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[nnbreeder]

Geez I wish we had a farm so we could produce enough to sell and provide our own income. That's what we'd really love to do. I guess I'll start picking up a few more chickens here and there so we have more eggs to sell and incubate and try selling some of the babies, as well as breeding both of our rabbits at the same time so we can sell rabbits too. It won't be much but it will be another step toward the goal. Anyone know of a source to sell tanned rabbit skins?

If you check Craig's list for NW Ok. there is almost nothing on there so the market should be wide open. As far as I know there are no poultry swaps or anything like that close.

Finding a place around Enid has been tough. Found a 30 acre patch for 6K an acre but there were covenents with it, like no critters. Found a place on East Market street just East of Enid, 53 acres for 150,000. Be a good buy if it didn't flood in that area. And some of the high priced stuff is not good ground either, that's why it's pasture. If it's disturded by working it up it blows really bad and in wet years it gets really boggy. I wonder if the realestate agents are disclosing that. LOL I have taken a 4wd tractor or our Cat to pull people around on the very places that they are putting in big houses.


When we were in the area in the early to mid '90s land could still be had for 1000 an acre and there were farm houses to rent. Not any more. People up there act like there is a boom going on or something. Nearly caused a scandel when a farmer gave 250,000 for a quarter back in about '90 and that place had a feedlot and working alleys on it for cattle.

 

[nnbreeder]

Picked up a good deal today. Single bottom garden plow, single row disc, backblade and landscape rake for garden tractors all for 200 dollars. And these are the three-point hook up made for a Sears tractor. Guess now I gotta go pull the old one I have out of the back pasture and fix it up.

See there are still good buys out there.

 

[erinszoo]

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Around here, part of the problem with costs has been the oil boom. Everyone seems to think their land is just saturated with oil and is therefore worth more. We actually found a piece of land near Perry, which is kind of the area we've been looking, for just under 4K an acre but we don't have enough for the down payment yet. It even has a barn, driveway, electric, water and fences already so we'd have to build a house but that's easy enough. We thought that was a fairly good price since we don't have to run electric or dig a well. We've been looking into farm loans and grants for new farmers but don't know if we'll qualify, especially since hubby doesn't have a job now. Ugh.

Why would there be convenants for no critters on 30 acres of land? That's just ridiculous. I can understand zoning for feed lots or such but for having a few chickens and couple of cows and goats? And people wonder why Americans can't take care of themselves and rely on the government for so much ...

 

[erinszoo]

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Lol! My son is saying since he has money to buy food elsewhere, he won't eat that much of it. Hahahahahahaha!

This from the child who is hungry ten minutes after we finish a meal!

And thanks! We need all the prayers we can get!

 

[Oceanseve]

Skunk

Sounds like a possom.

Thanks guys, I'll try to keep a look out for either of those

When in kindergarten the teacher asked the class where chicken eggs came from.

Of course my granddaughter got all excited and raised her hand doing the ohh pick me wave, so the teacher did.

"Eggs come from a chicken's butt" was her answer which horrified the teacher and she told Alexis that eggs came from the store. "Nope they don't, I've seen them come out and sometimes they have poop on them"

Of course that warrented a trip to the office but Teva wouldn't let me go with her because I wanted to take a hen or two for close inspection of an "egg hole" in them.

Alexis gathered her first eggs with me when she was about two and when she is here always helps me take care of the birds. Probably knows more about them then most of our educators do, cept those here on the board of course.

hahaha that's something my kids would do hahahaha seriously sent to the office for telling the truth??

When we were in the area in the early to mid '90s land could still be had for 1000 an acre and there were farm houses to rent. Not any more. People up there act like there is a boom going on or something. Nearly caused a scandel when a farmer gave 250,000 for a quarter back in about '90 and that place had a feedlot and working alleys on it for cattle.

There were still deals like that around the city in 03, DH and I are still kicking ourselves for the deals we passed up back then.


erinszoo - you probably could find some medieval fair vendors interested in rabbit skins

 

[NanaKat]

Temps were in the high 60s this morning!!!!
Hope everyone has a great Saturday.

 

[MacGuyver]

I take it you like Paul McGann? From your posts I would have never guessed it. LOL!

You could say that.

