We have cats and baby kittens and are looking at getting a dog. We had dreams of having an acreage with a few farm animals, but we just couldn't find one in our price range.

What animals do you have on your homestead? Do you plan on getting more?

We have 3 Australian Shepherds (dogs). We have no intention of getting more, but I have a feeling when we do someday get our dream homestead that dh and ds are going to gang up on me and insist that we get one more. Ds wants a horse so badly that he can't stand it - dh and I have talked about it and we're kind of straddling the fence.

4 dogs, 2 cats, 20 chickens, and 1 fish. That is all we can afford, LOL actually we should have stopped long before that.

2 cats, 2 dogs, and about 25 goats. Not to mention the wild animals that hang out here, deer, turkeys, foxes, squirrels and rabbits to name a few. Oh yeah and the fish and turtles in the lake.

Just chickens and a teacup poodle we own. But there are deer, turkeys and who knows what else. Someing in our stone garage BARKED at me, I haven't been back since. lol, am a big sisy.

We have four horses, 23 laying hens, 1 dog and two barn cats. Over the summer we had DS#2 4-H lamb.

I have 2 farm dogs, a house cat, 55 laying hens, 3 roosters, 6 pygmy goats.

We are talking about getting a milkcow and a beef cow in the near future. :)

CJ, how are the kittens doing? Did you find homes for them? Or maybe you can't part with them... ;)

We have 3 acres and have 16 sheep, 2 milking goats, 1 rooster and 7 chooks (chickens to you in the Nth. Hemisphere!), 1 cat and 1 dog. Soon we'll have baby chickens.
We'd love to have a cow or two, but our land is not suitable.
Our animals somehow seem to give life and soul to our land. Our neighbour has no animals and I always feel that his property is "dead".
At times our animals can be a tie and a hassle, but then when we sit on a balmy evening watching the lambs bounce & play... or the goats came & muzzle into the back of my neck....the rooster and the dog play their regular 'tag' game....the first chicks hatch...THEN we're reminded of why we have them and what they give to us. :) :)

It sounds wonderful, Maggie. We have two Airedale Terriers, one white cat, three laying hens and two about to start laying ( I Hope) and five fish. On the wild side we have countless cane toads (grrr), passing snakes and goannas, water dragons that come up from our creek and stand on the other side of the Airedale fence looking in, many local birds - parrots, honeyeaters, magpies, kookaburras and drongos + many migrating birds that rest on the small lake at the back of our property.

Oh yes, I forgot about the visiting "wild" ones! We have a constant battle with the possums eating our fruit.They're not protected here, Bethany.
We have lots of native birds...tuis, fantails, bellbirds, kingfishers etc. Also quail, pheasants, magpies and more.
Those cane toads are hideous! Thank goodness we don't have them, or snakes, in NZ!

What is a cane toad?
We have many wild animals here. The wildest bing the coyotes and the bob cats. I killed an opossum the other night because it was killing my "chooks." LOL I have never heard them called that, but I like it. The skunks and possums are in full mating swing right now. The possums are one of the nastiest animals I have ever seen, plus it takes about 3 shells to kill them off! lol

Maggie,
Sounds like heaven on earth to me.

Everyone's homes and animals sound wonderful.