UDFLandBeforeSelling

UtopianDreamFarm land before anything was sold to pay bills.

During this time the Darwin family had Angus meat cattle, Brahman for their pelts and meet, and Belted Dutch for their milk (mostly just for the farm). Normally there were about 15 Angus at any given time (with one bull though the calves were sold often), 6 Brahman (which includes no bulls as we like to import new genes into our herds), and about 3 of the Belted Dutch that stayed closest to the house. Every couple of years they were bred and we would pick between the calves or the cows that we've had.
The Hampshire Pigs (and here recently with Farmer Darwin Duroc/Hampshire crosses) are meat breeds that are great at converting feed to meat. They were originally gotten to help keep down on food waste (pigs can and will eat just about anything you throw into them) but the family had grown to love the pig that matched their family cows. Again they rarely kept males with them but would find board to breed into their stock.
The Shropshire (Sheep), La Mancha (Goat), and Alpine (Goat) were bought and bred for the wool, milk and meat. Again Goats could eat just about everything so when the cows were done eating what they could out of one pasture, the goats would come in behind them to eat up the hardy plants the cows could not. Normally there was one male for each breed but these guys were kept separate until needed to reduce the amount of mixed breed offspring. Once a year they are put together in smaller pastures to breed and then all set out again.
The rabbits were always for the kids, well mostly. This taught them the importance of keeping track of your livestock, breeding and how that works, nutrition, etc. Rex and Newzeland were bred to breed together. the kits from these crosses normally were very colorful thanks to the Rex genes and still decent meat producers due to the New Zeland White genes. This made for the perfect rabbit as you could get good meat, but at the same time the pelts were large and colorful so they could be sold. The Dutch was just to continue on with the belted animals of the farm as the kids wanted to be just like the adults. These were bred for fun and were never crossbred.
The Runner (Duck), African (Geese), and Welsummer (Chicken) are all free range that were able to keep bugs down and keep the fields that the cows went in cleaned up (they would scratch and spread manure) which helped the fields grow and cut down on bug that were destructive to the grasses and crops. These we let breed at will as Duck, Geese, and Chicken couldn't cross bred. There were a few of each that stuck by the main housing and barns but there were other flocks as well that roamed all 220 acres.
They always had come form of canine and horse at the farm to help with the jobs that needed to be done. Whether it was protection, surveying the land, finding lost animals, etc.