Ways to make money with animals?

I love animals and farming. But I would like to make money by it. Do you have any tips o advice? What animals or plants should I use? And after I get them then what?



Find out what kind of market there is for show stock/breeding stock in your area. Talk to the local Extension Agent. The only people I know who make any real money from a smaller size operation get good breeding stock and raise quality animals to sell for show purposes or have spent decades building herds of quality animals which they sell to other producers as breediing stock.




first off, how much land do you have and how much money do you have to do that with? and how old are you?


the costs of starting up something like that will not be cheap-





a job that i think you'd be interested in would be a county extension agent- they (he/she) deals with all sorts of aspects with farming- livestock and crops, etc..





but if your in school (like high school) get involved with FFA, 4H does show livestock but the 4H isn't big into it as FFA is- FFA has more contacts with farmers and other people in the ag. industry, so i suggest showing a hog, cow (steer or heifer) ,sheep, lamb or goat


a friend of mine just made over $2,000 on her Simmental steer and another friend of mine made about the same on a hog of her's




Travelling petting zoo.





Providing fertile eggs to schools for a hatching program.





Raising rabbits and goats for meat.





Raising goats for milk and milk products.





btw - how much land do you have access to?




how 'bout sheep, for their wool and breeding profits


or a green house with flowering plants and then to an orchard with fruit, or you could grow legal herbs for medicinal properties




Try raising honey bee for their honey. Not only honey bees give you honey. They will help in pollination.




Read 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell. :)




join 4h and raise a cow and sell it at your local fair... you'll make about a 1000 bucks