My goal is not to make a ton of money, but to have my homestead pay for it's self. My goal is to not have expenses of feed for animals, money for seeds and compost and to make enough that there are no money out for upkeep. I'm 69 and retired and looking at homesteading from a totally different angle. You are correct, I don't have all of the skills I need, but so far I garden, can and my next step is livestock. My next step is being able to raise my own food without of feed cost being more than I would be paying out for food from a grocery store. I'm very glad you have this information out. I'm sure this will help on my next step.
I live in Australia and I move to the country just under 20 years ago I decided that I will get a couple of cows for the freezer unfortunately they turned into pets but in saying that I also decided that I would breed with them and I got a bull although I don't make a lot of money from selling them I do keep one or two for the freezer which also helps out myself and a friend of mine but the way I look at it the cost of buying that meat is a hell of a lot more I do exactly the same thing with pigs I will keep so many pigs for food I will sell the rest which that pays for the animals feed I recently started breeding meat chickens I have about 9 different breeds I slaughtered some a few months ago and I loved it the meat was absolutely beautiful in time I will sell some fertilised eggs and maybe some chicks but raising animals is a slow process but something I enjoy and I'm glad I did it it's a very rewarding process I love the fact through my hard work I have now secured my food and I know what their fed and it pays off when it comes to the quality
😂😆 my grandpa taught me at a young age!!! Not to play with my supper!( Become friends with the livestock!!) . The reason why your chickens and produce tasted so good!! Because you raised it!!! Don't know about Aussieland? But most of store bought fruits & veggies, pretty much taste the same or have no taste/ flavor!!
This is such a great conversation. You guys have earned all the bounty of your lives through hard work and determination. It’s inspiring. Thank you so much.
Thanks Aust, great info🙌. I went to the Elders in the Mountains to ask how they made it. A lot of work goes into it. But if you listen and learn you can make it. This man owned the whole Mountain when He was finished. He primarily made His money selling Heating Wood. Logging of His property and processing it. Hi Wife ran the Homestead. It was a way of Life that they loved🐦. JO JO IN VT 😆💕
We also moved to our homestead in 2014. I continued to work for the first two years and made our house livable. My wife still works and I have been building our homestead. We started with chickens and then moved on to dairy goats. Last year I finished a heifer off and put her in the freezer, I now have two cows in the pasture and I'm raising two pigs. I'm at the point where I'm expanding our garden, it's been small. I hope to grow enough to can to sustain us through most of the year.
I can't speak for others, but in my IT career, making money was easy, and fun! There were bad days, bad projects, even bad employers/clients, but those were the exceptions. Overall, I got to sit in a comfortable place, with cool equipment, and solve interesting puzzles. And for that, I was paid lots of lovely money. Now, in retirement, I'm looking at a lot of the "homestead" type skills not for actual homesteading, but more as a way to be less dependent, make our wealth last longer. When you talk about surplus produced by your efforts, my first thought is *preservation* , not sales. We're very hesitant about raising animals (from experience), but taking the chicken example, I could see having a huge surplus of eggs, and freeze drying them. Or having a huge surplus of chickens for slaughter, and taking the meat from them and freeze drying, or salting, for future need. So one year you concentrate on chickens and produce enough chicken-based food for the next several years, and then for a while you back off, only keep a few chickens. Or one year you produce a vast amount of tomatoes, and can enough for years. Government *has* made sales of such products too cumbersome, though maybe that would be OK in a small community, with bartering or other less formal processes. "A face for podcast"...LOL. I like to say I have a face for radio, but a voice for print. The bit about finding a niche reminds me of a book we read years ago, by a farmer (MS?) who advised small farmers on how to be profitable. One of the keys he pushed was growing things that weren't very common, but were in high demand. Instead of growing wheat, grow asparagus, that sort of thing. We did, one year, grow winter wheat, and that was enough to tell us there was no point. It's just too much work for too little product, when the market provides it at low cost. OTOH, fresh tomatoes...we grew them every year we could, basically. Anyway, thanks for another great video, and an interesting interview.
