What Are Your Top Animal Farming Resolutions for the Coming Year?

[BYH Project Manager]

As the new year approaches, it’s the perfect time to reflect and set goals for the months ahead. Whether it’s improving animal care, expanding your farm, or learning something new, resolutions help keep us motivated and focused. Let’s share our plans and get inspired by each other’s goals!

Once you’ve voted, tell us more about your resolution in the comments. Let’s make 2025 a year of growth, innovation, and success!

 

[Mini Horses]

Expand the home grown feed efforts. Anything helps! That's my biggest expense! I work to buy hay
I'm sure that's true for most of us who do not have their own hay equipment or grain production. Everything cost more, I understand the prices. Gotta cut those expenses a little. Yes, reducing herd size too.

 

[SageHill]

The plan for 2025 is to build a new night enclosure for lambs/grow outs, or rams. Placing it in the small arena that is near the barn would make that area more useful and give a good place to wean lambs. I'd love to be able to grow food for them - but outside of the current natural and native vegetation it's not an option with the cost of water here. So Cal is semi arid, and in a drought on top of it. Add in the addition of cookie cutter homes taking over farm land and having lush lawns makes it even tougher.
While I'm still growing my flock, I'm getting pickier about what I keep - which is probably a natural progression.
I've been doing really good at keeping records, now it's time to use those records!