"Ants have learned to keep livestock, but instead of cattle, they breed aphids."
"I want to move my pig, so I've had a lot of animals in my 2020 garden area before. I've had ducks in there, I've had chickens rotate through there, I've had goats in there, and so now, since May, I've had pigs in there."
"Longevity in the herd is the... it saves an awful lot of money."
"Order twice as many as you think you're going to want because half of them will die."
"New livestock acquired... we found a turkey."
"These dogs were entrusted with the job of keeping livestock especially sheep safe even against a grizzly bear."
"If we don't maintain our beef herd, we won't keep our land healthy."
"That's a very nice thing to be able to do because we can guarantee that we'll have a good supply of female calves to be able to sell to other homesteaders."
"Cattle are part of the solution and not part of the problem."
"Oh my gosh, we got a cow now, guys! We're improving!"
"Najdi sheep: Named for the region it comes from, these luxury sheep are prized for their milk, wool, and meat, with a ram selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars."
"Racka sheep: Unusual with large spiral-shaped horns on both rams and ewes, they're multi-purpose, being bred for milk, meat, and wool."
"I'm planning on getting a couple of feeder pigs next spring."
"Highland cattle are part of the bigger picture of regenerative agriculture."
"These Chianina cows are celebrated throughout Tuscany for their lean and tasty beef."
"If you can do the right things for your livestock Guardian dog to ensure that they're safe and healthy and in a situation where they can be successful, then they could be a tremendous asset to your farm or Homestead."
"Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind." - Exodus 10:26
"The milk cow is one of the top most important animals on the homestead."
"Long before I had livestock Guardian dogs, donkeys, alpacas, electric wire fencing, or anything else, I was using geese to protect my livestock."
"Raising meat rabbits: A sustainable solution for self-sufficiency."
"How many pigs do we have on the property right now? Oh yeah, we have about 22 pigs here right now."
"The idea that cows farting is somehow an issue, you've got to wake up guys, you've got to wake up. You are really part of the problem."
"If you don't already have chickens, I highly encourage you to get them."
"Fortunately, we're blessed enough we can raise our own livestock and raise our own meat."
"If you know how much meat you need to raise, you can know how many animals you need."
"I think if you can keep goats in you can keep anything in."
"In Stocking this one will not even kill your goats it's just an issue of you being being being being a clean person sweeping daily."
"Meat birds are just the perfect animal for a small Homestead."
"If you got 13, 14, 1500 pound cows, there's no way you can make any money at the end of the year. They just eat more than they can ever bring you back in."
"Fed it to the hogs, no supplement needed. Still have the cover crop underneath."
"Folks, when you start raising animals that look like this, long grass, no grain, you don't have to have that town job anymore."
"Scottish Highland cows although they're in general easy cows to keep they cost money to care for to buy and to raise and it is work."
"Occasionally you have a cow with special needs like one that has twins or one that loses a calf."
"A milk cow's gonna eat their weight in hay a month. So, count on a thousand pounds of hay a month."
"You really have to do your research when you're adding Guardian animals to your flock."
"We need to move these animals, we need to take advantage of livestock as a tool."
"I just tell everybody like if you can get your chickens on garlic, it's really going to prevent so many problems down the road."
"You've got to hold down a a calf that's kicking and screaming and bellowing, you gotta hold it down on the back of the Ute if it falls off it's dead."
"He and Vasquez also took to keeping various livestock on hand, including oxen, cattle, goats, and sheep."
"Akushi is a high fertility breed adapted very well in the united states."
"Well that's it I'm getting a pig."
"Funny, ain't it? All them cattle and nine-tenths of the horses are stolen."
"The Sheep are definitely doing great with it, they're producing lots of milk."
"It's the first time in the history of humanity where you see groups of people saying we're only going to raise goats or we're going to raise tens of thousands of them."
"We produce a wide array of vegetables in a no-till cropping system and we run heritage chickens on pasture for eggs. We also run heritage reed hogs for pork and we produce a variety of flowers and herbs as well."
