Hello everyone in the wonderful homesteading community. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the weather wherever you are. It is so nice to see this community progressing and its members growing stronger.
I must say that I’ve really missed visiting this community. My school just resumed about 2 weeks ago. I have been choked up with schoolwork and was unable to do anything.
I decided to check on this lovely community today and see if I could learn a thing or two. I wasn’t surprised that I saw new members and their beautiful posts. It is clear proof that the community is growing daily.
The last time I shared an update in this community was when I talked about my maize farm. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to share an update on when the Maize was harvested. This is because I wasn’t at home and my cousin did all the work.
We harvested 5 baskets full of maize. Amazing, right? I know it might be small to some people, but it was really a big deal for us. We grow maize for commercial purposes, but for subsistence purposes. We dashed some out and we ground about 2 baskets (we used them to make pap, popularly known as “Ogi” in the part of the country where I live.
In this article, I’ll share an update on my goat farm.
As a homesteader, it is very important to know the benefits of goat farming. Goats are one of the most rewarding animals you can rear. People mostly believe goats do nothing but destroy. But if you take good care of them, you’ll definitely reap the results.
I live in a community where most people frown against goat rearing. There was a time when almost all the houses in my area reared goats. The goats weren’t caged, so they’d go about eating people’s crops, entering houses, and destroying things. The people became angry and reported the issue to the community chairman. At last, a strong rule was made “anyone who rears goats should make sure they are caged / remain in the compound or they’d be killed.
Unfortunately, one of my goats (a pregnant goat) went out of the compound and was killed by the street thugs. I actually don’t know how it happened because I wasn’t at home at that time. But when I got home, my cousins told me the story and I was really sad and angry about it.
Of course, the guys that killed the goat were very happy about it. It wasn’t the first time they’d do something like that. They’ve killed a lot of goats that wander on the street. They don’t care about the owner and all that he has done to date for it, all they care about is the meat they’d eat.
Well, even though I lost one of my goats, I still have 5 more. And I’ll make sure nothing happens to them.
Here’s a picture of the cage my cousins and I built for our goats using local materials.
ALL IMAGES IN THIS ARTICLE ARE MINE
Thanks for reading.
