Lets Chat! Talk about your Farm!

luvmypets

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Hi everyone this is a thread where you can well... Share your experience at the farm, what your planning on doing next year, and your overall achievements so far! I thought this would be fun so come on a hop right in!

Oh and Pictures are encouraged!!!!

Ill start by saying we are really excited to announce that our ewe Mammy is due in (hopefully) about 6-8 weeks. We are thinking of buying a ram lamb to breed her daughter, because our only ram is her dad. You guys can tell me what ya think. I was hoping we can find a ram with like patches.

Moving on we are planning on making a sperate pen for our drakes. Our hens our overwhelmed by them so they stopped laying altogether. We just got an egg the other day so.

Anyhow I hope lots of this forum Join, I think it will be really fun!

-Luv
 

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Hi luvmypets! :) :frow
I'm working on building better pens/housing for my goats; I got most of the "pen's" up, now I need to finish the housing and the "momma"-side pen. The pens aren't huge, just for keeping them contained. So I need to find some of that electric mesh fencing to make movable pasture for them! :)
 

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I am THIS CLOSE [] to procuring my own 60 acres of land!!!!!! Just waiting to hear from the real estate about all the questions I had, and then hopefully they'll take a letter of guarantee of payment until I have the full deposit in 3 weeks :celebrate
 

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I am THIS CLOSE [] to procuring my own 60 acres of land!!!!!! Just waiting to hear from the real estate about all the questions I had, and then hopefully they'll take a letter of guarantee of payment until I have the full deposit in 3 weeks :celebrate
Congratulations @mikiz! That's great news! :weee
 

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Wooo thanks Blessed!! I'm so so so excited, this has been a dream since I was 13 and now it's finally (I'm only 24 it's not that long) happening!! I was almost certain I wouldn't ever get my farm but turns out I CAN do anything I put my mind to :D
 

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Wooo thanks Blessed!! I'm so so so excited, this has been a dream since I was 13 and now it's finally (I'm only 24 it's not that long) happening!! I was almost certain I wouldn't ever get my farm but turns out I CAN do anything I put my mind to :D
You're welcome! I'm glad you're going to be living your dream!! :) :hugs Do you plan on raising animals there? Just curious! :)
 

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Oh absolutely! I've got a word document with all the breeds (with photos) I want planned out, breeding plans, housing plans, how much space I'll need to store food, all of it! I won't be putting any animals on the land until I have my house built and the sheds etc, I live and work about 5 hours flight away from the property so I can pay it off and save more money to build and fence and all the rest. It's more of a future security so when I'm ready to move and have kids and stuff I'll have all my house and infrastructure set up perfectly.
I just have to come up with a name for my front gate once I secure the loan and then I'm ready to start REAL planning!! :woot
 

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We bought our place just over two years ago but only get there 4-5 days a month. Most of the time has been spend renovating the house but I usually spend a full day getting the pasture under control and making runs to the county dump. I still have a mountain of stone that will be used to fill in an attempt at digging a pond by the previous owners. We are on a 1300' limestone bluff that won't hold water. Even our well is a little over 1300'.

The 1st two pictures are taken pretty close to the same spot on the driveway. The undergrowth was so thick and tall enough to be over my head and thick enough you couldn't walk in it. The 1st time I put my little tractor cutting the brush, I had to go super slow and had the front end loader floating on the ground since I didn't know how the terrain was. !st time took me 18 hours to cut. After that I can do it in just over 7 hours.

I'm posting some before and after pictures of the outside and once we finish the house I'll post a thread to show what we did to it. If I didn't have the most capable and wonderful wife in the world I would have given up not long after we started due to all the initial set backs.
1 pasture briars (from south drive) r.jpg

1b Pasture from south drive Sep 2014 3rd cutting r.jpg
1c Pasture North 2014 (2) 2014 r.jpg
 

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That's AWESOME Mike!! Looking amazing after!
I can't wait to get started on mine
 

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