What are your Plans for Next Year?

[littlefork]

2012 Outdoor Plans:

1. Extend the chickens run by about 30',
2. Build a 10'x10' Potting shed with a greenhouse window,
3. Tear down a rotting 30'x50' deck and rebuild it.
4. Paint the outside of the house.
5. Plant garden.
6. Organize the equipment shed and the garage.
7. Find a good rooster for my flock.
8. Raise at least 4 more chicks for my flock.
9. Build an earth sheltered greenhouse.

Thats about it.

 

[CluckyJay]

I was thinking about the aviary. I wanna build it at the end of my house, I think. Maybe I can keep a few bantams in it. I have that little barred mutt and then Chocolate, RIR and Sir. Cocky Craps Alot, sebright rooster.

It would be pretty neat for them to have a landscaped aviary to raise some babies in. One year I am gonna get some more diamond doves.


I am transplanting more bursting hearts shrubs and think they will work nicely in an herbal hedgerow. The goats love to nibble them. Yarrow and mugwort are a couple other plants to add to it.

 

[CluckyJay]

Earth sheltered greenhouse! What a great idea!

What about planting trays of grasses and letting the chickens eat them? You can swap them out when they are finished. That would help out until you can fix their run better.

 

[Avalon1984]

Switch from full time to part time to have more time to build our farm
breed horses
buy a herd sire
plant a garden along the driveway
build a coop for pheasants
get me some cornish crosses

 

[yinepu]

get a few more coops built

raise some meaties

plant some more fruit or nut trees (already planted three persimmons this fall)

maybe get another standard poodle

 

[littlefork]

Quote:
Hey CluckyJay, our runs are pretty good just as they are, but I want to extend them so I can divide them into 3 sections that I can restrict access to if I need, one to dump compost (garden weeds, etc) into and the other two to alternate so the grass can catch up, but having raised beds to grow greens in is a great idea. I've see some on here that are covered with wire and want to try that too. Oh and I want to get more hens too!!!

You have a beautiful family!

 

[Clay Mudd]

Convert the 10x10 lumber shed into a coop (which means finding another home for the lumber -- or actually making something out of it!)
Build the associated run w/cover
Define and fence off a few paddocks
Plant more forage crops AND more garden beds
Add a few more hens -- something between a half-dozen and a hundred.

 

[erinszoo]

Hmm, let's see ...
1. build a turkey run and coop just for them
2. set up an automated watered with nipples for the chickens
3. build a designated gravel pit "wet" area for washing out stuff
4. build the geese and ducks a wood slat floor for their pen
5. reorganize the compost sites
6. add a couple of more raised beds to the garden
7. build shelves in the cellar for storage
8. paint the house

9. send oldest child off to college

 

[CluckyJay]

Thanks!


One thing I wanna try in my greenhouse, I saw it in Mother Earth magazine. I wanna run worm bins down the pathways and cover them with planking. I can use the livestock manure and all sorts of cast offs to feed the worms. I can have lots of worms and lose no floor space! The greenhouse will be a great place to set up my BSL and mealworm bins, too!

I wanna test out some chickens in the greenhouse too. Maybe raise chicks to turn out in the spring. Hmm. So many ideas, so NO money!

 

[Tiramisu]

Not quite sure, depends on if we decide to go back to school or not.

We will do a garden. We were going to do one last year, but it took us a while to find jobs, and then we didn't have the time/money.
Doing a better compost, getting the birds outside more and try to supplement there food with other things we grow more.
Thats really it for what we probably will do, and what I would like to do is..
Goats. I want them now anyway, but I don't want to get them and only have them a few months, and then leave and have family have to take care of them.
Starting the laying birds up again to help with the business.
Possibly get different types of birds to maybe breed/keep.