How many of you have "real" jobs outside of your farm?

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

I am disabled so I stay home. I do most of the chores with the help of my disabled teen (epilepsy, autism and more). Hubby works for phone company.

We sell eggs, goat babies, chicks, chickens when we have them. Have goat babies now for sale (nigerian dwarfs, 3 girls, 2 boys) but haven't advertised yet. Finally have enough money to fence in and create paddocks on our little 2 acres, and to plant enough food for us for a year. We don't expect to sell enough produce or chicks, etc to have Hubby retire, mostly because I'm a hermit and don't like dealing with customers unless absolutely necessary, but I also write in my "spare" time. Hoping THAT will someday allow Hubby to retire so he can take over chores.

 

[secuono]

We are on a hilly[mountain] of 4.89 acres. Only 2.5 acres usable by horses, rest better for the sheep. Horses & sheep eat nothing but grass, some hay in winter. Rabbits & guinea pigs get tons of grass to help lower feed costs. Birds free range every day for 5+ hours, also to reduce feed costs.

I work part time to pay for my animals. Fiance works full time for all his random stuff, the house, his car, credit card debt and his anything else bills. Lol. My bills are just my animals and my gas to get to work, oh and my food. =p

My farm will, or should I say because of this crappy economy, should sell and make some sort of a profit.

Sheep sell for $500 each. Wool can be sold or used to make things. And a wether or two will be our meat and sold to family and others.

Rabbits are for our meat, sell live animals & make pelts.

Chickens were meat/pets, now just pets as they grow too slow to be worth anything else for us. Feathers are for kitty toys. Eggs are for ourselves and to sell to family and possibly others.

Ducks, got 4 as pets & for eggs. I buy ducklings to grow for food and the feathers are for home made pillows and kitty toys.

Two Guinea hens are pets. Two Guinea pigs are pets. Two dogs as crazy annoying pets. Two cats as annoying pets. Two horses are just huge pets. Four fish tanks as mainly pets. Plants and snails are sold for $.

Tree branches are harvested to sell and use for rabbits to chew on. Mulberrys can be eaten by people, so they are sold as well and used to soak rabbit chew sticks in.

Rabbit & guinea pig poop is used for the garden.

Garden is mainly to feed my fish, some of the pets and to sell to family.

Fiance is too much of a baby to eat home grown greens or meat. But this next year he will, one way or another. *evil laugh*

 

[KellyHM]

My farm is currently a hobby, although without losing a couple of my best gals to dogs this year the goats may have broken even. As it is, they didn't. DH works full time and I work a full time emergency (nights/weekends) job plus a part time day job. I'm getting ready to leave the day job and just go back to nights - I like it much better and it gives me more time at home during the day with my "farm."

My dad, on the other hand, makes his living from cattle and orange groves, so farming runs in the family, and I do hope to be able to expand my little farm one day. I will always work some though - I didn't go to vet school and a lot of money in debt just to farm.