Will I Raise Livestock Here and Where Do I Get My Meat?
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- I'm asked often, will I raise livestock on this wilderness homestead for our protein (beef, pork, chicken, lamb, goat, rabbit, waterfowl), and if not, from where do I get meat.
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I love your vision for food. I grew up on a farm. For a family of eleven, we raised chickens, pigs, had a dairy and canned or froze everything. The boys hunted. Sometimes, it got a little lean. Your thinking ahead with your family members! I applaud you. 👏
I can imagine that predators might also pose a problem for any livestock you might choose to raise. Especially chickens, quail, and rabbits.
Hello dear🖐🖐how are you doing today I hope all is well god bless you❤❤Garett Robertson
It’s wonderful that your sister and your wife and daughters are also enjoying this way of living.
Thanks for this upload.
Just got a bit of bad news 😒 so escapism to the cabin with you and Cali is much welcomed.
Can always count of you guys to raise spirits
mark1878 whatever it is, I hope you find success and some sense of community here.
@,Mark. Sending best wishes your way. Peace ✌
As you mention, feed is definitely the biggest issue with keeping animals. I'm in a mediterranean climate so my feed issues are sort of the other way around in that food is abundant in our wet winters and springs and scarce in the hot dry summer and early autumn/fall. The other issue with animals is that you can't just leave them alone for a few days, you have to check on them every day.
I got a few chickens the other year to see how they'd go free-ranging on my 20 acres. Turns out that they don't like being out in the open and that no matter how much food they forage, they still need to consume feed to produce eggs. The amount of feed they consume doesn't vary much between winter and summer and a single chicken eats about 40kg of feed per year.
I've had rabbits for a few months now and they consume a phenomenal amount of feed even though they're confined to a large cage. (3m by 1.2m). They eat about 1/3 of their weight in feed per day. On the plus side, if they are eating fresh feed they don't need water and their manure is dynamite for the garden and doesn't need to be composted before application like chicken manure.
Shawn, I have been told many years ago when we went camping with the kids, that "smoke" follows beauty" ! So glad to hear you are going to have animals to feed your family. I have been watching several families that have goats and they really don't eat that much grass and they do like leaves and shrubs too.
Wishing the best on all you have done all these years with gardens, and planting of trees for fruits.
Slowly but surely, I’m getting my land ready. I’m near an Amish community so I have so many resources. Thanks again for all you’ve taught me. I have much more confidence in myself now that I can do this…(at my age, I’m no spring chicken 😉🤭)
Hello dear🖐🖐how are you doing today I hope all is well god bless you❤❤the truth lady
It's easy to see past the practicality of actual farming on a homestead. Animals are a lot of fun but they require incredible amounts of effort. The disgraceful neighbors at your last cabin were a blessing in disguise, keep up the solid work ethic and thank you for taking the time to keep us informed.
Do you eat ducks? My parents raised ducks. My parents never fed their ducks. Their ducks would browse the gardens, eating the insects and other pests. Yet, they never damaged my parents plants. The ducks also fed on water plants in their pond.
Ducks and Gooses are Good!
Checkens also.
Ducks are the best for keeping garden pests away. Chickens just destroy the plants.
And all of them attract hungry predators…. My friends raised chickens, and one night they all were taken by a bear…
@@nemo2203 The House for the Chickens must be hardend!
Hello dear🖐🖐how are you doing today I hope all is well god bless you❤❤
I think buying local meet to supplement wild game is the best idea, since you know your land and what its capable of.
I love what you teach me. Grass fed, grass finished. Thank you so very much.
The secret to success on Homesteads, is to accept what you have and adapt. If you bring your dreams and try to 'force fit', well those homesteads don't survive (my take). There are pluses and minuses to any piece of land. If you are grateful for what you have, you can prosper anywhere. Thanks 4 sharing. Health and God Bless!
Thank you , Shawn .
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We were talking and laughing about you guys yesterday, and how the soundtrack is always so good.
You nailed with the When We Met today.
Love watching you get it done, the Kids, Leon, the Dogs, and the Bedtime Story with the Turkey clips.
