My farm life has little sentimental attachment to the animals since they can all be used for food. Big part of having them for me is the dual purposes they posess. 40+ Chickens for eggs and meat, sheep and alpacas/llamas for fiber and meat, and everything's poo for compost/fertilizer. The alpacas are primarily fiber but any llamas we find go in the freezer. Best meat we have had.
Really?! Never even thought llama as a meat animal! Learn something every day! Right on!
OMG!!! It is really the best meat I have ever had. It is a leaner meat, more towards deer, but it has zero gamey-ness. I liken it to buffalo but generally leaner. But the leanness does not hurt it when cooking. I am still able to get a tender, properly cooked piece of meat, that tastes amazing. If you look around you can often find them for really cheap.
Here there is a tax loophole that if you have over 5 acres I think, and have "animals" you get a tax credit. So a bunch of people move out of the city into the country onto a 10 acre lot, fence it, and put 1 llama on it, they get a tax credit. But those people are some that have given/sold cheap their llamas.
Well there's he farm tax deferral but don't know if a credit for my state/county.
People nowadays are such wieners they don't want to sell to people who might use animals for meat.
HAH! I have gotten goats before and begrudgingly signed a note saying I wouldn't kill them for meat. Well, one hung itself when out on a lead and I found it just dying so it ended up in freezer and the other was sold to someone who eventually butchered it. "I" didn't kill them... Silly people.
Honestly it's the silliest thing that they think they can expectthat when they sell.