If You had 300 acers of land, no close neighbours,and a bunch of money

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Been dreaming of winning the lottery lately.
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I have my eye on 580 + acres of land.
I have it all planned out:
Passive solar house
Geodesic greenhouse - or two
Milking dextor cattle (fresh milk, meat and oxen all rolled into one)
Horses - not sure what type yet - mustang or gaited
Chickens - dual purpose, probably some Buckeye in the mix
a couple of big dogs - possibly a LGD, definately an irish setter or two
a natural swimming pool
 
Ooh...I'd have:


-a fancy coop with separate coop and run space so that I don't have mutts (unless I want them, of course!)
-horses - I miss having a horse so much
-goats
- a well-maintained pond that I could swim in (I react to chlorinated pools)
-a huge garden
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-emus
-pea fowl
-plenty of turkeys
 
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Chickens
Ducks
Geese
Turkeys
Quail
Guinea fowl
pigeons
doves
finches
trumpeters
pheasants
Red Tailed Hawk
Emus
Rheas
Ostriches
Jersey cows
Fainting goats
sheep
cats
Arctic Fox
wolves (its possible to get them)
Amazons
Cockatoos
and a Superb Lyrbird
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okay, so how much time to I have to name all this, LOL

Minature Jersey cattle ( to expand my grandfathers foundation stock)

5 Large Chicken houses with separate grow out pens, with Solar lighting and heating
along with water catching systems

a huge compost pile

Many more breeds of chickens..like many many more

a large garden to grow various grains for all my animals in a natural way

A large OLD FarmHouse totally rustic and restored

A tractor- anykind

Miniature donkeys

Many new kennels for my very loved dogs that is very spacious and has an air conditioned room fully equipped with their own small pond

Large pond for leisure fishing

Several barns to accomodate the livestock

And of course goats, mainly nubians or boers

oh....and 1 white horse or maybe a few, LOL

Hey can't we all dream??
 
Montana here I come! I would have homes on the property for my family but not close enough to see from my house. I would have...

Alpacas not only can I not afford them now but it is so hot here
add a few more milk goats, I would probably stay with Nubians I love them so much, and maybe some meat goats too
RIR, Partridge Rock, Golden and Silver Laced Wyandottes with enough coops & runs to keep my roos from breeding the wrong hens
oh, and some Silkie hens to hatch my eggs, I'm not big on incubators but I would probably end up with one.
ducks
guineas
as many peafowl as I could talk my husband into
a few horses
maybe a few cows
a few donkeys
a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog plus whatever other dogs that fell into my lap that were safe with my other animals
meat rabbits
a large pond for fishing

That's not tooo much to ask is it?
 
OOOOOOOOOO!!! I would want

lots of

chickens
ducks
parrots
a farm
pigeons
ice cream!
Food
water
more money
more stuff
a genie
Lots of every pet
BIRDIES!!!
Game birds as pets
no annoying neighbors
no annoying ANYONE
My own TV channel about conservation
buy lots of rainforest land to conserve
Do nothing with some land (for the wild animals)
get a better camra (for birding)
get a spotting scope (for birding)
open a park (for birding)
Make people give me more money
become president and control overpopulation of humans
Open a conservation museum
write a book
get turkeys
get huge computer
huge TV
Every channel
go on BYC whenever I want
Even more SILKIES!
Never move to Philidelphia
get other fowl
do fun stuff
huge house
a car
be able to drive
Invent green...
house
lamp
computer
TV
car
train
boat
own an airplane
own a boat
own lots of birds (as I mentioned before)
own whatever I want
Be happy
 
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I think I'd sell the 300 acres, buy a five acre piece of land, and keep my current flock size. I don't really want any more animals than I already have, and 300 acres is more land than I'd want to look after.
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The same thoughts were running through my head. Why 300 acres? Was that just an arbitrary number; another way of saying "a whole lot of land"? If a person isn't going to seriously put it into production that's a lot of land for pet or hobby animals. If I had a bunch of money I don't think I'd want to work as hard as it would take to make 300 acres viable.

For the animals that the OP listed 10 to 20 acres would be fairly sufficient.
 
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