For traditional homesteaders, acquiring livestock is usually a matter of what kind and how many.  Living in a suburban/urban environment limits those possibilities even further.  Of course large animals and those usually considered "farm livestock"  are pretty much restricted to agricultural zones.  The one exception that is quickly becoming popular in the backyard homestead are chickens.  

 

 These lovely ladies have been added to our homestead.  I have found them very entertaining to say the least. The red one is Lucy, the trouble maker.  The large white'sh one is Peggy and most dominate of the group.  LC , short for lemoncello, is the yellow/golden one.  She is at the bottom of the pecking order due to her size and a gimpy leg.  She's also the friendliest  of them, allowing me to pet her and pick her up.  And every hen flock needs a Henrietta in the group.  I think she is the prettiest of the group. A black and white Silver Wyandotte.  

   Three of these gals give fine light brown eggs and miss Peggy produces blue colored eggs.  We get 4 eggs every day which really stack up.  We are not big egg eaters. I do use them in cooking or hard boil them for a snack.  The extras we give to neighbors or freeze dry for storage.  

    During the summer when the plants are growing we keep them in a run. After harvest we let out to scratch and dig in the garden beds.  They turn the soil and fertilize it at the same time while looking for those juicy worms. Sometimes it looks like they are digging to very center of the earth.

   So if you want a good source of protein  and comic relief , get yourself a flock of chickens.