ENDED - OFFICIAL CONTEST: What's the BEST/WORST HERDING/LIVESTOCK KEEPING TIP You Have Received?

[samssimonsays]

Best: If you treat your animals well, they will reward you beyond your wildest imaginations.

 

[samssimonsays]

Best: It is about Quality, not quantity.

 

[Baymule]

WORST:
Aren't you too old to be riding horses?

(I was 54 and telling Sunday adult class about getting thrown off a horse and losing my glasses in the tall grass. Ha! I am now 60 and STILL RIDING.)

 

[samssimonsays]

Best: You never go wrong by doing right but if you think you're always right, you're wrong.

 

[mirandaleecon]

Worst: All you gotta do is give them sweet feed and they'll be fine. -the man who sold me 3 goats, one of whom was already on deaths door, RIP William H. Bonnie.

 

[Chicken Girl]

Worst: Own multiple roosters

 

[Chicken Girl]

Best: Do research about the animal before you get it

 

[HomesteaderWife]

Best Advice: Take your shoes off at the door, or you'll track chicken poop in the house.

(God bless my grandmother, she was my role model and inspired me to live a homestead life. This is one SIMPLE lesson she taught me at a young age, and it is very true. I have never forgotten it, and have taken my shoes off at the door all my life. Even at a time when I didn't have chickens, I would do it out of habit! I find myself telling my husband this all the time. What happens when he doesn't follow that advice? Just look at the floor- I've got some sweeping to do... )

 

[Southern by choice]

WORST:
This advice was given to my friend by her VET!

"The scours can't be coccidia because it's not that time of year- just give some pepto and antibiotic"

BTW it was a 6 month old kid- my friend had the fecal tested somewhere else... loaded!

 

[Southern by choice]

BEST:

"No animal is worth your life! Your safety comes FIRST!"