Nurse jersey cows is what I have been doing. I get hoilstien Angus crosses for 125 at a month old. Then I Nurse them for 4 months on my nurse cow 3 at a time I did 9 calfs this year then I raise till 650 to 700 pound seems to bring the best money I got 1.55 a pound. I have made 12000 this year off one cow I sold some of the steers I raised the year before. Also I have 3 freezers full of beef. So it's still selling. Not bad off one jersey nurse cow for a year and a half. Also I have a jersey heifer. So next year I'm going to double my out put. I was Making a killing on hatching and selling month old chick's for 15 bucks. But covid shut down the chicken swaps . I'm going to start hatching again. Some weeks I would make 1500 bucks selling chick's.
Chicken breeding is my hope, too. I have my first flock of Brahmas and another of Orpingtons. I hope to hatch pure heritage breeds so I can charge a little more than for mixes (but as they all run together for most of the year I'll also be selling an early hatch or two of mixes every year.)
I heard him say, “it’s best to get something you can grow into”. Does that mean, if you want to be a cattle farmer, buy more land to start with so you can grow into it?
We don't use organic feed, at least not currently, and we get it for a good price from our LFS, and our costs are about $18 per bird at butcher day. We raised 115 last time. This time we are doing 75 and will be hard pressed to sell them. (They are primarily for us, but would like to sell them.
meat chickens really go for $30-40/bird ? maybe i dont understand what they are, but this seems insane as compared to the grocery store price. am I comparing apples to oranges? thanks for an informative video.
@@mariadracona what's the going price in the grocery store? do you find alot of people willing to pay $25/bird? that seems like a very very high price to me.
A free range organically raised ethically costs ALOT more to raised than factory farmed antibiotic infused chicken found in supermarkets. My poultry are free ranged organically fed spoiled rotten have 100 acres to roam... which chicken do you think has a better life,or tastes better on your tastebuds? You get what you pay for ,and although I don't make a profit I know that my poultry have the best life possible & my customers have the best quality food possible, ethically.
@@michelevaniderstine902 thanks for the feedback. i'm going to see if i can find some locally and try it out. i hope to get out of engineering and get into something like this in a few years.
Great video. Not gonna lie tho, between the cap, the red shirt, and the mustouche, I was thinking about the live action super mario series from the 90s 😂
@@Homesteadyshow lol you look cooler than the guy who played mario on there 😂 ..yeah, I used to watch it on vhs as a kid. It just popped into my mind lol they did funny dances... You're super!
How to become a milliinaire with a small farm. Step 1: start out with 2 million. Step 2: have another income source that has nothing to do with farming. (Rentals, spouse who works in town, high paying tech/engineering/ medical career)
Your land is a fifth generation homestead. Do you have any advice for a family that is large/grown, but does not appreciate these skills when it comes to survival and self sustainability. I garden and preserve my produce. At 64 yrs I'm doing more now that ever before on a small city lot. I'd love to find some acreage but don't have the cash to purchase as the prices have skyrocketed...and have a husband too sick and tired to do this kind of work, but he does love fishing. I'm trying to convince him a pond is a dream he could have. I don't want to give up on my dreams. Again any advice?
Mary, I think you have the right idea, don’t try too hard to change your families mind, instead speak to what they already like. Having a pond is awesome for a homestead, and fish are an awesome source of backyard protein! Focus on the benefits others will like and don’t give up! There are diamonds in the rough too if your willing to take the extra step and go off grid, those properties can be much cheaper
What these you tube homesteaders wont tell you is it is something for healthy strong 30 year olds not worn out 60 year olds, and no, you will never make a living from a "homestead". They also fail to tell you they either inherited the land or started 😊out very wealthy.
That don’t seem right can’t be sustained put in your mind stock market crash but fuel feed fertilizer all sky rocket and gov takes steps to prolong the hard ships
I feed organic feed,which is $50/bag;I have to fill 8 feeders and one bag fills one regular sized chicken feeder.They need filling twice a day.Their straw and hay is organic & twice the price of non-organic.It's $6/chicken to have a federally inspected butcher process each chicken.This doesn't even count my time & labour or the wear & tear on my vehicle or the gas involved to get feed,straw,hay,or taking them to the vet or processor.I charge $6.95/pound/bird processed and & freezer-ready. I am NOT making a profit,but I am providing healthy food for others. I don't even break even.
