Orange County NC Website
g <br />Other Animal Agriculture <br />Beef Cattle Farms <br />There aze approximately 200 beef cattle farms in Orange County. This has been fairly steady <br />for the past ten years. All of the beef farms in this county aze pasture grazing operations, <br />although some farms have cattle confined far short periods of time in small paddocks for <br />such things as winter feeding or artificial breeding. There are no large scale cattle finishing <br />feedlots in the county. <br />Horses <br />Horse numbers are slowly increasing in the county. Approximately 65~ farms and homesteads <br />have horses. Most horse farms have some amount of pasture for their horses, although there <br />are a few stables that have a fairly concentrated number of horses on small acreages of land. <br />Miscellaneous <br />It is estimated that approximately 200 farms have small numbers of sheep, goats, llamas, <br />home poultry flocks and assorted other animals. <br />