Livestock on a Homestead

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Roxanne has a flourishing homestead with many animals. In today’s show, she lays out the case for each and recommends which animals to start out raising. Connect With Roxanne Ahern: Roxanne Ahern studied at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Roxanne is now a mother of five on a working homestead that includes sheep, goats, chickens, guinea hens, ducks, sometimes cows, rabbits, and pigs, and of course, dogs and cats. She also grows a large garden. Order Roxanne’s book, Holistic Homesteading Happy Holistic Homesteading blog Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you have been thinking about getting into not only gardening but also keeping livestock
0:19.0	of some kind, I think this is a cool episode for you.
0:21.8	I obviously have some epic chickens on the homestead, they're living in their chateau,
0:26.4	I did go a little extra on my...
0:28.9	It goes hard, or it hits different, the coop, so to speak, went a little extra,
0:33.3	but that's just what I do.
0:35.7	And Roxanne, from the early intro, at the beginning of this week, chickens, goats,
0:40.2	guinea hens, ducks, cows, rabbits, pigs, dogs, cats, and sheep.
0:44.6	So pretty much anything you could recently have, it sounds like you have some experience
0:48.8	with, right?
0:49.8	Yeah, I mean, we don't have horses, but I think like horses and donkeys and stuff, or we
0:57.1	don't have llamas or alpacas, but we've done a lot of different animals on the farm.
1:04.1	And sometimes certain ones, we keep all the time, and certain ones are just kind of
1:08.0	for a season.
1:10.0	But...
1:11.0	How do you keep a livestock for, let's say, a season?
1:14.1	Do you rent it from someone or...?
1:16.6	No, it's more like if you're raising a cow, like a beef cow, you might have that for
1:24.2	like a certain amount of time, and then it's like you raise it up until it's ready to
1:28.3	go to freeze a camp.
1:30.4	And you know, that way, or like, or we just, we did cows for a while, and then I felt
1:36.0	like it was, my husband was traveling for work more than, and I got to a point where
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