Got to get it where it’s at can’t tax lazy people who don’t produce it’s like you have to charge your friend because your haters won’t home around to buy things from you
Those pigs are wasting so much food - when they lift their heads up to look around while they chew I can see the feed falling out of their mouths onto the dirt. And then they tip the trough up as well! Have you considered better feeding infrastructure so the troughs don't tip over and whatever they drop falls back in the trough instead of going to waste?
My goal is not to make a ton of money, but to have my homestead pay for it's self. My goal is to not have expenses of feed for animals, money for seeds and compost and to make enough that there are no money out for upkeep. I'm 69 and retired and looking at homesteading from a totally different angle. You are correct, I don't have all of the skills I need, but so far I garden, can and my next step is livestock. My next step is being able to raise my own food without of feed cost being more than I would be paying out for food from a grocery store. I'm very glad you have this information out. I'm sure this will help on my next step.
Lofty goal, but unless you are already a milliinaire, you started 30 years too late.
I live in Australia and I move to the country just under 20 years ago I decided that I will get a couple of cows for the freezer unfortunately they turned into pets but in saying that I also decided that I would breed with them and I got a bull although I don't make a lot of money from selling them I do keep one or two for the freezer which also helps out myself and a friend of mine but the way I look at it the cost of buying that meat is a hell of a lot more I do exactly the same thing with pigs I will keep so many pigs for food I will sell the rest which that pays for the animals feed I recently started breeding meat chickens I have about 9 different breeds I slaughtered some a few months ago and I loved it the meat was absolutely beautiful in time I will sell some fertilised eggs and maybe some chicks but raising animals is a slow process but something I enjoy and I'm glad I did it it's a very rewarding process I love the fact through my hard work I have now secured my food and I know what their fed and it pays off when it comes to the quality
That’s awesome Noel! You are producing soo much from your homestead
@@Homesteadyshow and the food is so much better than the store
😂😆 my grandpa taught me at a young age!!! Not to play with my supper!( Become friends with the livestock!!) . The reason why your chickens and produce tasted so good!! Because you raised it!!! Don't know about Aussieland? But most of store bought fruits & veggies, pretty much taste the same or have no taste/ flavor!!
This is such a great conversation. You guys have earned all the bounty of your lives through hard work and determination. It’s inspiring. Thank you so much.
Thanks Aust, great info🙌.
I went to the Elders in the Mountains to ask how they made it.
A lot of work goes into it.
But if you listen and learn you can make it. This man owned the whole Mountain when He was finished.
He primarily made His money selling Heating Wood. Logging of His property and processing it.
Hi Wife ran the Homestead. It was a way of Life that they loved🐦.
JO JO IN VT 😆💕
We also moved to our homestead in 2014. I continued to work for the first two years and made our house livable. My wife still works and I have been building our homestead. We started with chickens and then moved on to dairy goats. Last year I finished a heifer off and put her in the freezer, I now have two cows in the pasture and I'm raising two pigs. I'm at the point where I'm expanding our garden, it's been small. I hope to grow enough to can to sustain us through most of the year.
Really great point regarding considering money you save in producing your own food being tax free income.
Thanks for all the info it's very helpful, I'll be starting soon in NC.
Awesome information Aust. This channel is such a plethora of knowledge.
