Dying to start my hobby farm!! What is some good beginner advice?

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Do it while you're young!
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Eggsoteric said:
Do it while you're young!
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See what I mean? If I were younger, I might have remembered that I already posted the above and could have avoided the double post.
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Seriously though, we wouldn't want to be anywhere but on our little farm. I do wish, however, that we could've started it while we were a bit younger. Make sure you have a good water source. Nothing worse than running (what seems like) miles of hoses in the dead of winter so you can water the animals. Our farm is an old dairy farm that originally gathered water from the stream that runs alongside the property. When we leased the property, the stream worked well (until it dried up one summer and froze one winter). Now that we own the farm, we now have 2 wells on the property, one for the house and one we had drilled near the barn for the farm animals. If you're going to invest in equipment, make sure you do your research and buy as high a quality as you're able to afford; replacing equipment can get expensive. Good luck!
 
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I want to do this eventually to. Mostly with self sustainment in mind but with a bit of extra income on the side. Like raising a pig for our freezer but raising chickens to sell hatching eggs, chicks and started pullets. Extra Roos would be dinner. I was also thinking of doing a ground clearing service with goats, but I wouldn't start that until after the rest is set up.

My biggest thing is going to be not biting off too much at once. Just one project at a time so you dont end up a year down the road with tons of work in and no workable result.
 
I know this is an old thred...but it really strikes a cord with me!

We wanted to do it too - and we started in Colorado and now are in Maine...learning as we go.

We have a website that has our hints and ideas...

www.almostafarmer.com

I hope the OP has followed her dream :)
 
Hiya! My wife & i started about 6yrs ago with 4 hens, now we have 50+ hens, Turkeys, Ducks, Quail's, Pigs, Goats, Pigmy Goats and two Shetland ponies! We live on a 200 yr old farm which lay derelict for decades but gradually we're building our dream! We only have 3 acres but wouldn't change it for the world. I've "retired" from truck driving though my wife still heads a successful team in a large property company. We also grow all our own fruit and veg! Keep the dream, it's bloody hard work but you'll love it! All the best.
 
We just purchased our home 6+ months ago and we have 5 outbuildings. 1 is a barn that previous owners had chickens and goats in. We have 15 acres and 3 of it has our barns on it. The rest is wooded. We built a outside pen for our hens ( yes we got some chicks in March and raised them) so we are using the barn for their feeding area and nesting boxes; and the outside pen which attaches to the barn for them to go out as they please and scratch/ peck. We have 25 hens, 10 reds and 15 black astralorps. Our red hens are just now starting to lay. It's exciting...I take care of them mostly by myself because my husband works a lot and I'm home except when I'm at college where I'm a full-time student. My 3 kids try to help, but they are more interested in checking for eggs only lol.
 
I read this thread and love to read about people experiences and hopes. I live in a region where real estate is extremely expensive and we work in town, so we cannot go too far out. Hard to get started with the price of the expensive farm land (big prices for 1 or a few acres). Love to read about people making their dream happen. Would love to hear more.
 
I have a small hobby koi farm in north west Florida. I had a real need to move and level dirt/sand but no budget for a tractor. I use this and it saves me hours of backbreaking work.

 

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