| ▲ | threetonesun 2 days ago | |||||||||||||
Raising animals to eat for meat is a very different endeavor than raising them for milk/eggs. Especially if you eat meat daily (or more than once a day!), do some mental math on how many animals you'd need to sustain yourself. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lsaferite 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Not to mention, raising meat chickens is sad. We've bread them to gorge themselves so they bulk up fast. That results in essentially morbidly obese chickens. We ended up with two on accident and they couldn't even climb the ramp into the coop after a few weeks. The just gorged and sat around in the dirt. It was very sad. Raising non-meat chickens takes a lot longer and the meat output is much lower. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | giantg2 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Anyways, one buck and 2-3 doe rabbits can give you something like 300+ pounds of meat per year. Close to a pound a day would be sufficient for most people. Of course you aren't going to eat only one thing, so you will have other sources of meat for variety | ||||||||||||||