How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

[HHandbasket]

We are somewhere in between. Our yard is completely filled with chickens, though we would like very much for this to be more of a farm/business than a hobby. For right now, though, it's a hobby that we very much enjoy, and we are really far out in the country/foothills in an area that is rich with farmland (mostly vineyards and family farms).

I do occasionally sell started chickens, baby chicks, and hopefully someday to get certified to sell hatching eggs. I do occasionally sell a few dozen eggs here and there to people here in the community.

We are renting on an alpaca ranch, but we have a *very* nice area and a pretty good-sized yard. I would very much like to expand this to the point where it is more farm than backyard, but for the time being, we are just somewhere in the middle.

 

[whiteflare]

Wow! I marvel at the sheer amounts of land some of you own!

I'm a humble backyarder, almost in the heart of the city, with a smattering of chickens for pets and eggs.

 

[NixNoodleNumbat]

I'm a half acre backyarder. The only limits are no roosters!

 

[whiteflare]

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Wow, that's absolutely epic. Those sorts of properties are virtually unknown to me, I haven't been out of the city much at all!

This site is turning out very educational in more ways than one.....

 

[whiteflare]

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Same here, I'd love a roo and to see little chicks running around here!

 

[gertiie]

1/2 acre backyarder/wannabe a farmer

 

[sonew123]

Farmer at heart? LOL backyarder with 6 acres ( access to 12) 100 chickens 6 ducks-small garden-sell my eggs eating and fertile to cover feed

 

[mangled]

Everyone calls us farmers, but I think we're backyarders.

Next year, I hope to be honest to goodness farmers.

With the addition of our 2 female goats and plans for purchasing a buck for them, plus plans of getting a meat cow and a pig next year, and the massive amount of chicks we've put out this Spring, with more on the way, I think by next year we'll qualify as a true farm. Plus, we may have a contract for meat rabbits soon.

We have 13 acres in our original plot and 93 acres of heavy woods we're purchasing directly beside us. Only about 6 acres is cleared for pasture, so that's what limits me from just going to town on it. If I had a few more acres cleared, I'd get a big pasture up and get me a bunch of cows, LOL.

Blessings-
Em

 

[stilldeb]

We are a 1 acre backyarder in a yard that is surrounded by farmland, so we have no restrictions, live out in the county, neighbors are about 1/4 mile away on either side, none to the back or across the road, and thank God the farm is now in corn, as they had 300 pigs out here before we lived here about 15 yrs ago! ha

deb g

 

[tigercreek]

Deffinatly backyarder, and will stay that way. Been down the farmer road (rancher technically) and it's too much work for an old couple like us. .......stan