Today, Jeremiah and I are answering many of the questions about raising meat on the homesteading. These are our opinions and experiences!
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Yay for you, Miah! I’m processing our deer meat while I’m listening to this video. Our sons are avid hunters. We’ve bought all the equipment a few years ago bc of public processing companies. They are costly. We bought all of our equipment cheaper than paying the price of one deer packaged freezer ready. Love your channel. ❤️
That is where I am. I feed my chickens, ducks and hogs all conventional (and garden scraps and kitchen scraps). I know they are living their best life even if the feed isn't perfect. <3
I'm on one acre in a normal neighborhood doing my meat in the very back of my lot, maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of an acre. I'm constantly trying to figure out what I can do in such a small space!
I raise my own chicken and beef. I give them attention and love knowing that I am giving them the best live I can . I care for them with all my heart. I would rather know that they have a wonderful life with room to roam than confined and living in their own waste. Being a responsible meat eater takes heart!
Could you raise your chickens on pasture and garden scraps without using store bought feed? I was wondering because it seems like you guys have a pretty mild winter there.
I have so much respect did you guys!! Thanks for sharing!
Geese are good weeders, they can be used to weed your garden. Ours love to weed. Also good to keep pests down in your yard, ticks and things.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
For anyone who is beginning or doesn't have the land and you're looking to be cost effective I'd suggest buying beef or pork from a local farmer and contacting a local processor. Our family, as in my parents, brother, sister just split a beef that came a farmer my dad works with. 4 separate households. We paid 2.81 for fresh beef after processing. In March/April we're all gonna split a hog. But we're waiting til after our local 4-H fair. There will be a lot of losing pigs that we can get for an even better price than the beef. My husband and sons are hunters/ fisherman. I would say on average we have enough fish and venison to have it about twice a month for each, so 4 meals every month all year. Mind you we're a family of 8. So this would stretch much further for a regular sized family lol. We would like to eventually supplement with chickens and meat rabbits. I don't have a problem eating rabbit, as my Dad used to hunt them. As well, as squirrels lol.
Awesome video along of great information. Thanks guys
I totally agreed with your philosophy. Raising your own meat doesn’t mean you can’t love that animal. You should be able to enjoy your friendships with your animals and feel the importance of their sacrifice for our health.
A friend just gifted me 4lbs of mangilisa ( have no idea how its spelled lol) sausage and oh man it was amazing
I would love to see you guys get into Aquaponics.
Thank you for the information. I started homesteading by accident in 2004. Since I had bought 20 acres because I needed somewhere to put my horse, I ended up overwhelmed because we tried doing too much at once. I had chickens for eggs, then my other 1/2 wanted to get a different kind of chicken to sell. I got rabbits for meat. My intention was to only maintain 3 to 4 rabbits, but once again my other 1/2 wanted to sell so we ended up with somewhere between 20 and 30 rabbits. Same thing happened with goats and sheep. I now live on 5 acres and only have my horse, 3 dogs and 2 cats. I am thinking about getting more chickens but i'm not quite ready yet. I have ordered 2 nucs of bees to pick up in May. So the only thing I would really point out is to try and not take on too much at once, it gets overwhelming real fast.
Yes!! If you can’t look an animal in the eye and acknowledge their life is being taken to support your own, you shouldn’t eat meat! We don’t raise animals yet, but my husband hunts and we process ourselves – knowing that animal had a good natural life and was killed in as humane way as possible is very important to us. We honor that life with the care we put in to processing and using that meat with as little waste as possible.
I’ve heard you mention quail in other videos and the accident with the brooder box. Did you decide not to pursue it further? We are getting some this weekend and I’m so excited!
I asked this in a comment for another episode: What do think about guinea fowl? No-one seems to have any.
this is good information, just confirms what iv been seeing & researching, its horrible how they treat the animals, is Butcher box good for meat?
I'm so glad ur both teaching us , those birds get crazy when their hungry lol
I Love animals & it totally breaks my heart to see how their treated, I truly wana eat differently, just organic meat… ur so rite about the situation with the animals..
In Florida goat meat is readily available in a lot of stores here. I also have a few friends who raise meat animals. We help take care of the animals and then we help process ours. Except our chickens and rabbits. We do those at out home. We want to raise some meat turkeys, geese and ducks. Strictly for freezer camp. I almost bought some partridge eggs after finding out you eat them but I don't know too much about them.
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You folks are so cute! Mia makes it fun to watch, not boring, love you kids❤️❤️