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Getting a dairy donkey to pull my wagon-home

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Hello :) my name is Aaron Fletcher and ive been raising dairy sheep and goats while worktrading on local small farms for the past 8+ years. A couple years ago i got a little wagon to live in and help haul the tools i need to be of more service to local farms and not need to get in their way using their kitchens or bathrooms because my wagon includes my own manually pressurized solar/fire heated shower, solar oven, evaporative cooler, a scythe and hay rake, a manual cream separator, .22 rifle for protecting their lifestock, etc.

My dairy rams have all loved to pull my wagon-home but only on relatively flat ground, so i’ve been looking into getting a larger animal to be able to pull it up hills.

and at first i thought a donkey would be best, then i thought maybe a small dairy cow would be a good fit but they require much more water  but for a number of reasons i think a small jersey dairy cow would fit my needs much better. I raised $1300 here on gofundme several months back but it hasnt been quite enough to get the cows ive tried to buy over craigslist because the few of them priced low enough for me to afford were bought up by other people before i could contact a friend and lineup a trailer ride and i didnt feel comfortable asking my friends for help transporting the cows that were further than an hour away drive. I only set this original gofundme goal at $1000 cause i figured i could save more money and find the animal i need with the money i have and because asking for any more money than that felt like people would think i was asking for too much and ive already tried to fund the creation of my survival credit card invention and to have it published and a first round printing done but my findraiser didnt make the $2000 goal so i dodnt receive any of the finding! I wanted the crowdfunding amount to be as reasonable as possible but i ended up not setting the goal realistically high enough to afford the amount for what i need! Bottom line is I could more realistically use $2300, $2000 to afford just about any of the cows that come up for sale and $300 to pay a local livestock hauler if its further away than an an hour drive which is likely. Also i would really like to get an A2A2 milk cow because the milk is much more easily digested for ease of my living off of it and drinking it daily, but an A2A2 cow would definitely cost at least $2000 so anything extra will ensure i can get exactly what i been looking for a medium to small sized jersey dairy cow with good leg confirmation and the lighter tan coloration for better heat management in the summer than the darker jerseys.

123homefree.com is my website and youtube.com/user/123homefree is my yt channel for references.

Thank you for your support in my eco activism-examples experiment!!
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