Vets can give you valuable information such as which pig dealers raise the healthiest pigs as well as those with poor sanitation practices on their pig farms. They can also tell you which dealers have pigs that are suffering from health problems. Tour the Pig Farm Check the facilities if they are adequately equipped for taking care of pigs. But if your goal is to earn consistent income out of breeding horses, then you may be better off considering other options. That does not mean, though, that you can never earn profit at all when you raise horses. If your passion really lies in breeding horses for profit, then you can look for the more profitable breeds such as Friesians, Fell Ponies, Gypsy Cobs, and Vanners. In addition, sheep are also raised for fleece. Goat The domestic goat is closely related to sheep. It also belongs to the oldest domesticated animals. They are raised for meat, milk, skins and hair. Younger goat s meat is called kid or cabrito and older one s meat is chevon, or mutton . Cattle Cattle has been domesticated since the early Neolithic age. Composting is the most common way of disposing dead livestock maybe because of its long proven viability. However, this method is not recommended for other herd or flock disposal cases. As mentioned above, laws and ordinances have been created to guide people on the best management practices in disposing dead livestock. This is just one of the many issues raised by activists. In the same year, Cypress Foods started feeling the crunch of the economy. The result: it decided not to feed more than a million of its farm chickens in Georgia and Florida for up to two weeks. In that action, more than 20,000 of those birds perished and about 180,000 were euthanized. Air hissing is particularly more stressful to livestock. Thus, air-operated tools must be equipped with special mufflers to minimize unlikely noise when handling and moving livestock animals. Calm pigs and cattle are noticeably much easier to move and handle than excited animals. Excited and agitated animals are harder to sort and separate.