Hello Friends.
It feels wonderful to finally come around the community to make my first post and guess how excited I am about the topic of this weeks contest, talking about a preference between crop or livestock farming.
With my experience over the years combining the two I will like to shed some more light about which will be better and although this is my opinion its to stick with what works for you base locations, conditions and criteria of work.
The ultimate goal of a farmer is not just to provide food on the table but to make profits and some financial gains, all these is put into consideration before choosing the path that best fits one.
These are my beans harvest from last year.
The pods are kept for feeding our goats and since we have been occupied the beans have been stored in sacked unmilled from the pods
To man an intimate gain, we maximize resources and waste products from plants becomes useful materials for feeding the animals.
These circle goes same for our chickens and hens, the poultry droppings and animal dungs are transferred into our rice farm as manures.
Rearing animals isn't as hard as @vickoly things and I don't see us devoting much time to the animals as such.
Birds require much attention in the first few weeks after hatching, the feeding and vaccination, but after those 3-4 weeks they are independent and the only routine is changing their food and water, which can be done twice daily (morning and night).
This is not an argument or a debate.
Just stating how easy it can be to combine the two.
We no longer buy much artificial fertilizer because of these manures.
I plant rice, beans, yams, cassava groundnuts , guinea corn, bambara nuts and pepper😂😂😂
With hope that I can add some cash crop like cashew and palm fruits in the future.
We have enough guinea corn and maize to feed the goats, while other times we mix soya beans and other ingredient from our farm for the chickens food.
Recycling resources like this makes no room for water and maximum output. Although its sometimes a lot of work to handle.
At the end of planting season we have enough plant fodder from rice and other crop to feed the animals with.
In essence we neither purchase animal feeds or buy fertilizers, all there is to do is clean the animals house or clear the plants of weeds and we have good harvest from both ends.
There might be one or two challenges involved at some points though but with time I will bring more information to the house on how to farm and make good ends meet successfully.
Thanks for stopping by to read this lengthy post.
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Quite enlightening, i like the fact that you utilise every damn thing from the plant remains and all..Nice having you around, would love seeing more of your posts here subsequently. Do appreciate your contributions! Cheers