Something in my eye (Ellie and the Turkey, man oh man)
Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Idk why but your voice makes me relax I’m a very high strung high anxiety person and I appreciate it !!
How nice to have a video from you today, I was so pleased, thank you 🙏
I couldn't grow anything on my little quarter acre eleven years ago. Fast forward and I have developed rich productive soil by composting in raised beds. You will have the carbon at hand, but if you add pig manure, or rabbit manure, then you will also have the nitrogen necessary to build enriched soil. Always appreciate how much you are sharing with us. Thank you again, Liz
I’ve read that any meat from an animal that has eaten nothing but grass (no grain) is a complete food that does not require augmenting with vegetables or anything else. It’s a complete food.
Grain fed animals do require additional sources of nutrition.
it's funny how a pile of Sh...t makes your food tastes better
@Steve Paige especially given some good old beer
make your own opening
Why is the carbon content of the soil even a concern?
So many options seem available but your research makes smart protein decisions. Appreciate the “doing” lessons for independent living. So much more than the cabin.
Keep having fun, mouth was watering looking at that grill full
The last shot 13:51 looks so good. Fresh is in your vocabulary no matter what the ingredients
Shawn, I always thought you,& your family ate very well. You’re at an advantage in these times we’re living in.👍🏾😀
SHAWN & OUR CALI this is something to see you here !!! Left a channel from Alaska when I saw Your channel's Name I came running !!! To SEE OUR CALI is something and to learn from you is Grand !!! Been listening to you SHAWN !!! Pigs only take 2-3 months to grow!!! Same with Chickens for meat chickens 2 months for you then taking them and putting them into the freezer same with turkeys from babies to large size to have !!! Yeah I know that grass fed about that !!! What cows eat they poop then they give back to the soil for us !!!
In northern Alberta there are a lot of attempts to resolve the issues you are facing. They have tamed elk and buffalo along with some cross breeds of elk/deer and cow/buffalo and these are domesticated fenced in animals that do primarily sustain from grazing in terrain similar to yours along with some supplement of hay and grain.
EXCELLENT DECISIONS !
That food looks absolutely delicious! And, I'm sure, tastes especially yummy being cooked and eaten out of doors. You're amazing, Shawn!
I raised Dark Cornish Pulits with two small light 4'X10' chicken tractors 20 birds per tractor on 1/4 acre. I moved the tractors every day over new brows that they would eat down to bare ground leaving the patch tilled firtalized and weeded. I only suplemented there diet with kitchen scraps. I also moved them through the garden as needed to clear till debug and make firtle for a new crop. It gave me from early spring to the first hard snow in winter well over two chickens per week the last batch I would process and would stay frozen outside in the smokehouse until needed.
I watch you for the building, and find that part relaxing, but always fast forward through your meals and hunting scenes. As an 81 year old, 60 year vegetarian, I doubt I could live without a community to provide food that I cannot produce on my own, nor would I want to.
I grow most of my food, but depend on others to provide foods that are just not feasible, such as tofu, for a single person to produce on their on.
Even though I feel that building with logs is a waste of timber, because many, many homes could be built from the logs you use for a single cabin, the building process , and your craftsmanship keeps me watching.
Lookin good Shawn....glad you have such healthy food.
Livestock can tie one down routine daily maintenance and costs involved ..
Time will tell for the needs you want and can obtain .
Your well on you way to make things easier , play wait and C ...
Time to Live with what you've done , be proud Mr. James , It's Awesome . take care .
ENJOY ALL !! 👍
It's been a while since I've watched a stream. I'd forgotten how inspirational these streams are. Shawn isn't a Doomer, he's a Do-er. Let the world go mad. Spend your calories on things that better your family, your community and you.
That’s a great start and an awesome idea Shawn and thanks for sharing. Blessings! 😎😎😎🤩🤩🤩✅✅✅💯💯💯🙌🙌🙌
It takes a lot of acreage and a ton of work to be sustainable. The reality is it is more realistic to have community, where each one can add to the larger picture. That is the hardest thing I think for people to understand.
