Well I am a farmer so yes I am pretty familiar with livestock. Currently I do not have any but my nephew has cattle on my pastures right now. I have had livestock my entire life and when my kids were growing up we had nearly every species in the freezer. That is except horse and some fowl. We had cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, rabbits, chickens, turkeys ducks, pigeons, guinea. Of course wild game was also in the freezer. I was planning on get a load of dairy calves in this past spring but it never worked out .
When Chipper posted the pic of deer I thought his comments were about deer not groundhogs. I have no issue shooting groundhogs out of season. Yes with have a season here. Our DNR officers would look the other way even if you shot one out of season as they are a problem. The biggest wildlife species problem here is and will remain to be coyotes. They are out of control and completely un-checked. The DNR knows it and has known it. They allow hunting 365 days a year and now even allow night hunting. The only exception I know of is that for many years it was closed for the 7 days of shotgun deer season. That was done to prevent folks from carrying rifles during deer season under the premise of "coyote" hunting. The problem was it prevented deer hunters from dispatching coyotes with a slug while legally deer hunting. The DNR realized that law needed to change so now it is legal to kill coyotes in deer season with a shotgun or muzzle loader. I will take whatever means needed to dispatch a coyote. We have no fox left because the coyotes will find the dens and eat the young. You eat a few litters of young and then there are no adults. They killed my dog, They killed our guinea hens. They have eliminated rabbits. They are the scrounge of the wildlife world here.
Funny story on the oddest way we every killed one. My brother and I were leaving around 5AM to go check our trapline. We were driving an old 1965 Chevelle. As we were heading down our gravel road we spotted a coyote standing along the edge. Of course it was still dark and the dumb poop got confused. Instead of running to the saftey of the ditch the dipstick ran right down the edge of the road. Well my brother floored it and the stupid animal make it grave right there trying to outrun a chevelle. We tossed it in the trunk and went on to check traps. When we got back home our father was leaving for work. We told him what happened. He asked if we shot it. Heck no ole Chevy steel took care of it. He looked at us shook his head and said..."boys be careful opening that trunk, you probably just stunned it." well we popped the trunk and it was dead.
If Im going to be working in miserable conditions felling timber in Kodiak's rainy and windy coastal environment. Im going to do my best to be as comfortable as possible in the process bud!
When did you buy your first house?
Good on ya! A man with a plan! Wish I were that smart. 
Where did you see them for that price?!?! I cringed when a payed I think over 200.00 direct From Filson! 
but your Chevelle story reminds me of a joke!
