LOVE dogfood while the hens love table scraps.
iluvtorofl
August 3, 2012 at 6:03 pm
we own 50 goats and chickens, but we are not a farm
Intersexual
August 3, 2012 at 6:29 pm
A few pets will not turn your place into a farm.
Regardless, it is not how many you have, its what you do with them. Keeping livestock is a huge responsibility. You can function as a farm if you manage your animals with selective purchasing and breeding. You need to market them well in order to sell them.
A functional farm can also be where you manage animals for your own use. Goats provide meat and milk, and the chickens too will give you meat, with eggs as well.
CornerStone
August 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm
We have 60 chickens and 11 goats (with alot of babies due soon!), and we consider ourselves a hobby farm. We’re also registered with the US Dept. of Agriculture as a farm. (We also have some horses, cows, and pigs).
horsegal_521
August 3, 2012 at 8:23 pm
You have to have two or more goats (they are social creatures) Owning a few goats is a glorious experience. Chasing them out of neighbors prized flower gardens, tackling them in the rain, putting them in the barn only to find that they escaped and are eating your peas, milking the mama while the kids use your back for a trampoline…but they are cute little devils.
Owning a bunch of chickens is a good idea since they fall prey to many different animals. When you wake up in the middle of the night to hear something in the chicken house, it is reassuring that you will have at least a few left if you do not successfully chase the raccoon down the mountain with the spotlight and 22 at 2 in the morning.
wvgirl
August 3, 2012 at 8:24 pm