As all my family and friends can agree, my decision making skills are all over the board. When making relatively easy decisions I find myself at a loss and take the logical way of thinking to make my final decision and end up going home feeling slightly annoyed and unsatisfied. But when it comes to my future homestead, oh I've got YEARS before any of that comes to fruition. So my special other has taken the full circle of farm animals that are right for us with me (even the ones I said I would NEVER consider; bless his soul). We started with goats, traveled to sheep, progressed to rabbits, spun out to cattle, peeked at pigs, and ended back up at goats. He stopped me from going full circle AGAIN (my indecisiveness drives him crazy).
Then when we both decided goats would be a good animal to meet our future family's needs, it was choosing what kind of goat. After reading about La Mancha goats (pronounced la-mon-cha) I became fascinated with them. But did we need full size goats, or would minis better suit our home? Right now the standard size goats fit our future needs, I think. But I didn't want to have to sell lots of baby goats. Why not eat some of the offspring like most of the world does? So that took me down another lane of goat breeds. We will cross our dairy goats with a meat buck, so the kids will be worth the space in the freezers. I went on a full on research quest of meat goats since I hadn't researched them yet.
At first Kiko goats looked to be the bomb, but the bucks are known to be aggressive, and we definitely don't want to worry about the kiddos getting into Mr. Buck's pasture. I was avoiding Boers for the longest times because I don't like following trends. After reading about the many qualities of myotonic goats and their likeliness to stay inside the fences, we settled down. So at the moment it looks like our goat dream will be three La Mancha does and a Myotonic buck with a wether friend.
He thought that I was completely content with a couple goats, and so did I. Until I saw the cutest pictures of Kune Kune pigs and an amazing informative article on them. I just knew at that moment that they would fit in on our small homestead. At first he was against it, but after some convincing he came around. I told him I wouldn't waver on the breed of pig I wanted, and I haven't. He's such a kind, understanding soul.
I also tend to have a creative streak when it comes to designing. It becomes a bit of annoyance when we have both settled on a house design, but I saw a cool picture and got even more ideas. It takes a while but I eventually come to agree with him that this final design (the fifth one in the last three days) is good. So far I've been able to settle and be happy with my drawn floor plans so all has been call in that department.
But even when I feel like I have every detail planned out, sometimes I just feel the need for change....
Then when we both decided goats would be a good animal to meet our future family's needs, it was choosing what kind of goat. After reading about La Mancha goats (pronounced la-mon-cha) I became fascinated with them. But did we need full size goats, or would minis better suit our home? Right now the standard size goats fit our future needs, I think. But I didn't want to have to sell lots of baby goats. Why not eat some of the offspring like most of the world does? So that took me down another lane of goat breeds. We will cross our dairy goats with a meat buck, so the kids will be worth the space in the freezers. I went on a full on research quest of meat goats since I hadn't researched them yet.
At first Kiko goats looked to be the bomb, but the bucks are known to be aggressive, and we definitely don't want to worry about the kiddos getting into Mr. Buck's pasture. I was avoiding Boers for the longest times because I don't like following trends. After reading about the many qualities of myotonic goats and their likeliness to stay inside the fences, we settled down. So at the moment it looks like our goat dream will be three La Mancha does and a Myotonic buck with a wether friend.
He thought that I was completely content with a couple goats, and so did I. Until I saw the cutest pictures of Kune Kune pigs and an amazing informative article on them. I just knew at that moment that they would fit in on our small homestead. At first he was against it, but after some convincing he came around. I told him I wouldn't waver on the breed of pig I wanted, and I haven't. He's such a kind, understanding soul.
I also tend to have a creative streak when it comes to designing. It becomes a bit of annoyance when we have both settled on a house design, but I saw a cool picture and got even more ideas. It takes a while but I eventually come to agree with him that this final design (the fifth one in the last three days) is good. So far I've been able to settle and be happy with my drawn floor plans so all has been call in that department.
But even when I feel like I have every detail planned out, sometimes I just feel the need for change....