Thankyou, Shawn.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy life to give me your reply
Thanks for the video😀
We fed rabbits a lot of stuff from garden during growing season. They produce great manure for the gardens. In the winter they get all the trimming scrapes and a lot of leftover veggie stuff so we didn't have to buy very much in rabbit pellet food or baled hay. Rabbit meat is great stuff and a change from eating other meats. You could also in your case do temporary cages in the greenhouse for them during some of the winter months.
You’re a hard worker, Shawn!
I've had chickens. We only needed grain in winter. The rest of the year they were happy foraging in the dirt for grubs, insects, etc. and eating most kitchen scraps. I also had miniature meat goats for years. They didn't touch grass but were great at eating weeds and scrubby stuff. Being small they didn't take much room, but you do have to have a breeding pair. And really strong fences. They also need selenium supplements, their hooves trimmed, dewormer, horns removed and castration. They were a lot of work and a pain in the butt to be honest.
Thank you
Great update video, thanks 👍👍😁
Mercury levels in northern ontario lakes aren't low. So one needs to be careful how much fish is eaten per week.
Great info. And fantastic lookin spread you cooked up there.
Have you considered using the greenhouse and the existing water system, to grow Tilapia, trout, perch or barramundi in an aquaponics system? It’s a closed loop that would work well with the homestead concepts. You can use the waste filtration for nitrogen feed, grow and water the plants in the greenhouse, and obviously eat the meat of the fish year round. For feed, you can use the vegetable and plant scraps and still have enough for compost, but crickets and meal worms both help break down the plant matter as well as make excellent food for the fish. Hope that helps! Love the channel (both of them) and keep up the good work!
👍👍 - soil conditions really dictate what can and can not be done. thanks for sharing
Gosh, I wish this were me right now. I'm working 7 days straight this week. I can relax a bit over my lunch break watching this, though. :)
Upper Michigan is blessed to have the beech/maple hardwoods, where the topsoil runs deep and is very fertile. By far the most productive habitat in our northwoods. It's s where the majority of the game animals reside, also. Northern hardwoods with access to a water source having waterfowl and fish, makes life a lot easier. Now, finding and affording this kind place is a whole different issue. Lol
Between garden scraps and natural feed like insects, I would think it would be worth it to buy feed needed for chickens for the winter months. Or any excess garden abundance could be bartered for chicken feed or beef and pork. But like you said, that is not in your immediate future anyway. Between gardening and finishing construction, you’ll be busy for the next 2 years. You do quite well for protein from fish and game. Looking forward to more cabin work! The cabin is awesome, and a big upgrade from the last one! Very exciting to watch.
i cant wait to see your outdoor kitchen when you have completed it....
Quel endroit. Magnifique ❤️,🇫🇷
thanks for sharing
THANK YOU for a fine commentary on the realities of raising protein in marginal areas. IF I liked goat better, I would recommend that. I DO like goat's milk cheese. Goats are also protective of other livestock, such as poultry. You have plenty of understory for them to control by browsing.
Very informative; I've been curious mostly about the chickens. Thank you for your video! Appreciated and necessary.
I love Canada I just want you to know that and I love watching you I watched you from day one and one major thing that we love here in Indiana is we love our guns! Watching you the other day on your front porch of your log cabin you got a bow and arrow you got nice and you got that shotgun that I loved for Your safety! I hope one day to move to Canada I am a licensed electrician in Indiana… But I love Canada
Raising livestock is definitely a must in an off grid situation like you have there. It makes the place a full self-sustaining environment, with the livestock providing the much needed nutrients for your garden and the garden provides for both you and the livestock.
@Juan Calleja
Well there you are. Not so, according to Shawn. He's just proven your theory completely wrong. He and his family are going to rely on harvesting their meat from the wild. Makes much more sense and is much more sustainable.
Tonight we had Angus beef...but it was PC burgers on the barbee lol. The tomato salad, the cuc salad and the fried Swiss chard were from the garden. Still 'roughing it' though. As the kitchen is still being remodeled, I have to do dishes in the bathroom sink. At least we're back in the house now - from living in the hybrid trailer - so there's that. At 70, I'm not as rugged as I used to be.
