{"id":3904,"date":"2016-11-10T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteaderdepot.com\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2016-11-10T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:28:14","slug":"indoor-pets-for-your-outdoor-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/11\/10\/indoor-pets-for-your-outdoor-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Pets for Your Outdoor Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, some people just can\u2019t see the benefit of backyard chickens, and they can\u2019t let others be.\u00a0 You may live in an area that doesn\u2019t allow for livestock such as chickens and have neighbors that have a lack of appreciation for self-reliance and fresh food.\u00a0 But does that mean that you have to buy manure?\u00a0 Or that you can\u2019t raise animals for meat?\u00a0 Not necessarily.\u00a0 You could raise animals indoors or in discreet cages, animals such as guinea pigs or rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are wanting meat, rabbits are the obvious choice because of their superior ability to reproduce with high rates of surviving offspring.<\/li>\n<li>Both guinea pigs and rabbits can have their diets largely supplemented with vegetable scraps from the kitchen and garden making them cheap to feed.<\/li>\n<li>Both animals produce manure that is great for your garden or compost pile, and that smells a lot better than chicken manure so your neighbors are less likely to notice or complain if they do.<\/li>\n<li>Both animals can be raised in relatively small pins without causing undo stress to the animals compared with chickens.<\/li>\n<li>Neither guinea pigs or rabbits are as social as chickens are and can be raised solitarily if given attention without the animals suffering.<\/li>\n<li>Both animals can deal with cold weather if they are kept in unheated rooms such as a garage or on a covered porch. But care should be taken to provide them with relief from the heat.<\/li>\n<li>Neither animal makes much noise that could be heard by neighbors.<\/li>\n<li>Both guinea pigs and rabbits are cute animals that are fun for kids to have as indoor pets that can be allowed out of the cage and safely handled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just because you live in an area that restricts your ability to raise livestock doesn\u2019t mean that you can\u2019t find a way around it that could provide you with manure and even meat.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/8ef9flvm5e266ovn2ep3m6oq5q.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural Healing Techniques Doctors Don\u2019t Want You to Know\u2026<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/e8b96k8k-h4z5h3w15ex3osldj.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Weight-Reducing Magic of Yoga\u2026<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/ada15qviw9433p1qt9umz2sf8f.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ultimate Woodworking Course..<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Unfortunately, some people just can\u2019t see the benefit of backyard chickens, and they can\u2019t let others be.\u00a0 You may live in an area that doesn\u2019t allow for livestock such as chickens and have neighbors that have a lack of appreciation for self-reliance and fresh food.\u00a0 But does that mean that you have to<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-grid-button\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/11\/10\/indoor-pets-for-your-outdoor-garden\/\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,249,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}