I find myself in a similar situation over in Rockford, where they are building 12 baseball diamonds very near our home. Not looking forward to the light pollution and noise of screaming fans. Spring 2015 is when they will start holding games and I hope to be out of here by then to a bigger yard with room for more chickens.
12 baseball diamonds???? That is crazy! Nuttier than a pancake!
I am still looking for a farm, but need to wait until I have enough for down payment first, and when the time is right. Right now, farmland prices are on all time high, and the housing market is really hopping and prices are high too. But eventually the market will crash again, and the housing and farmland prices will fall again, and many farm and homes will be foreclosed, then I will be able to afford to buy a large farm, which I may only need to wait for a year or two. I would like to get a farm that have no less than 50 acres and up to about 200 acres, with several large old wooden barns.
Meanwhile, I have been hatching chicks and poults and selling them and hatching eggs too. It could be better. But all of my birds are doing well, no illness so far! Woot!
I have 17 pigs now, but just sold 5 and hopefully 2 more will go today, then I will have 10 pigs left. I am trying to get down to just my breeder hogs which is 6 of them, the remaining 4 will be butchered next week Tuesday along with the two steers. Since we got cut short on pastureland, the steers have to be slaughtered earlier than planned, so the pasture can provide enough grass for Bella, Maybelle, 2 goats and 6 hogs. I am going to reseed the pasture since it did not do well during last year's drought. Its just a dirt field with some weeds. I will seed it in a couple days before we get more rain. Boy, we got soo much rain in the last few weeks! Our basement flooded for the first time we lived here for 20 years!!!
Bella is doing well, and is almost 6 months along!!! 3 more months to go!!! I had to dry her off earlier than planned on April 1st, instead May 1st, for she got into the steer's bread feed and pigged out, as the result of that she got the runs. She was sick for a few days, so I just quit milking her.
Got a pure guernsey calf!!! Drove 157 miles to get her, and my best friend went with me and got one for himself. My calf is staying at my friend's farm as I do not have enough space for her, but maybe will bring her home next year after we get her bred.
I named my calf Willow, and the cow behind them is Bella's mother