Hi! I am a long time follower from south Louisiana USA. We just butchered a 10 month old 3/4 Dexter 1/4 Jersey bull. He was born here from his mom, our halfJersey, half Dexter milk cow and AI'd with a Dexter bull from KY. He was 100% grass/hay fed. He yielded 534 lbs hanging weight. Even the fellows at the butchers were amazed. Meat is delicious. We have plenty pasture land here. We also have chickens for eggs. We have raised meat chickens which are ready to be processed at 10 - 12 weeks. The brooding time is short but intense. They grow so fast they are easy to over feed after they are out in the coop. We have problems with heat down here, none with cold. Even we have given up our meat birds. A lot of work and they can have problems quickly and loose them after all your hard work. Anyway, I get your justification for husbandry pluses and minuses! Blessings and continued best of luck. I continue to enjoy all your videos!
My wife won’t let me take any animals we raise 😅
Shawn, Sounds like a great plan to go in with your sister on the raising of livestock. You could help out with the funding and let her do the raising of the stock, then benefit at harvest time. Then you can still get what you can off the land by hunting. Nothing better than grass fed beef and fresh eggs, yea venison kicks butt also. Take Care Brother
Thankyou.
Another great video 👍👍
Simple Living Alaska is having good luck with Icelandic Chickens. They do make their own feed.
Rabbit meat is too lean to be really sustainable for people.
Are you going to have one of the washing machines that runs off solar, it’s a very nice machine with a side for rinsing also and it spins out most of the water which can be reused on both the washing and rinsing sides, it rings the clothes so dry that when they’re hung even inside they dry within 1hr. Almost faster than a dryer. The couple in Alaska uses that machine, they are off grid and use solar for electricity and wood heat and propane for cooking. She demonstrated the machine on a couple of videos, check it out! Much love to all, y’all will make a great life off grid, you’re prepared and willing to overcome the worst of times if need be, best wishes to y’all.
I love Shawn, real person, great attitude, skills oozing from his skin! He and the family eat very well. He plans years in advance.
I'd say the first to try, if wild harvest falls at all sort, are pigs.
They eat anything and produce great fertiliser to improve the soil - and they turn waste into fertiliser faster than any compost heap I've ever seen.
You can section up your garden and put them on one part at a time to cultivate it, as they will use all the weeds as food and root around until it is cleared and fertilised.
They are natural woodland animals and will graze as well in woodland as in more traditional pastures - and you have lots of woodlands.
Acorns and other forest produce can be fed in winter - if you even keep them through winter.
They have a great conversion rate from feed to meat relative to ruminants.
Downsides:
Collecting acorns for winter feed at a busy time of year. Mitigate by buying a couple of weaners (a month or so old) in the spring, and slaughtering before or just after the snow flies - when you run out of feed, pretty much, and they should be a decent weight if they have enough forage (a couple on a quarter of your garden would probably be fine, especially with kitchen scraps and some acorns thrown in - which they will appreciate - or even putting a harness on them and tethering them on an acorn-rich part of the forest during the day). The smaller the garden area you give them the more thoroughly they will cultivate it by rooting and "fertilising".
Fencing - lots of it, and tightly spaced. If you use them as garden cultivators in the main, that can be minimised, or you can use running tethers and harnesses. You can't put a collar on a pig.
Pigs are ornery - the term pig-headed exists for a reason. No getting around that!
great as usual............thank U so much
IT WAS nice to rest for few minutes next to the fire whit JAMES...🤗
Perhaps you could add some dried beans, rice, steel cut oatmeal and cornmeal into your storage.
My friend raised quails, she lived in a trailer park.
She would pickel the eggs, and sale them.
Thay were good I liked them .
I never knew that about the grass fed verses finished fed. Thank you Shawn for always sharing. Have a wonderful week. Dinner looks yummy. Getting ready for a hurricane here in fl.
Erm.. what?
