livestock

Hi - the long thread drift (which I am fine with) on keeping rabbits under the Fodder crises/Maunder Minimum thread on the Main Page got me looking and I didn't see a recent thread on small livestock and farm animals (including barn cats, sheepdogs, and other not food critters) so I thought I'd...

In my area the price of hay has sky rocketed and is still going up. It is almost double what it was this time last year. My hay seller confirmed more and more famers are putting former meadow, pasture land and fields of fodder into corn this year. Farmers are growing not much more than what they...