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I like the Alpines. Those and Saanans are some of my favorite dairy goats lookwise

Do you want milk or milk and lots of butterfat?

Tell her that it's $_.__ per duck to raise, and you need payment on hatch day to buy their feed. If she backs out on hatch day, you could probably still get something for ducklings

Makes me miss my wether. He was tricolor and mostly white

Oh the tricolor in the top pic is stunning

Yep, it's his doing that's making all the does. Guess he knows he might be usurped by a son

They're on my list I'd like to get when i have my homestead. Not to show, for personal use (meat, hides and maybe fiber) and to sell, they're just so pretty.

Have you looked into silkied myotonic?

My goat is pretty behaved when it Comes to fencing and jumping, but she's a mess anatomically so she probably just can't physically jump like normal goats do

How did I end up with more pens this draft? :th Less 'buildings' though since I cut bird breeds down by like 80%

That's good to hear. Makes me a bit less nervous considering trying to keep my own males for breeding

Let me know how keeping a boar is. I'll keep guineas in mind on my list too

How is the Guinea hog? They caught my eye a few times looking at pictures. Are you sending her off to be bred or borrowing a boar? Or is AI an option like with cattle? Glad to hear that pigs don't seem to be super loud constantly.

The wooly pigs seem to be the most friendly of the 3. I've seen some farms call them doglike and mild tempered. Behavior will definitely be the main factor on deciding if I end up keeping males. Rams are scary enough, and they're herbivores.

Honestly potbellies are probably the size I really want, I just really dislike their look. They just look wormy to me with those bellies

Mangalica is a big one. If I have any pigs at all, I will have some of these. Admittedly huge amd slower growing,, but they have a novelty too with their wooly hides. I also (of course) like the Yucatan Hairless, but I guess that one was mainly bred for research and no longer is kept commonly...

Yeah, I "planned" on my paper to have a pair of females or a breeding trio (again, depending on just what all breeding entails) per breed, with lots of room to try and keep the smell less absurd

I was looking into smaller (lol, as if pigs could possibly be small) breeds and was astounded by how big even the 'mini' breeds were. I found 3 (admittedly rare) breeds that I liked so far, the trick now if i decide to add then to the list will be finding breeders

Are they very loud typically? Or just when they get excited or upset?

Do you get new ones each year for meat, or breed your own? I would love to raise a few breeds (if I could find them), but all I can really find is commercial info or people that keep the tiny ones as pets