Yeah me to i live right on river below tampa. Looks like ian's gonna hit us hard. 🙏
@@dlspiritdancer9548 my daughter is in tampa bay area. We are new to fl. We are in fort meyers. Area. I am scared
@@jeanettec6212 i was here in hurr Irma. The wind was scary but our lights only flickered off 2 Xs but that wasnt the case everywhere. Lots of ppl had elec out for 2wks. Tho in this hurr i live in a diff area. Its supp to hit tampa unless it turns by chance/prayer☺. Since ur in ft meyers you will most likely get much wind & storm surge. If they say evacuate, pls listen bc one never knows as every hurricane is different. You can always go to shelters which are usu inland away from ocean. Stay safe & you & ur fam will be in my 🙏s. God bless, we'll get thru it! But prepare for it. 😁
@@dlspiritdancer9548 thank you. Ive been in prayer all week and all night. Im hoping for the rapture! Feast of trumpets is supposed to be the same time as a Shemita cycle 7 years. Unless everyone is wrong on the Shemita cycle being this year the new cycle starts for Israel, on Feast of trumpets, same time as the hurricane hits. . . I don’t know what Gods will is. Thank you again.
Shawn, your videos (both channels)are truly keeping me sane. In these extremely troubling times(USA), watching you build and garden brings back so many memories from my childhood. My daddy was a carpenter and a gardener. I’m a 69 year old grandma, but I can hear the handsaw and smell the fresh cut wood and sawdust when I watch you. I can remember kneeling next to him while he planted, thanks to your videos. My life has taken many twists and turns, but for a short time when I was about 50, I was blessed to live on 148 acres…not off grid, though the nearest neighbor was over two miles away. I learned much about myself while on that land. Most was forest, and we raised and trained hunting dogs, so we walked that land every day. There is something that connects you, makes you one with the land. Anyway, all this to say thank you for sharing what you do! I am sure I’m not alone in saying how much your videos mean to so many! Blessings to you and your family!
Just a couple of things to consider for you. Duck week has more protein per kg than Soybean and pigs eat it. it grows stupidly (Exponentially) fast in summer you may be able to dry it for winter. Not sure if you can do this maybe in the greenhouse tank, would help keep the fish in there happy too as they take the waste product from the fish out of the water, chickens will eat it too but only if there is nothing else to eat, But black solider fly larva is great chicken feed and you can have an enclosed growing cage over compost you provide but they only bread and survive in above 25deg C but you can dry the larva for chicken feed, HUGE amounts of protein, pigs I guess would eat them too.
Look forward to some new benches or seats around firepit, no doubt have lots of leftover sections from loghouse "ends" chopped off. Maybe try adding a set of steel pipes (or one with branches) with an elbow buried at angle toward opposite sides of pit to guide airflow in a spiral or tornado effect like most of the Stainless Steel firepits do ? It seems to reduce the "smoke following you" effect. Is building a retention pond down near meadow level an option Shawn ? I'm thinking of a banked area, with a liner or clay if available; adjacent to stream so it's just a few feet deep which would get filled either with seasonal rises or with a small pumps assistance intermittently.
We do ducks and geese, muscovies and mallard-type ducks. I'd recommend muscovies, mostly since they don't need a lot (or any) of added food three months out of the year. They don't do well in severe cold, though, so you'd have to have a heated area for them for the winter. They also raise their own, can fly, and can defend themselves. They easily go feral down south, so it's not like they have to have the corn ours adore. It's probably just too cold up where you are.
Canning that meat would be a good idea. Just saying.
Re: chickens, my son lives on a cooperative farm and they feed their chickens "kitchen scraps" with chicken feed as a secondary. You didn't mention that approach.
Thanks for the upload. Where we live (Belgium) there are plenty of places to get this grass fed/finished meat, but it is extremely expensive. Most people just can't afford it. We only eat chicken and fish, and just for comparison- a chicken from a regular store costs 9 euro per kg. A chicken from an organic farm, raised outside, butchered later than 42 days- costs 26 euro per kg. I really don't know how many people can afford these prices, and when we are talking about sustainable way to raise these volumes- It's not possible. I think that this is something people should think about.
"No man is an island." Cooperation will be needed for success.
Let your meat wander in and take a bow to it. No land needed except keep being a good steward of your land.
Sounds like you have an adventure ahead of you.
