Yahoo! i'm moving to a 550 acre farm!

[maf2008]

Here is some advice... build a REAL BIG coop... Bet you wont have 28 for very long.... Its "eggdictive!" just you wait and see!!! LOL

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[Katy]

I agree with the others that you should start with one of the old buildings.....especially since you've never even had chickens before. As for the dust........as someone else has already said chickens are very dusty all on their own so some barn dust isn't going to bother them one bit. Just because a barn/building is old doesn't mean it can't be used. We use 2 barns that are well over 100 years old.

Be sure you pick cold hardy breeds.

Just because you have that much area, you need to remember you don't want to get any more than you can afford to take care of. I've got a bigger farm than that

but I have to keep a cap on how many I have because of the cost of feed.

 

[Chickenrandomness]

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i will try, i'm going there next weekend, so i'll try to remember my camera. but once i'm there i'm going to be be there for awile, and i wouldn't be able to go on here as much. the resaon it sounds like i already live there is because its my grandparents house, and they are letting me and my dad stay there, then their going to move to my aunts house and they offered their house to us. so that my storie.

 

[WriterofWords]

Have I mentioned I've been looking at teaching up that way..... You could always put a few cows and a teacher in a pasture hehehehehhe! Congrats!

 

[Chickenrandomness]

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i forgot what my dad said yesterday! he wants to tair down the building in the backround of that pic! sorry for any spelling mistakes.

 

[Chickenrandomness]

but there is plenty of wood around there. and i could get cheap wood from this one store.

 

[Freeholder]

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thanks for the advice, but in that part you said: "You are *blessed*, girl!" i have some enbaressing news for you, i'm not a girl.

Ooops! Sorry! (I almost made it 'boy or girl', but was too tired to go back and change it, LOL! We need pictures of US for our avatars, I sometimes think!)

Kathleen

ETA: If your Dad is set on tearing down what looks like a perfectly salvageable building, make sure you are careful how you take it down. The wood should mostly still be good. It will be more work to clean up the boards (take out nails) to re-use them that way, than it would be to just fix the building, though. Just keep in mind what I said earlier -- if you want to make a go of farming, don't spend ANY money that you don't have to spend, and DO NOT go into debt. That way lies slavery -- perhaps literally, the way this world is going. Have you, or your Dad, read any of Joel Salatin's books? His exact methods might not work in your location, but the principles would work anywhere.

 

[Chickenrandomness]

there is lots of junk around there, so i guess i could...

 

[Chickenrandomness]

i just asked my dad about that one building, i asked if he could leave a part of it, he said no, i'm just going to have to build something new, he even said he wanted to build stuff, so...

 

[Chickenrandomness]

updating on the breeds i'm getting: 3 barred rock pullets, 3 white silkies, 1 white orp cockeral, 1 white orp pullet, 1 golden laced wyandotte cockeral, 2 golden laced wyandotte pullet, 3 white langshans, 1 EGYPTIAN FAYOUMI cockeral, 2 EGYPTIAN FAYOUMI pullet, 1 silver leghorn pullet, l silver leghorn cockeral, 1 dark cornish pullet, 1 dark cornish cockeral, 1 golden campine pullet, 1 white cochin pullet, 1 white cochin cockeral.