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Anyone else here into farmlife? Born and raised in major city but after serving .mil for 6 years I’m on 8 acres in Indiana with my wife and kids. Loving it and have chickens and rabbits for eggs and meat, plus fur. I’ve also got four hogs at butcher weight so my family of four will be well supplied for another year or two. I’ll be getting sheep once I complete a rotational pasture fence and save enough for a llama, as I definitely need a guard animal and a donkey would just kill my children. I mean it probably wouldn’t but I’m still going with the llama. What are some challenges and projects you guys are working on? I’m building a new hutch for my rabbits with a grate floor and a funneled chute leading to a five gallon bucket, hopefully I’ll be able to take it when it’s full of rabbit turds and toss it in the garden but idk.

>> No.1659356

>>1659345
Get a big dog as defense as a puppy , look at rural living on jewtube for projects , sheep an a few cows can make off grid living easy .

>> No.1659357

Us coasters get to pay bare minimum 500k+ for a house on 1/10 acre with 8k a year property tax in melamine infused cancer boxes. Your chickens live a better life desu

>> No.1659367

>>1659357
post your an hero here m8

>> No.1659370

I want to get into it. Not larping I actually bought a quarter section and am just starting to put power and an RV on, and in the coming years will build a home. Split w my girl because she just doesn't want that life.

>> No.1659374

>>1659345
Go with goat instead of sheep, pretty much the same thing but goats generally offer better entertainment value and I would say better milk. Got to be ok with that goat smell though

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>> No.1659381

>>1659374
OP again. Started wanting goats but you NEED an electric fence because those fucks will batter any fence they can. My wife is a stay at home mom but she's useless in corralling them. Sheep that don't need annual shearing are what I've turned to because they also eat the pasture grass I have, goats go for more weedy stuff so I'm also paying more to feed a herd of those little guys but no disrespect to people who have them.

>> No.1659382

>>1659357
That's awful and one of the reasons I moved here man. OP btw. $400,000 VA Loan got me a 4,000 sq foot house with finished basement, 60x40 amish built barn that's 3 years old and 8 acres with 6 of it being pasture. Property tax for the homstead is a steady 1,800 a year and with the geothermal and fire wood stove i'm not spending much on utilities. Looking at photovoltaics to drop it down even more but I know almost nothing about that stuff right now.

>> No.1659384

>>1659380
You should see the outside pen lel

>> No.1659385

>>1659382
shit OP you got it made

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>>1659345
See: >>>/out/1569456

>> No.1659401

>>1659381
Goats do like to wander but once they know where home is they come back when it gets dark, the things they like to eat are among the easiest to grow. They are not as bad as people make them out to be.

>> No.1659538

>>1659345
>rabbits for eggs
Woah there Lenny, the Easter Bunny ain't real. Stick to the alfalfa.

>> No.1659598

If you are actually serious, you should consider a portable sawmill. Makes things so much easier in the long run.

>> No.1659630

>>1659345
i was raised on a farm anon, similar size sounding to yours, its a good way to raise kids man ur doin it right

>> No.1659635

Skip the llama, keep doing everything else.

total buttheads

>> No.1659656

>>1659382
So what exactly are you doing to bring in cash? Since you have lots of the basics paid for already, what is the average month’s income-expenses like when it comes to real currency?

>> No.1659683

>>1659345
i love when they moult, they were pretty spring birds once, now they are shabby dinosaurs again.

>> No.1659706

Guinea hens for an early warning system. They'll swarm people they don't know, as well as do a great job of keeping your garden bug free while not fucking up the vegetables you're growing in it. They're also great at keeping the place snake free. They love rattle snakes.

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>>1659345
My whole life I always wanted to be a farmer, to get out of the rat race of the city, to plant the little seeds in the fresh brown Earth pushing their way through the soil, and watch the stalks shooting up into the sky towards the sun and rain until they become corn, wheat and alfalfa.

