Could you get breeds that are Winter hardy?
Several sheep and a couple of bovine breeds are more or less winter hardy. Just need wind shelter and running water.
Lovely house and family!
Edit: They cultivate the European Moose/Elk like cows in Russia. Fully winter hardy. And very, very tasty meat!
I'm very fortunate to have lots of different "farm foods" all around me.
It's usually a little more expensive that the local grocery store but I'm supporting friends and neighbors.
They don't have the economy of scale to dope up 2,000 egg-laying chickens.
milius2: I know enough now that if were weren't so far apart, I'd hope to buy chickens from you , all year long.
The demand here is intense. I know one grower able to raise 300 at a time. Out of the last flock, he said that he kept 2 or them.
Then, there's a local business and they do not raise a single chicken. They are a mobile chicken slaughter business.
I've bought birds that they processed = very clean and neat and tidy.
Parents used to buy chicken from a local guy when I was a kid. 'Cash in hand' system.
It was fun to chase them once my dad took their heads off with a hatchet.
Wonder if it could have been a Hultafors?
Milius! That bench is beautiful.
Your place is looking really good .
Hope that front door is hung the right way around now...
Milius, what is your connection to Norway?
Such a shame the majority of the pictures no longer work. Sounds like a brilliant project. Very much close to my heart.