Hello everyone! We've been making some plans on changing up our layout and just curious if we could get some fresh ideas.
Up until this spring we kept a large herd of boer goats and our farmyard was setup to reflect that. Now that they are gone, we'd like to take the opportunity to change up the farmyard a bit. Or maybe keep it the same but have some additions.
In addition to that, we also will be building a new home hopefully in the next couple years.
Right now our critters we plan on keeping are our two horses, chickens, turkeys and maybe someday we would like to have a milk cow(s) and peafowl.
So the main reason why I'm thinking of changing up the yard is the position of the hen houses. Where they are now...is not exactly easy to get to, due to the corrals and the corrals being connected to the pasture. We usually go through the barn, which is not idea. Plus, we just never see the chickens, which isn't much fun. One big hold up is that there is power going to them, which is a huge QOL and probably wouldn't happen right away if we moved them.
We would also like to add a round pen, fruit trees and to keep in mind an area for peafowl someday.
Also would like to use the open space just north of the barn/hen houses, instead of having to mow it....
I've kind of added idea to what I've been thinking so far (assuming there's not some ingenious spot to move the hen houses that I've missed and they stay where they are).
Just looking for some other ideas or opinions, the corrals can/will be changed anyway because they are designed rather poorly and aren't well suited for large animals.
We have lots of open space and it should be easy to plan this but I apparently lack that ability to think up something new. I'm better with working with what I got lol.
Sorry for the long ramble! Thanks for any insights if you're able to understand any of it!
Up until this spring we kept a large herd of boer goats and our farmyard was setup to reflect that. Now that they are gone, we'd like to take the opportunity to change up the farmyard a bit. Or maybe keep it the same but have some additions.
In addition to that, we also will be building a new home hopefully in the next couple years.
Right now our critters we plan on keeping are our two horses, chickens, turkeys and maybe someday we would like to have a milk cow(s) and peafowl.
So the main reason why I'm thinking of changing up the yard is the position of the hen houses. Where they are now...is not exactly easy to get to, due to the corrals and the corrals being connected to the pasture. We usually go through the barn, which is not idea. Plus, we just never see the chickens, which isn't much fun. One big hold up is that there is power going to them, which is a huge QOL and probably wouldn't happen right away if we moved them.
We would also like to add a round pen, fruit trees and to keep in mind an area for peafowl someday.
Also would like to use the open space just north of the barn/hen houses, instead of having to mow it....
I've kind of added idea to what I've been thinking so far (assuming there's not some ingenious spot to move the hen houses that I've missed and they stay where they are).
Just looking for some other ideas or opinions, the corrals can/will be changed anyway because they are designed rather poorly and aren't well suited for large animals.
We have lots of open space and it should be easy to plan this but I apparently lack that ability to think up something new. I'm better with working with what I got lol.
Sorry for the long ramble! Thanks for any insights if you're able to understand any of it!