As another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive.
I have written about the Norwegian in living in the same house with their cows, Jabossie. One did this to keep wolves from eating them, marauders from eating them, them from freezing, them from running off and the reality is cows give off thermal heat which heats your home through breath exhaust, fart exhaust and body conductivity.
In the reality of saving Belle from mean lesbian cattle flippers, we have learned a few things that the Rodale Homesteading books do not reveal from their college egg heads who never expound upon reality, as all looks good in the Obama textbooks.
I love having animals in the house, but just like Ruby my setter had reams of slippery red hair to slide upon, Baby Belle has features as do the goatikins which winter confinement does not reveal in the textbooks.
Rodale mentioned chickens, and I know of chickens too. I witnessed a Manchurian pig farmer eating his millet soup which was heated over a pig shit methane fed burner, which was really ceramic neat. There is a problem though in animals, in they do make odors which most people can not stand. Urine is acrid smelling and poop is fermented grass smelling, which does not bother me, but it is something which needs to be dealt with.
Keeping them in pens, like a dog kennel for the goats works good, but it is wet rugs and poop on the rugs daily, which requires cleaning........not in your washing machine probably but a laundry which is an expense.
Belle came with ringworm which we all caught, which is from dairy barns and lesbians running cattle flipper operations. Belle is finally after the end of April healing up from this. Daisy did heal up months earlier and her cyst broke or something, as it healed, but Belle was ill for a long time, and it took about that long for me to wear the sticky poop off my shoes from her.
That though is not the problem. Our animals were neither busting through windows nor smashing television sets. What is the main problem is the feed. Hay is dusty and that dust gets into the air and onto everything. It makes breathing hard and it is itchy.
I realize that expensive pellets or ground feeds might work things out, but it is the hay that for us was the main problem in all of this.
The remedy for this would be a small garage or shed close to the house which wolves could not dig under. Daisy did very well in that, and Belle when she joined her did great too. They both had no problems with slight ventilation, which is a must to keep them from getting pneumonia, even in 15 to 20 below weather.
As I type this, the goatikins are in the center of the living room in the kennel. Mom has a poplar stick she has in there that they chew on as she tries to make them distracted sometimes. Goats mess rugs up no matter what in they just will not lay on them, no more than a dog will. These are bucks so they get horny even at a few months of age, and they sound sometimes like elephants in raising hell in the pen.
They are comforting in being good 90 percent of the time. They are loving and like all these animals, they are animals first and not people ever. They go out and do chores in the morning with us, go for walks and they sleep inside at night, as it is too cold yet to have them out, and there are predators which would kill them if opportunity arose.
They are though really good companions which we put feed on the top of the wire dog kennel and they pull the hay down to them as a self feeder.
When your life depends on keeping your animal safe for the meat or milk they produce, then the things which bother are overlooked more often. This was a great experience in ancient technologies and how things work.
I honestly could see having a slurry pit for dung and urine as the Chinese man had, and collecting the methane coming off the decomposing poop to use to cook his food. Rodale mentioned about it heating a home too, but that is something of mathematics in poop to combustion rations, as it requires hundreds of pounds of natural gas to heat and cook with. For the Chinaman though, he had no wood, and this was easier than cutting wood.
Pig shit requires more grain, which is expensive, unless you raise it yourself, but higher grain means more methane and is why hog shit smells worse like dairy cattle poop does in being sour, as it is sour mash like your whiskey which is fermented.
From this necessary experience, I think a close to the house secure shed would be the better arrangement, with a slurry pit, that you would not crawl into to be suffocated as you can not breathe methane, would be a very good system in complete energy needs for heating and cooking. It is when money prevails in a big donation the thing I will create.
The manure after decomposing would be used as high grade fertilizer to grow crops.
Chickens are notorious like all birds in being dust producers. They will smell too, but not to the point if you just had a half dozen hens and a rooster to make noise. Chicken guano is higher grade nitrogen and will burn plants, but would also produce more methane. It is a point though in how many chickens it would require to heat and provide cooking for a home.
If one care too, one could use gas lighting too as that is what was normal before electricity. It is just a point that when gas goes wrong, it goes boom or you suffocate from the methane.
We would and will be taking Baby Belle and Baby Daisy for walks. It was just that my back was hurting and Belle was covered with ringworm, which was not attractive to be exposed to that every day. They are good girls though and will develop into fine pets producing milk someday. We will though have to artificial inseminate them though, as Belle is looking to be thee smallest cow on the planet. At present, she is about 2 inches higher than your dining room table, and that is at the age of........8 months. That is a wee miniature baby calf. Daisy is not supersized, but she looks like it compared to this Baby Belle now.
If one understands that animals require attention and care, and they do get sick, then I think that chickens are good choice, pigs can be in their own pen, and cattle are in the miniature or Jersey genus, providing they are trained, are good animals for a homestead. Goats I love, but our Nubians like all Nubians have genetic disease they will die from, and that is heart rending with satan involved. Cows and pigs can get sick, but will recover. Goats and sheep get sick, and they just die.
I did not mention sheep in this, as I have none. That is a project for when the money comes in. They would require sheering like goats require hoof trimming, but they would make adequately fine milk, wool and meat producers as pets.
There are just not enough miniature Jerseys in the world now be eating them, no matter the necessity. So that would fall to the beef breeds of Dexters, Highlanders or Herefords, which too with training will produce about all the milk you would care to drink.
Oh and for cattle, you do not need to milk every day. You simply have the calf not bottle fed and sucking the cow out. On days you do not need milk, the calf does the work, and on days you want milk, you take your share.
Granted I have no idea what Belle will ever produce as she is tiny. It is just the actual experience recorded here which is of necessity as all there is for information are these dolts who think they know how to raise animals and soon enough are out of it as it is too much work or those college boys who read about things like Obama and dream up mandates which only work on paper.
As you probably missed it my children and brats, I just told you how to cook your food and heat your homes when the lights go out, by using your own shit and your pet's poo.......maybe you should retain that knowledge, prepare and ........oh my be thankful for the Lame Cherry as this stuff is a blessed more important to your surviving than how many ping pong balls Hillary Clinton can shove up Jeb Bush's arse.
Nuff said
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