I'm 42, an Air Force vet who's 3 yrs away from military retirement, and my dream is to move as far away from the city and suburban life as possible and raise a hobby farm with chickens (bantams and standard, whatever), raise honeybees and use the chickens' poop to fertilize an organic garden which the honeybees will pollinate. I want to name this place "Birds and the Bees Farm: We ooze fertility." That was my wife's idea actually. I'm ready to turn my "sword" into a "plowshare" and live a quiet simple life.
My birthday was yesterday, and my wife gave me a gift known a $60 book called the APA Standard of Perfection. It was my request. She rolls her eyes, because she's not really into chickens at all, but tolerates them for my pleasure.
I joined the S.P.P.A. (Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities) and the American Bantam Association just recently.
I began raising fowl when I was 11. I hatched my first chicks, two mixed breed bantam pullets on Labor Day weekend. I took a 25 yr hiatus from chicken raising, when I went to college and joined the military.
I hatched about 18-19 baby bantams over the past 3 days, and am I beat! I forgot that I never sleep when a hatch happens. I took vacation leave to do this, and forgot how thereapeutic the whole hatch event really is to a chicken nerd like myself.
The little chick I posted an emergency post on 2 hrs ago has a hobbled now that I made it. I believe it was congenital splayed leg. Hope the hobble works!
I have 3 children, girl, girl, boy, ages 21, 17, 15. My 21 yr old is engaged to be married next Memorial Day. Pray for me, a new Father of the Bride!
That's it from me, let's here about you.
My birthday was yesterday, and my wife gave me a gift known a $60 book called the APA Standard of Perfection. It was my request. She rolls her eyes, because she's not really into chickens at all, but tolerates them for my pleasure.
I joined the S.P.P.A. (Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities) and the American Bantam Association just recently.
I began raising fowl when I was 11. I hatched my first chicks, two mixed breed bantam pullets on Labor Day weekend. I took a 25 yr hiatus from chicken raising, when I went to college and joined the military.
I hatched about 18-19 baby bantams over the past 3 days, and am I beat! I forgot that I never sleep when a hatch happens. I took vacation leave to do this, and forgot how thereapeutic the whole hatch event really is to a chicken nerd like myself.
The little chick I posted an emergency post on 2 hrs ago has a hobbled now that I made it. I believe it was congenital splayed leg. Hope the hobble works!
I have 3 children, girl, girl, boy, ages 21, 17, 15. My 21 yr old is engaged to be married next Memorial Day. Pray for me, a new Father of the Bride!
That's it from me, let's here about you.
Anyway I'm biding my time. I live in Northern Virginia (I work at the Pentagon) and there is land in Fauquier County that is HEAVEN on earth, it looks like farm scenes in rural Europe. No wonder our forefathers settled here, it looked like their homeland. I probably can't afford to buy here. Developed land runs nearly 100K an acre. I'm sure a 6 acre farm would run 7-800K, and that's with the market bottomed out right now.
