Small, I mean VERY SMALL, farms

[Stormhorse23]

Even with a lot of space, we are very limited on chicken space. Most is used for horses and/or cows.

What works is connecting runs with a bunch of doors between them so everything is seperated and they use one coop. Which is what is looks like you do!

 

[MTtroutwithwings]

We found our little 7 acre plot 2 years ago on the internet! We use to live in the big city in Colo. but wanted a old farm house with some acreage. We looked around from WA to NY and found MT. A 1907 farmhouse that was divided out from a bigger ranching company who no longer wanted the house(s) and the outbuilding that come with it. So there is our house, a bunkhouse, an abandoned 800+ sqft (originally a) chicken coop, grainery barn, round corral, 300 ft long loafing shed w/original blacksmith shop and three smaller outbuildings, 1) a 10x12 which is currently used as my chicken coop 2) 18x18 storage shed & 3) 20x40 manger were they use to keep small livestock like sheep & goats, I currently use for wood storage. All the outbuilding are either the original "barn wood" material or log. We were told the original owner who built the house was Eastman Kodak family but no one ever kept a log on the true history of it. We are surrounded by 2 huge ranching operations, Seiben Ranch (who we bought from) they raise sheep and goats, they surround us entirely then Chevalier ranch borders them who raise angus cattle but also leases some of Seiben's land for cultivating hay & alfalfa. We haven't done much with the land yet still trying to get a feel for the climate change and all the wildlife... deer, elk, moose (saw 1 once!) fox and tons of feathered wildlife, eagles, sandhill crane, blue heron, geese & ducks (wild ones) porcupines, the list seems to go on...so with all that I'm still trying to figure out what to plant that will grow in time of our short season or will not be eaten by the deer! Meantime, we're still just taking in all the natural beauty that already exist and started raising chickens. We have about 7 neighbors and the closest one is about a 1/2 mile away! It's so quiet out here! We love it!

You couldn't pay us enough to go back to the city!

 

[chickenlover210]

Don't worry I have .49 acres and a bool. 1/4 of the property is taken up w/ trampoline, pool deck and hill. Lots of neighbors around. I want to move to a farm!!
Oh and take out the grave yard
doesn't that scare you sometimes

 

[hcammack]

I really wish I lived on more but for now living with my parents in the suburbs of baltimore we have 1 1/2 acres and 12 hens and a 40x 40 garden with 6 6x4 raised beds and a 10x4 rasberry patch we also have blueberrie around the edges. I want goats and a small orchard but that is to come when I get out of high school and out of college I will by a large piece of property and get everything I might even take up a job teaching sustainable agriculture or mabe enviromental buissness advising.

Henry

 

[chickenlover210]

at least you have 1 acre

 

[claud]

That's the great thing about chickens - they work well in small spaces/properties. We have about 1 1/2 acres and I don't think I want much more than that.

 

[tiffanyh]

Exactly! At least you have one acre!

I actually really enjoy the graveyard. When we first looked at the house it was night time and I said--NOPE! Not living here. But now I like it. It is a historical site in our town, no one buried there since early 1800's. The town take care of it and it is always beautifully landscaped (more so than our yard sometimes!) My kids are still young, but they think it is "their" cemetary. If someone is walking around reading the old stones they say "why is someone my cemetary."

It is right in my backyard too--I walk by it everynight to put the animals away. My house was built in 1728 also. I never have for a second felt "weird" by any of it, which I expected too!

 

[tiffanyh]

MT--that sounds like a fairy tale!!!

 

[ams3651]

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My mom had her rabbits in, of all things, an old chicken coop. They loved it, the run was already covered over the top and they covered the bottom. Unfortunately one died while they were away and a year later when they returned after a weekend they found the other one missing half her behind and had to put her down. Still not sure what got her, there were no holes. They had a hollow tree stump and a large enough piece of pipe for them to hide in.

 

[Yanna]

I have a 25' x 125' city lot. Cry me a river!!!!