Livestock Feeding on the Farmette

In this video Patti the Garden Girl feeds the livestock on her Urban Farmette.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• farm
• farmette
• garden
• girl
• green
• livestock
• living
• moreno
• patti
• poultry
• rabbits
• sustaianble
• urban

[RosaButton]

How do you clean all these cages? TY

[kellydjelly]

she has pygmy goats they don't need much space.

[paramka]

@SalmonSlayer1991 If you watch more of her videos she uses the fur for weaving her own yarn. Also she does use the manure for fertilizer.

[dogpup23]

@ziggy2sound4u Right, she is being very sustainable. No I agree, I wouldn't put just two goats out on acres, I would either get more goats or use part of the land for a garden. I think that the pen she has for her goats is simply too small. You can't put goats out on land in the city so pens is what people have to use, but I don't believe her pen is the appropriate size for goats to be living in full time.

[ziggy2sound4u]

@dogpup23

My point is, that GardenGirl is being VERY sustainable by putting to use the land she has available to her...

I, myself, would not have a pair of goats running over "acres".

This is a waste of land, that could be put to other uses, such as corn/oats/hay growing, which will feed you and the animals this winter.

The object of this is feeding herself and her family, not necessarily making livestock happy.

[dogpup23]

@ziggy2sound4u Right, they are farm animals, not pets after all I understand that :o people keep them around for they're many uses. In my view, you'd think that you would get better milk and meat from them being in an enviroment that they were meant for...

but believe me, I think one thing we can agree on is our dislike for PETA :/ I want absolutely no part of them. yes I am a major animal lover and believe in them living in enviroments they were meant for but I don't take things as far.

[ziggy2sound4u]

@dogpup23

That "fellow" is not my friend, but yes he and his wife keeps them in that all the time...they are animals and their "happiness" is not necessarily what you are after...Their meat and milk on the other hand.....

PETA loves your kind, ARGH!!!

[dogpup23]

@ziggy2sound4u Most people who are wishing to live sustainably and be good to the enviroment are also interested in keeping their animals happy :/ Yes, I was wrong there, they do not need acres to live on, but having an acre or two of forest or brush area would make they happier than keeping them in a pen all the time. Or am I just assuming that your friend keeps them in there all the time? :o I think that would be totally fine to keep them in that size of pen at night or something.

[SalmonSlayer1991]

okay so if your an urban homesteader i understand chickens they produce eggs goats produce milk if you do the whole breeding cycles but the rabbits? for some reason i cant see you eating them so what purpose do they serve manure maybe? plus if that were the case then both the goats and chickens double as meat animals

[ziggy2sound4u]

Great job, garden girl!

This just goes to show how a person can be self sufficient in little space, even in a city!

More Americans ought to do this before the dollar crashes.