"Having a dairy cow is 100% worth it."
"A self-closing and goat-proof gate is really important."
"High tensile wire, when strung and strain to the recommended 250 pounds of tension, withstands up to 2,000 pounds of livestock pressure, and that's per strand."
"Of all the livestock you could ever own, ducks are the one that really, unless you are physically grabbing them, they can't hurt you."
"Geese I think get an unfair negativity applied to them because realistically they're not a dangerous livestock."
"We receive a delivery every week from our slaughterhouse approximately six whole beef every week and 12 whole hogs every week."
"It makes such a small impact on the amount of water that these animals that we are raising to eat make."
"One of the really nice things about Cornish cross chickens."
"Livestock are our primary source of fertility because you are introducing a food source to feed the chickens you are by default adding fertility to your place."
"Keep the animals that can stay fat and give you a calf on Kentucky 31 with clover mixed in with it. Sell the ones that don't. Period. Done. Situation taken care of."
"Continuous grazing is a common practice in which livestock have unrestricted access throughout the grazing season."
"The best part about raising the meat chickens is getting them out of the brooders and out onto fresh grass."
"The cattle are super, super good shape, that calf's got a dried relief."
"Hereford genetics are on fire and Barbara Ranch herds are bringing the heat."
"Genetics are very important to us. We pay very close attention and try to buy high-quality replacement heifers and bulls for our breeding program."
"Bron V cows have been documented repeatedly for their ability to remain productive in cow herds for 10 years or more."
"Their vigor, their longevity, their health... these cattle are extremely light when they're born and they grow like no other."
"The James family were slave owners... So this area would have had livestock, they would have had sheep and hogs."
"...and it's because because it's related to wheat it's very high in protein it's like you know 13 14 percent protein and it doesn't have a hull on it so it's nice and digestible for four four pigs."
"We shoot guns. We raise livestock. And we have the best time."
"...pregnant cows are put back out to pasture, calves are reunited with their mothers."
"I'm happy to report that all 15 of the new chicks arrived alive and in good shape."
"Meat goats were generating a return of three hundred dollars per animal unit."
"The serious business of looking after the livestock has to go on."
"The Cornish cross can achieve two pounds of meat for every one pound of feed. That is pretty freaking incredible."
"Rabbits are superior to chickens."
"Mexico is also known for its large horse population, with more than 12.9 million horses."
"I think probably our goats and Moody probably go through two round Bells a month of hay and our farm supply that has good horse quality hay which is believe it or not what you want to feed goats."
"They're corn-fed. They grow 'em thick out there for sure."
"Pigs are a great way to make a lot of money through pork in a short period of time with a little bit of land."
"Chickens are an amazing and obvious animal to look at when you're looking at profitable small farming because they are a dual income animal, both eggs and meat."
"It really depends on when your goats are kidding."
"They have a lot of added benefits to a homestead."
"There's always a noisy event when you gather cows this time of year."
"I think the single most important investment you can make on an animal is not just an everyday run-of-the-mill Holstein cow."
"...we're going to see how tall it'll get this year because uh we just got it fenced off and the neighbors horses were coming over last year and eating some of it before we put the sheep in here."
"We have the only chickens, free-range chickens in Maine that are free-ranging all winter long."
"The genetics that Circle F offers, that's really what has drawn us to their animals."
"You can see they provide us with a superior heifer."
"Brangus cattle not only survive but thrive on the fescue pastures."
"The Brangus female is such an amazing creation that she can take any climates that we have here in the United States and around the world and not only survive in it but thrive."
"Vaccination is very important in livestock production."
"Sorghum gets very tall, making it an ideal winter feed that cattle can graze on even in deep snow."
"Cattle are defenseless against the Predators wolves especially like going after young calves and Heifers."
"They calve like crazies and these bigger calves in this cold weather...handled it so much better than those 50 60 pound angus calves."
"They'll do the job because they're built right and they just get out and go to work."
"The power of some of these cover crops to finish an animal is amazing."
