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[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yeah, Adam wants to move here, Jon and Sam both plan to move to Michigan

Sam has to wait til he graduates in May, though.

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Meri you do know that Croney00 only lives about 20 min from me don't you? And I'll be bringing Shelleys farm to her really soon...

ETA Since you didn't pay attention...I can get those black Cochins for you...

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[Mojo Chick'n]

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Actually today I had to pick Cortni up at her BFs house, go to Lexington to meet Tubby Chicken to buy those Favs and then had to take Cortni back to Barbourville...I am plum wore out, feel like I'v been on the road all day...Oh yeah, I have been...

Heya Cindy ::::::waving:::::::

I'm gonna be outside working all day tomorrow on the lean-to, so let me know which day you were planning to come over for BC (anytime this week ought to be ok, Jon has Friday and Sunday off, though, if that helps.)

I think the Jap baby will probably be happy to be put into the pen with the smaller birds - BC is so big she is starting to bully her a bit. I hate to take her out, though, and leave BC all alone - she'd be lonely then.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yer tryin' ta tempt me to buy those cochins, ain'tcha?

I really can't. I need to get these others grown enough to get out of the house, first, so I can figure out how much room I'm gonna have for more chickens.

Plus - I just spent 24 bucks on a nativity set that hubby whined about me buying

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I have to tell ya, I was SO tempted to get the cochins, though - I can use more hens

But, then I'd have to figure out what to do with the rooster. I guess he could go intot he bachelor area, but sheesh, I'm getting a flock of roosters again.

if he would sell just the two hens, I'd take them

meri

 

[FrChuckW]

Meri,

I hope they have jobs lined up before they go to Michigan. I am from there also, and my sister keeps telling me to stay here because the economy really s-u-c-k-s big time back there.

I've been browsing the internet for property at a reasonable price most of the day, found some nice sized parcels 2 acres and up.
Some even had barns and outbuildings on them already, just might need some sprucing up.

To bad that we don't have land available for homesteading anymore, although what I would do with 360 acres or even 640 I haven't the faintest idea except maybe divide it into smaller parcels and have all my chicken buddies move in and make us our own chicken community!

 

[shelleyd2008]

I'm sure you could figure something out with it! There are some rather large land 'areas' for sale right around where I'm at. At least last I knew there was.. The guy had 2 'lots' for sale. They each were 100 acres with a house, and last I knew he wanted $100,000 for each of them. One house is haunted and the other was struck by a tornado a while ago, but the basic structure on both is sound. Why would anyone want to move back up north? I'm from northern IN originally, and you couldn't pay me enough to go back there!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Well, he has a place to stay - he's moving in with a friend of his, and he "might" have a job - the jury is still out on that one. I told him he ought to stay here - where he has a job.

I expect he'll he be moving back home within a year.

We looked for three years before we found a place we both liked. Made a LOT of trips down to Kentucky from Michigan.

Barns and outbuildings are DEFINATELY a plus - they can cost half the price of a house (some of them) if you have to put them in after ya move onto the property. It depends on what type/size/material outbuilding you're doing.

You can go cheaper, if ya buy cheaper and embellish (like we did) but if you don't have help building on, it is hard to do alone.

Our place had three barns on it - all in decent shape, but the house was a trash heap - so about 4 years ago, Burlin (the guy we bought it from) bull dozed EVERYTHING barns and all into a hole and burned them. Only thing left was the concrete milk barn that he couldn't burn.

I really wish he had left us a couple of barns (but then, we weren't looking to buy the place, then, so he did what he felt he ought to do.)

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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There are places with land near me, too - but the ones with houses either the house is a trash heap (need major work) or the land has no house - one place has a fantastic barn, though, and county water hook up.

When we bought this place, we had to put in the house, all the outbuildings, water lines, new septic, etc... not what we had planned when we began looking - but, it was the perfect property for us, so we bit the bullet and bought it anyway.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

There is a really nice property over in Breeding, has a barn (needs a new roof) two concrete garages/work buildings and the property is reasonably squared off 4 acres, the house is a pile of rubble (IMO) the roof leaks, it was built maybe 800 years ago

- really ought to be torn down and rebuilt. They're asking about 70 thou for it.

but, the neighbors behind have cows in a pasture, the neighbors to the west have horses in a pasture, and so three sides are already fenced in.

meri