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re: "(We got wild rabbits in my urban neighborhood . . .
Rabbits breed pretty prolifically too.)"
I don't know why that wouldn't be the case almost everywhere, but I think I've only once seen a wild rabbit in NH. I do plan on raising them. I'll almost definitely have cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens, goats and sheep, though I hear it's very difficult to butcher goats since they're fun, smart and personable, and owners have a tendency to become very fond of them. (Not sheep, though. They're among the dumbest of the dumb animals.) Maybe I'll only raise goats for their milk and sheep for meat?
Goats and sheep are also terrible for the turf. Unlike cows, they graze by ripping the grass out of the soil and leave the area dead. You need to have a lot of land if you're going to raise them.
I'm planning to raise a cow each year, and to butcher it each fall so that I won't have to store food for it each winter. That could be expensive, depending on whether I want to grow food for cows. Pigs are a bit better in that they'll eat table scraps. I *may* decide that they're worth keeping through winter.
Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months |
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