"What'd you get? We got four heifers."
"Rob Roy's business prospered, taking on more men, safeguarding more important cattle routes to Market, droving and retrieving cattle for gentry and landowners."
"If we removed antibiotics in livestock, you would see that the whole feedlot system... would have to be made a lot more humane."
"I think we're pretty much ready to finally get some cows."
"I think we're ready for cows, can't wait to get them."
"Even a cow is the source of material from which nearly a hundred different products are made."
"The market is paying a premium for weaned calves."
"Know your market, know your cattle."
"The reason we went with Idaho pasture pigs is because they make a really good quality meat."
"They're also a more docile, nicer breed of pig."
"I have about 130 cows, milking cows, with young stock, and I have about 70 hectares of land."
"These are American Chinchillas... it's a heritage breed, they're listed as rare."
"You can't have a world without livestock; they are a necessary and very constructive part of our expectation to feed ourselves."
"Integrating livestock jumpstarts the process of building soil health back."
"We run over 1,700 ewes here, and it's a lot of feeding."
"Pork is the most consumed meat globally, and that is because there's no other animal that can be reared that will give you as much meat as pork."
"There's a pretty good market for intact rams around Ramadan and then Easter."
"They not only add carbon to the soil, increase the biodiversity and manage pests, look after salt levels, but they also provide enormous benefit to our livestock."
"Match your animal to forage, match your animal to your topography."
"Average daily gain of the steers that were fed controlled intake was 3.78 pounds a day versus 2.07."
"This is the best goat in the world."
"Largely what a livestock guardian does is they bark and they keep predators away just by barking and patrolling."
"Good morning, sheep fans! Sheep is the game; it's another step closer to lambing."
"It's always a good idea to castrate your bulls if you're planning on raising them for food."
"What Vence has done is create a device that can not only monitor their health and well-being but can also be used to contain them in a virtual fence while grazing."
"Cutting the material makes it more palatable to the cattle."
"If you want to efficiently increase soil health, livestock need to be part of the equation."
"The land which the Lord struck before the congregation of Israel is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle."
"The use of livestock improved transportation and trade and allowed for new forms of political control."
"If you're passionate about livestock care and crave to experience a profound journey, let's explore this impressive world together."
"Galway is Ireland's native sheep breed; it has over 100 years of heritage and provenance."
"The Bradford cow is an alternative for good meat production."
"The breed has a large carcass which produces a lot of meat at the time of slaughter."
"A higher resistance to sickness and add to that excellent fertility indices and their maternal ease."
"These are not dairy cows; these cows they're specialized for meat production."
"Is this a problem that science can solve, or are there just too many cows?"
"Everything about them is right; they are such good cows."
"Seeing your sheep are looking good is an absolute pleasure."
"That's cool, good looking calf, good looking cow."
"She's within seven to ten days of having her 20th calf, she's had 19 calves, 21 years old now."
"Behind every good bull there's a story, early mornings and late nights, hours spent pouring over pedigrees and genetic test results."
"The biggest challenge about owning bison is working them."
"We're trying to create a good cow-calf herd operation and raise these awesome animals."
"I want to give you some tips and tricks to look out for, especially if you'll be buying breeding stock."
"Goats are primarily browsers, sheep eat a little bit of everything, and cattle are largely roughage grass eaters."
"We farm 600 acres of land and we have about a thousand little piglets in the barn at all times."
"One of the most significant trends we have seen in the Virginia livestock industry in recent years is the increasing demand for goats -- specifically meat goats."
"Chupacabra has been around whenever you find that your livestock has either gone missing or is found dead with all its blood sucked right out."
"Cows are nature's carbon capture technology as well as the cheap source of protein for the world."
"If you're wanting to learn more about bison confirmation and what you should be looking for when you want to buy some bison, this is where it all happens."
"If you're going to get into it, start with good animals."
"We're a big bison family, always wanting to help each other."
"Grass-fed lamb is a magnificent product."
"The Botswana small stock industry is definitely headed in the right direction."