Thanks Cyndi ☺️
I can't speak for others, but in my IT career, making money was easy, and fun! There were bad days, bad projects, even bad employers/clients, but those were the exceptions. Overall, I got to sit in a comfortable place, with cool equipment, and solve interesting puzzles. And for that, I was paid lots of lovely money. Now, in retirement, I'm looking at a lot of the "homestead" type skills not for actual homesteading, but more as a way to be less dependent, make our wealth last longer. When you talk about surplus produced by your efforts, my first thought is *preservation* , not sales. We're very hesitant about raising animals (from experience), but taking the chicken example, I could see having a huge surplus of eggs, and freeze drying them. Or having a huge surplus of chickens for slaughter, and taking the meat from them and freeze drying, or salting, for future need. So one year you concentrate on chickens and produce enough chicken-based food for the next several years, and then for a while you back off, only keep a few chickens. Or one year you produce a vast amount of tomatoes, and can enough for years. Government *has* made sales of such products too cumbersome, though maybe that would be OK in a small community, with bartering or other less formal processes.
"A face for podcast"...LOL. I like to say I have a face for radio, but a voice for print.
The bit about finding a niche reminds me of a book we read years ago, by a farmer (MS?) who advised small farmers on how to be profitable. One of the keys he pushed was growing things that weren't very common, but were in high demand. Instead of growing wheat, grow asparagus, that sort of thing. We did, one year, grow winter wheat, and that was enough to tell us there was no point. It's just too much work for too little product, when the market provides it at low cost. OTOH, fresh tomatoes...we grew them every year we could, basically.
Anyway, thanks for another great video, and an interesting interview.
This is great right where I am by now.
Great info! Invest in yourself has really been the biggest tactic that has helped to propel our homestead.
Lol! I love the goats mahing in the background!
"The richest man in Babylon" is a great book about building wealth. Even kids can follow it.
Great info!!!
Great information thanks
I like that, money that you didn't pay taxes. Terrific!
Nurse jersey cows is what I have been doing. I get hoilstien Angus crosses for 125 at a month old. Then I Nurse them for 4 months on my nurse cow 3 at a time I did 9 calfs this year then I raise till 650 to 700 pound seems to bring the best money I got 1.55 a pound. I have made 12000 this year off one cow I sold some of the steers I raised the year before. Also I have 3 freezers full of beef. So it's still selling. Not bad off one jersey nurse cow for a year and a half. Also I have a jersey heifer. So next year I'm going to double my out put. I was Making a killing on hatching and selling month old chick's for 15 bucks. But covid shut down the chicken swaps . I'm going to start hatching again. Some weeks I would make 1500 bucks selling chick's.
DANG NOAH. This is what John is talking about! Get creative. No milk farmer ever made 12,000 of one cow in milk one year! YES!
Chicken breeding is my hope, too. I have my first flock of Brahmas and another of Orpingtons. I hope to hatch pure heritage breeds so I can charge a little more than for mixes (but as they all run together for most of the year I'll also be selling an early hatch or two of mixes every year.)
Great video have watched it Luke 3 times now lol
Hello can you make a full video about cow milking by machine please
Very cool to see these concepts applied across so many fields... pun intended 😂
i am growing, i am producing, i need a market. how to market in a saturated market, where to go? currently what i produce is going into my freezer
I heard him say, “it’s best to get something you can grow into”.
Does that mean, if you want to be a cattle farmer, buy more land to start with so you can grow into it?
Wow. $30 to $40a bird. That's amazing. I can't go over $15 or they will never sale.
Oh man! How much do they cost you to raise? I easily have 20$ in cost in a bird at butcher day
Must be using organic feed.
We don't use organic feed, at least not currently, and we get it for a good price from our LFS, and our costs are about $18 per bird at butcher day.
We raised 115 last time.
This time we are doing 75 and will be hard pressed to sell them. (They are primarily for us, but would like to sell them.
I'm just wondering, is that the difference between while bird vs pieced out?
@@lusheracres5477 likely so.
meat chickens really go for $30-40/bird ? maybe i dont understand what they are, but this seems insane as compared to the grocery store price. am I comparing apples to oranges?
thanks for an informative video.
We sell our meat chickens for 25 each in South FL.
@@mariadracona what's the going price in the grocery store? do you find alot of people willing to pay $25/bird? that seems like a very very high price to me.
A free range organically raised ethically costs ALOT more to raised than factory farmed antibiotic infused chicken found in supermarkets.
My poultry are free ranged organically fed spoiled rotten have 100 acres to roam... which chicken do you think has a better life,or tastes better on your tastebuds?
