Tapsmom
Loving the herd life
Hello everyone. We are new to having multiple livestock and my horse just moved home. Now we have 4 ND goats, 10 chickens, a horse and 2 dogs. What do you do when you go away on vacation? We haven't gone in a few years but we have small children so we will certainly take some. I am planning ahead and looking for ideas on what everyone does. I am currently just looking at other small farmers and basically setting up a network of us that will care for each other's critters when we go away. My daughters are also in 4H so that ia another avenue I am looking at. If you pay someone for the week to stop in 2 times a day. what would you pay them? (If we choose that option we will probably have the dogs stay with some friends.) We have our critters set up so it takes about a half hour 2 times a day to care for them. I am looking for ides and planning ahead. We generally only go away for a week and probably 1 or 2 evenings a year.