BEST AND WORST Livestock for Beginners

WHAT LIVESTOCK DO YOU SUGGEST FOR BEGINNERS AND WHY? -

My livestock for beginners list... 🐓, 🦆, 🐇, 🐟, 🐛, -
After those would come the medium difficulty livestock, mini 🐄, 🐖, 🐝, 🦃,

If you don’t see it there I think it’s hard.
Today we release a video on the channel that talks all about what animals are best for beginners and which are harder and better for the more advance homesteader. -

Like most things on our channel this list is generated by my own personal experience and you may completely disagree with my list of easy and harder animals. So explain your choices in the comments below!

[wyzasukitan]

Really love how one of your determining factors is how easy the animal is to re-home. That’s such responsible animal stewardship, and that’s exactly the type of mentality viewers need to have when considering how ready they are for livestock of *any* kind

[ibbylancaster]

Dude, I just inherited 56 acres of land that has been in our family since 1834. I’m putting a house for my wife and I and one for my son and grandkids. This is the direction I want to go. I want to leave my grandkids something that will give back to them as well. Thank you for the video. Just found your channel and I will be back.

[itsabbsturn]

Chickens are addicting I bought 3 now I have 15 . I have had raised chickens for 10 years and I will never stop .

[Bigcat_-eyni]

For sheep and goats if you put broken concrete or rocks in front of their water, their hooves are maintained as if they were in the wild

[Leelz]

I started with honeybees. Slowly working my way up. But in my opinion there is truly no easy livestock if you are giving them the best quality of life and utmost care and attention.

[mckeenjp]

I think it really depends where you live. Here in Arizona goats are extremely easy to have. Our heat kills most of the worms/diseases and the goats freely graze on everything on my property. I have Nigerians, and they are natural foragers so I hardly have to feed them at all.

[AnneGoggansQHHT]

When getting first livestock, you must be familiar with the predator pressure in your area. We have heavy predator pressure from everything from coyote to raccoon to fox to bobcats.

[ShesquatchPiney]

I really love that u included "rehomability" for your considerations. I think it's a huge part of animal husbandry that isn't acknowledged enough.

[hairy-dairyman]

We run 500 (full size jerseys). I've wanted to get a mini just to see dads reaction when he finds her in the herd

[KrystylRose]

As a goat owner, I can attest to the fact that you CAN make ice cream, butter, etc from their milk. Goats are less difficult to breed and birth. So while I don't disagree with miniature cows. I don't think you have an accurate account of goats.

[skylarhough-anderson]

Equine should be in its own category. There isn’t really a gain from them except to be ridden, pulling things, pasture pet. They are also a powerful animal and require hoof trims, shoes, a specific diet, can be expensive to train, raise and own.

[HeythGaming]

Chicken: not to dirty
My chickens: DESTROY THE YARD

[isabelc]

I would put quail in the easy group. They are small and can be kept in cages, so you can keep them in a smaller place than chickens. They are also quieter than chickens and ducks making them good for people who are technically not allowed to keep livestock where you live. They are also more hardy than chickens when it comes to things like disease. Can be used for meat and eggs. But they are a lot less fun than chickens. They are still wild so they won't be as friendly toward people as chickens would be.

[NooskyPoosky]

A good tip if you want to do bees is have a greenhouse. If you like to keep your home garden in a greenhouse, bees are also great to keep in there. I live in Michigan so we can get some tough winters and if you live in an area like me, a greenhouse is great to keep them busy all year long

[danielmaybee]

I’ve always wondered why so many inexperienced suburbanites want goats these days! Goats are nuts & spend all day trying to get out...I have a miniature Jersey cow, way more docile & super easy to contain

[arachyd]

I loved having ducks. Muscovy ducks don't need a pond - they actually become waterlogged and can sink. Provide a wading pool you can empty daily and they're happy. They also are people-friendly, very good parents, dual purpose (good for meat and eggs), bug killing machines and almost silent. Compared to noisy, egg-pecking, garden-destroying chickens they were a joy to have.

[anyaoberkirsch]

As someone who's had horses, you're spot on. They're so hands on. Feeding, worming, float teeth, shoeing, brushing, exercising. And they never stop pooping! Ever!!! Now that said... I'm crazy and plan to have horses again when the time is right.

[KateSitka]

Horses are my ❤️ but they are so high maintenance. Farier, feed, teeth, pasture, stable, tack, training, vetting - basically horses suck up every dollar and hour of spare time you have! If you love them, that’s ok!

[dimasjunior]

Here in Brazil we have native stingless social bees. They are definately easy. Tastier honey as well.

[Sorengyrl]

This is SO HELPFUL!! I kept thinking “ducks and goats! ducks and goats!” This makes me think twice about goats until I’ve really learned about the experience of livestock with maybe chickens and ducks. Thank you for this.