You get what you pay for ,and although I don't make a profit I know that my poultry have the best life possible & my customers have the best quality food possible, ethically.
@@michelevaniderstine902 thanks for the feedback. i'm going to see if i can find some locally and try it out. i hope to get out of engineering and get into something like this in a few years.
pastured organic chicken can be expensive. grocery store birds are factory farmed in massive sheds with 10s of thousands of birds
And I love that shirt 🐮
Great video. Not gonna lie tho, between the cap, the red shirt, and the mustouche, I was thinking about the live action super mario series from the 90s 😂
Oh no… I love a great Mario comparison… but the live action series from the 90’s 😳
@@Homesteadyshow lol you look cooler than the guy who played mario on there 😂 ..yeah, I used to watch it on vhs as a kid. It just popped into my mind lol they did funny dances... You're super!
How to become a milliinaire with a small farm. Step 1: start out with 2 million. Step 2: have another income source that has nothing to do with farming. (Rentals, spouse who works in town, high paying tech/engineering/ medical career)
Your land is a fifth generation homestead. Do you have any advice for a family that is large/grown, but does not appreciate these skills when it comes to survival and self sustainability. I garden and preserve my produce. At 64 yrs I'm doing more now that ever before on a small city lot. I'd love to find some acreage but don't have the cash to purchase as the prices have skyrocketed...and have a husband too sick and tired to do this kind of work, but he does love fishing. I'm trying to convince him a pond is a dream he could have. I don't want to give up on my dreams. Again any advice?
Mary, I think you have the right idea, don’t try too hard to change your families mind, instead speak to what they already like. Having a pond is awesome for a homestead, and fish are an awesome source of backyard protein! Focus on the benefits others will like and don’t give up! There are diamonds in the rough too if your willing to take the extra step and go off grid, those properties can be much cheaper
What these you tube homesteaders wont tell you is it is something for healthy strong 30 year olds not worn out 60 year olds, and no, you will never make a living from a "homestead". They also fail to tell you they either inherited the land or started 😊out very wealthy.
Money in your freezer that hasn't been taxed. Geez thanks, now there's gonna be a new tax.
"$30 to $40 per chicken" what?????
It's inflation. A year ago it would've been maybe 15-20/hen depending on the area and the supplier.
That don’t seem right can’t be sustained put in your mind stock market crash but fuel feed fertilizer all sky rocket and gov takes steps to prolong the hard ships
People in my area will pay that for a free-range, organically raised bird, for sure.
I feed organic feed,which is $50/bag;I have to fill 8 feeders and one bag fills one regular sized chicken feeder.They need filling twice a day.Their straw and hay is organic & twice the price of non-organic.It's $6/chicken to have a federally inspected butcher process each chicken.This doesn't even count my time & labour or the wear & tear on my vehicle or the gas involved to get feed,straw,hay,or taking them to the vet or processor.I charge $6.95/pound/bird processed and & freezer-ready. I am NOT making a profit,but I am providing healthy food for others. I don't even break even.
That’s the break ebmven price
Mustache is on point
Homesteading is not selling “online classes”. That’s working from home or being a RUclipsr.
If the IRS listened to this video we know who to blame when they impose a tax on non earned income saved.
WV has what is called an “inventory “ tax. They count each chicken, cow, goat....I hate politicians.
Got to get it where it’s at can’t tax lazy people who don’t produce it’s like you have to charge your friend because your haters won’t home around to buy things from you
And to think our founding fathers revolted over a 3% tax...
Those pigs are wasting so much food - when they lift their heads up to look around while they chew I can see the feed falling out of their mouths onto the dirt. And then they tip the trough up as well! Have you considered better feeding infrastructure so the troughs don't tip over and whatever they drop falls back in the trough instead of going to waste?
Bill Gates wants to know if he is "at" making a couple of billion out of buying up land and selling crickets?
Shh, about the taxes.
Kinda hard to listen with those goats hollering........
You're telling me...
Move away from the stupid lambs baaing
bs get to the point
Step one should be : get first few millions elsewhere
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