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Ada Combs plays Banjo and sings for the boys on her porch in 1959 Whitesburg, Kentucky, US.

I can assure you, as someone who used to own runners and silver appleyards, that ducks are by far the muckiest animals I have ever owned. You will not have a garden, you will have a quagmire- even if you only have a few.

Oh, and for all those people who think ducks are cute and well-behaved and sweet natured? Drakes are an absolute menace to society and you will constantly find yourself having to rescue hens from their clutches.

I get it. It's an aesthetic that you like and aspire to, but I wish people would stop sugarcoating it. Keeping a smallholding is hard labour.

Hell, keeping a garden is hard labour, nevermind a functional herb/ vegetable/ fruit garden or allotment.

You don't ever get to have lazy days with a smallholding- doing so puts the welfare of your livestock at risk. Seriously. Those animals that need milking must be milked at the same time every single day otherwise they will quickly develop mastitis.

And my mind boggles at those who think they can bring livestock inside their homes. These animals aren't like other domestic pets that can be housetrained. They poo constantly, and ducks are especially messy in this regard.

Goats can and will eat anything in their reach- and they can reach much farther, and far higher, than you realise. And they love parkour. If there's an obscure surface to climb or jump onto, they will.

As for micro pigs... I mean, of all of the typical smallholding creatures, the pigs are the easiest to train (probably easier than a dog, actually), but there is no such thing as a micro pig. And the thought of trying to breed this weird genetic anomaly for the sake of creating something cute is both daft and dangerous (see: brachy dogs like pugs). It's also an inevitable failure that may remain small for a couple of years before suddenly developing into a fully grown adult pig totally unsuitable for inhabiting a human living space.

This isn't so much a rant as an exasperated plea for respecting the reality of the true cottagecore dream. It's messy and dirty and utterly exhausting work, but that's all part of the charm.

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The urban dwellers have always been contented partaking of cheap food supplies while reserving their serious money for ostentatious activities like drinking alcohol while consuming imported supplies

For ages, the smallholder farmer has been regarded as a small earner. The urban dwellers have always been contented partaking of cheap food supplies while reserving their serious money for ostentatious activities like drinking alcohol, consuming imported supplies and gyrating in discotheques. Food was taken for granted and the plight of the peasant farmers was only given lip service. Many…

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