@NailBomb@mushroom_soup and chickens are a no brainer, eggs and meat, they even make more chickens on their own, where as with the goats, i planned to keep does only ahd hire a stud buck to breed them once a year or so.
I'm going to go the sheep route and see what happens. Still have a bit of pain in the ass work on the house before I can sell, but I have my local sheep supplier lined up already. Maybe I'll regret it, but goats are just to darn annoying
@NailBomb@mushroom_soup maybe, i was gonna get a middle gorund breed of sheep that does milk wool and meat ok, btu sheep meat ain't that great, goat meat is tho, and i can do nubian goats easier and have meat and milk
@NailBomb@mushroom_soup hey can do both, but yea sewing will come in handy, i was honestly gonna get sheep, but then i switched to goats, cuz in the short term i see no use for wool and you gotta gather it otherwise your sheep will get too hot, and it's a lot of effort to work that into cloth lol. and i ain't trying to be a small scale textile producer.
@NailBomb@mushroom_soup to keep the milk flowing and if they have boys, i'll band one and fatten him up then have him butchered to fill my freezer, or sell him.
@givenup@NailBomb@mushroom_soup If you do sheep whool LMKL how you figure it out. I could never find much use for it, would shear once a season and huck all of it into the trash. Need a good clean pasture for it to stay sellable, and even when it IS clean wool’s like 3 bucks for a giant trashbag of it around here. Nobody wants it
@WashedOutGundamPilot@NailBomb@mushroom_soup that's essentially why i went away from sheep, cuz until i actaully would have to start making my own clothes it's basicly useless to me, too mcuh effort to spin, and time consuming, what i want are animals that can give me things i need like meat and milk and eggs, wool is nice, but a lot of effort and i'd only be willing to mess with it if i had to to evne have clothe sa tall. lol
@givenup@NailBomb@mushroom_soup Then I’m back to shopping for hand-looms. Still utterly pissed, I heard someone had one passed down in the family a few years back, the aunt gave it away to be used as a DECORATION to one of her dumb crafty friends, stupid clownass. Love how all these items from the family panoply of rural living were parceled out by the boomers after a century of safekeeping.