I would actually join his fan club, the Paul McGann Estrogen Brigade, but I think they're defunct.

 

[NanaKat]

When in kindergarten the teacher asked the class where chicken eggs came from.

Of course my granddaughter got all excited and raised her hand doing the ohh pick me wave, so the teacher did.

"Eggs come from a chicken's butt" was her answer which horrified the teacher and she told Alexis that eggs came from the store. "Nope they don't, I've seen them come out and sometimes they have poop on them"

Of course that warrented a trip to the office but Teva wouldn't let me go with her because I wanted to take a hen or two for close inspection of an "egg hole" in them.

Alexis gathered her first eggs with me when she was about two and when she is here always helps me take care of the birds. Probably knows more about them then most of our educators do, cept those here on the board of course.

There are some city folk who don't know anything about where their food comes from but what comes from the store.
Our nephew commented that "you must not have bleached the eggs this week" in reference to our brown eggs.
A friend that does educational bits for the Calif State Fair said he has numerous people who don't know where eggs come from, nor milk. He always has funny stories about crowds of people who gasp when achicken lays an egg or a goat kid nurses it's mom...and the comments that follow the gasps of realization.
Poor teacher may be one of those who doesn't know any better and sounds inexperienced with dealing with comments from her children.

 

[nnbreeder]

Around here, part of the problem with costs has been the oil boom. Everyone seems to think their land is just saturated with oil and is therefore worth more. We actually found a piece of land near Perry, which is kind of the area we've been looking, for just under 4K an acre but we don't have enough for the down payment yet. It even has a barn, driveway, electric, water and fences already so we'd have to build a house but that's easy enough. We thought that was a fairly good price since we don't have to run electric or dig a well. We've been looking into farm loans and grants for new farmers but don't know if we'll qualify, especially since hubby doesn't have a job now. Ugh.

Why would there be convenants for no critters on 30 acres of land? That's just ridiculous. I can understand zoning for feed lots or such but for having a few chickens and couple of cows and goats? And people wonder why Americans can't take care of themselves and rely on the government for so much ...

Of course most are too young to remember the real boom back in the 70s. Nearly 750 drilling rigs working just in the state of Ok. Penn State bank failed and poof, it all went away overnight. When it started back up again most of the old hands didn't want any part of it, or were just too old to work a rig. Rig hands are not getting paid nearly as well today as they were back then.

Check the USDA website for grants and loans. I know there is a startup type loan but you are right, there has to be outside income coming in plus a lot of other requirements. Keep digging, i'm sure there is something out there.

Improved land such as you found is a good deal. Isn't there pretty good ground around Perry? I know when you get just a tad West it starts going downhill fast.

The reason for the covenants was that they want McMansions to go in there. Sq footage of no less then 2500 feet, rocked, and all of the other stuff that goes along with it. Country living without the sights, sounds or smells of real country living. Nothing says welcome neighbor better then an old dead cow wasteing away in the back pasture!! LOL

 

[MacGuyver]

Of course most are too young to remember the real boom back in the 70s. Nearly 750 drilling rigs working just in the state of Ok. Penn State bank failed and poof, it all went away overnight. When it started back up again most of the old hands didn't want any part of it, or were just too old to work a rig. Rig hands are not getting paid nearly as well today as they were back then.

Check the USDA website for grants and loans. I know there is a startup type loan but you are right, there has to be outside income coming in plus a lot of other requirements. Keep digging, i'm sure there is something out there.

Improved land such as you found is a good deal. Isn't there pretty good ground around Perry? I know when you get just a tad West it starts going downhill fast.

The reason for the covenants was that they want McMansions to go in there. Sq footage of no less then 2500 feet, rocked, and all of the other stuff that goes along with it. Country living without the sights, sounds or smells of real country living. Nothing says welcome neighbor better then an old dead cow wasteing away in the back pasture!! LOL

We are pretty lucky in that there aren't any covenants or anything on our place. We're the scary hippies in our neighborhood. Every other place around us is either a McMansion or a super expensive fancy horse farm. The only reason we could afford to live here is that our house was an underground house. They base sale price on homes "of similar architectural style" and I guess most of the other underground houses in OK are in areas where the land costs a lot less.