All of my working animals were quite expensive. I am lucky though because I didn't have to pay for them. I live on my in-laws farm and I just 'work' here. They pay for what they want and I just slave away and take care of whatever they want taken care of. Turned out to be a much bigger project than I had expected. With my illness it is hard for me to manage the flock and the dogs and moving them around the vineyard and so on.
When I was breeding it was HORRIBLE for my bipolar, being up all night and the stress of lambing and so on... I had to stop breeding because of it. I just can't do it anymore.
At this point all I can do is barely feed all of the animals every morning and evening and even that is a struggle for me.
And by the way, NONE of our sheep are EVER killed or eaten. Not in my lifetime!!!!!! They are actually a very rare breed of miniature sheep that are about $900 each which is very expensive for sheep and they are not even the eating variety anyway.
So no worries here. The only thing we eat are our chicken eggs and we are overrun with eggs right now. Anyone want some???
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Originally Posted by Maven
Gaius cost $2,500 when you bought him?  I didn't know dogs sold for that much! Not that they're not worth it (whatever dollar amount he's worth now with all that training doesn't come close to what he's really worth!). 
I'm definitely not a farm gal, but I'd like to visit some farms. I'd like to go to one where the animals are not killed or abused. Not sure how many kinds of farms run like that, but there are some that just take care of the animals. Like Farm Sanctuary. I'd love to "meet" some horses, donkeys, chickens, and whatever else is in residence. Maybe not a bull. They're a little scary. |