ColtWalker1847
kiwifarms.net
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- Dec 20, 2017
And those dairy operations rely heavily on bringing in feed. The product there is worth taking on the extra expense. This alpaca wool dealie ain't it.Yep, the phrase "Back 40" exists for a reason, they don't even have that in the front, and the front is all they have.
You need at least 80 or 90 acres to run a dairy farm around here, and that's in an area that isn't desert by default. And those are just the small ones.
What they need for that amount of grazing livestock in the climate they are in is in the thousands of acres. A huge summer grazing area. A big divided BLM lease or something. Then some bottomland down by a river or some water source where it is warmer in winter and they can pump and irrigate the shitload of hay they need to cut, bale, and store for when they bring them down from the prairie for winter.
This dry and cold 36 acres on the slopes of some minor range in the high desert could maybe take care of a pony or two. If you did it right.
Words cannot express what an overgrazed clusterfuck this is. The Alpacawitz monikers are correct. Don't get attached to the animals because they are all dead as troon dicks.