Hemp grows anywhere and you can pelletize it for animal feed. Also, porcupine would do good there they eat bark off trees if you could domesticate them to a degree.
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I do think you should give rabbits a shot. The manure would help your soil tremendously and getting hay locally shouldn't be too hard or costly relative to other livestock. Also, they are very quiet which should work well given your environment.
Hi Shawn, The only animal(s) that I think would survive your homestead would be rabbits and goats. I think domesticated animals, pigs, chickens, cows etc… could survive but would require significant more effort. One idea would be, populate your surrounding area with ducks, geese, pheasant, rabbits as wild food source for hunting. I also like the idea of purchasing land nearby and create a domesticated farm.
You are like an ensiclopeadia (don't know if that's spelt correctly, sorry 🤭) of knowledge. So incredibly interesting to just sit and listen to you. X
Encyclopedia, I think is what you meant to spell. Just saying....
@@sharonpuder608 Yes that's the one. Thanks 😊
I like your talks Shawn they are educational dr Ken Berry talks about the grass fed animals so you have done your research!!
And wanted to say the cabin looks nice I like the burned wood it matches the Logs!
I’ve experienced for a period of time in my life Vegan and vegetarian nutrition. It has been very helpful in supporting my health. I’ve btw learned that our bodies need carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, fats, vitamins and so much more... and that they are always available in Nature every season according to the natural flow of Life. I’m a farmer and I’m learning every day that...! So maybe you could consider the fact that proteins could be also vegetal proteins, that can be integrated in your daily meal along with animals ones. So you could benefit of more nutrients and being less worry to find game or other animals food. It’s just an idea... that is just my way of nourish myself. Metabolism changes along the time. Growing older requires more attention to micronutrients and super food in our diet. Good luck! ❤
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@@emilyjessica1681 I’m fine thank you and you?
Enjoy your burgers. Grass fed, grass finished. Thanks for the tip.
Very nice supper.
I wonder if you could chop up your food crop stalks and scraps and dehydrate it so it's like a dried grain meal and feed that to chickens, goats, etc. Mix in some bone meal maybe.
Is dry aging meat a good way to store meat and make it last longer?
Could you build a dam like the beavers did to make a large pond there? It would be good for fishing and help attract more water fowl for hunting. A sweet dock with a wooden island would make it a sweet swimming hole too. I bet your missing the pond at the old place. You could also get some hydropower out of it.
Going in on land and cows could cost a lot more than just going into town and buying beef. Even over the long term.
hey Shawn, how about to open two or four acres of dry land to grow grains like organic corn and soybeans and leave a little for wheat or oats for family consumption and dozens of pigs and chickens over a year, I've seen farmers in developing countries do this and they live in the middle of the forest almost independently, I believe farming while living in the forest is still sustainable if small farms are in fences and cages
Maybe try barter for meat beef ,chicken, pork . Plus don't forget you can/jar beef or chicken and pigs hang well if you like capicoli etc.... animals are a lot of babysitting. Plant some wild turkeys in your area or stock your lake with minnows.
Well thought out. Barter has it’s place so the obvious way to supplement your diet. Also…animals are a lot of work beyond feeding them. I want your life to not be a burden as the years go by.
I think your idea of buying local meat is a wise. Also I know you are a hunter as well and I think the wild meat is very good for you and your family. I think you have everything figered out as well as maybe eggs and maybe milk for making butter and cheese from a local farmer as well if possible if not then getting by with organic butter and cheese from store if you want or need it.
there are a lot of heritage breeds of turkey, chicken, and pigs out there, and some that could work for you.
Hey Shawn, Long time follower but likely won’t see my comment. I kept chickens for many years in a wooded area. You don’t need pasture for poultry and other animals to be successful. Best of luck to you.
Yes,,,,you can do it,specialy Chicken,Goat,Duck, like other vlogers in the Moutain they have many Animals almost them are eating grass try it
Thanks for reading and acting on my comment. Message conveyed. Take care.
Goats are a good option if you also want to milk them and make a bit of cheese, or just have some healthy milk for other cooking purposes...
Beaver meat is also an option. It is delicious and quite easy to trap.
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