"Yabbies are livestock and need to be fed regularly."
"I tend a herd of 50 Hereford cattle which is kept on the proving ground to check the effects of fallout and atomic radiation."
"When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock."
"Hercules had to sail to the island of Erytheia to retrieve the beautiful red cattle of Geryon."
"Every day we try looking for advancements and how comfort forages... just focused on trying to do what's best for the cow."
"Honestly, in all reality, they can and they do, and it's very rare that we have to step in and help."
"Good morning, we are weaning if you hadn't heard."
"I'm working at knit Beefcake, we mixed that corn all up in there; we haven't fed him probably in a month."
"We tackled the age-old challenge of selecting for carcass and maternal traits in beef cattle herds."
"If a bull's good at both, we call them an all-around bull."
"The cow has been my life, so I've been very fortunate to work with the cow all my working life."
"Bradnick, a bull that once you've taken a look at, you can throw the paper away and say, 'I don't know who he is or what he is, but boy, I love to look at this bull'."
"Brahman consistently excel in fertility, longevity, and their uncommon ability to adapt to most any environment and thrive."
"Brahman cattle carry the profit drivers that work well for Stockmen."
"We had a really phenomenal winter and spring, so the bulls are looking really good this year."
"National Western Stock Show is the top combination stock show, rodeo, and horse show in the world."
"It is known as the Super Bowl of cattle shows."
"Brazil is blessed by Nature with a large territory and vast land suitable for agriculture, an advantage for the livestock industry."
"To be a provision and benefit for you and your cattle."
"Base your water parameters off your livestock's needs and let your plants adjust to the livestock's environment."
"Cultivating livestock for human consumption is the leading cause of climate change."
"We've never been a big-time cattle farm, we determined that goats were better off to raise for our property."
"We can sell the eggs, we can sell the rabbits, we can sell the meat of the chickens."
"They started small, but their herd is growing and it has now been commercialized."
"They are LaManchas, so if you guys know anything about goats, these are a dairy breed that have no ears."
"He's a really big cow, well technically, he's a steer."
"When you go into a Masai village, you might see chickens running around, but the chickens are there to eat the fleas and bugs and ticks off of the sheep, goats, and cattle."
"Our conception rates are good and the longevity of these cows just seems to go on forever."
"Holy cow, that's pretty good for our little Dexters."
"A dairy cow produces so much more milk, they can produce eight to ten gallons a day."
"I love my ranching business, I love my herds, and I've got good cattle."
"At the end of the day, you cannot breed a better lamb than the stock that you begin with."
"I love the Dorper sheep for so many reasons."
"Jacob had the best goats and everyone knew that he had the best sheep."
"As a result, Jacob became very wealthy, with large flocks of sheep and goats, female and male servants, and many camels and donkeys."
"He was to breed the best and the strongest animals with each other."
"We're best known for the extra muscling, the extra yield you're going to get in the carcass."
"I'm going to take y'all with us, and we're going to drop them off at our butcher."
"China is the world's largest pig raising country with half of the world's pigs currently raised in this country."
"Black pigs are livestock that bring great economic value to local people."
"Santo Island is known for having the best-raised cows that produce the best beef."
"Ain't she a beauty? I know the cattle will be excited about that."
"It's really cool to be able to track data and sort of pick out your best performing animals."
"Cattle is akin to wealth, so you're just looking over his herd thinking himself a very wealthy man."
"The perfect livestock for the homestead."
"They're really parasite resistant."
"For the most part, they're really easy-keeping cows."
"The ratio of pigs to goats is five to four."
"These are the best cows in the world, seriously."
"The Sheep were a fantastic tool for clearing land."
"These are great looking pigs, these are phenomenal looking pigs."
"That's one of the best pigs I've ever seen, that's a great pig."
"Our whole goal is to produce quality animals that each time that kid walks into the show ring, he's got the chance of winning a banner."
"The calves get identity tags; heifers, the girls, are tagged the left ear, the bulls, the boys in the right ear."