>> No.1660366

So I have 4 cochin chickens. 3 of them are broody and not laying eggs and the other one think she's a rooster and is crowing every morning and develops male features

Any way to fix the brooding or do I just let it run its course?

>> No.1660378

>>1659381
Coming from someone who’s owned sheep for 40 plus years; Boer goats are far easier. We don’t NEED electric fences since we don’t have shit facilities, and if they feel like bolting when gates are opened the dogs are there to corral them back. Goats > sheep, also goats eating some of the weeds is nice for not letting th pasture get overran with weeds once it’s grazed down. You better have corn, hay/alfalfa mix, and straw for winter though.

>> No.1660431

>>1659345
>on 8 acres in Indiana
Welcome to the good life, anon. Keep quiet about it though, we're full.
>take it when it’s full of rabbit turds and toss it in the garden but idk.
Be aware of the various mineral levels before you just go dumping shit directly into your garden; you'll burn your plants if your nitrogen(?) gets too high. Do some research on it first, idk either but don't want your crops to burn up.
>>1659382
>photovoltaics
Other tech is better. You got flowing water on your land, anon? Look into microhydro. https://youtu.be/SRtwMvUETnw
>>1660366
Get a rooster, and get some egg-laying mash.

And, as others have said, goats>sheep and guineafowl>llama.

>> No.1660769

This seems like the life man I want to do this some day

>> No.1660783

Just bought a house on 5 acres(fucking expensive) in western Wa to start that rural life. Tucked way back in off the main road so it’s super fucking quiet. Going to start with the basics, garden and chickens.

>> No.1660827

>>1660366
they will be broody indefinitely because the eggs will never hatch.
put them all in a dog cage for a week with no nesting material and you'll be golden.

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>> No.1660926

>>1659345
Thank you b for your service.

>> No.1661069

>>1659345
Wife got some guinies.

Free meal is over snakes. Prepare to be fucked.

>> No.1661071

>>1659357
Lol, nobody cares. Mesothelioma hits late.

>> No.1661073

>>1659370
Bumber man. It can be a pain in the ass but nothings like the dailer adventure i have of putting my flex nuts rooster in his place every morning. The mutherfuckers getting balzy. He pecked at my boots twice today and hopped up on the coop eye level.

Will post mutilated rooster carcass and / my hospital bill when that little chucklefuck finally squares up

>> No.1661093

>>1659345
Wife and I are in the process of buying three acres in central Texas, all kinds of plabs. Chickens, goats, lots of raised bed gardening, etc. Really looking forward to it.
This city life apartment dwelling shit has officially lost its allure.

>> No.1661550

>>1661093
Wife worked at a hospital in the city, she was constantly getting sick form all the disease carrying city dwellers. She needed to get away from all that. She took a job at a veterinarian's office in the country, and that where we met. Sometimes I have to go into the city to get equipment, but she stays home with the kids. Says she'll never go back for any reason. I can't blame her, she's healthy and happy, and the cities are sicker and sicker.

>> No.1661632

>>1661073
Fkn do it nigger.

>> No.1661796

>>1661632
Oh i will. There's plenty more where that one came from. Little prick. He can be as agressive as he wants. I actually prefer it. But he gets to flog me precisely 1 time for as long as he is physically able to until i end his shit.

>> No.1661812

>>1659382
How much are you paying on that loan anon, I have 4 years left and am saving as much as I can so I can live the dream after college

>> No.1661830

got goats, ducks, chickens and bees... we have electric fence to protect our animals. I lost way too many chickens/ducks to the fox to let them free anymore.

in greater term i also want rabbits and pigs, but thats for later.

cultivating farm land and building a pond are currently my big struggles.

whats the rabbit breed you have, can you recommend it?

>> No.1661915

2 acres of permaculture in the south. I keep meat on the table hunting with my crossbow. Farming sucks, learn to use and eat what grows.

>> No.1662166

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYnt_CyjJU