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A Farm of My Own:  setting up new farm... ideas / suggestions wanted  |
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AnnaBee
Farmgirl at Heart
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Anna
Upper Marlboro
Maryland
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 Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 07:31:56 AM
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Okay, here is my list of priorities as soon as I move... I'd like input, suggestions, brainstorms, etc. Anything I've left out? Anything in the order you'd change? I'm looking for creativity! The barn, by the way, is an old tobacco barn. So here we go...
PRIORITIES
1. Install electric fence, buy water trough and hose so I can move in horses. (They will have woods for shelter for now).
2. Rent a Ditch-witch, run a water line from the house to the field (maybe 100 yards).
3. Build feed bins for horse feed.
4. Fix barn roof (has hole needs patched), remove attached lean-to that's falling down. (This project entails 2 helpers and renting a cherry-picker to get up on the roof.)
5. Build a stall in the barn (just in case it's needed for a sick horse, not planning on having them regularly stalled).
6. Build roof and sides over tractor storage shed (previous owner installed poles for pole barn, but never got any farther!)
7. Build chicken house and pen (I'll have something temporary in the meantime for my 2 hens).
8. Build run-in shed for horses.(I figure this could take a week or so.)
9. Install hitching rails to tie and tack horses. (1 by barn, 2 by field).
That's my list for now... I welcome any input!
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 12:50:22 PM
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What about digging and setting up a veggie garden? It is getting on in the year and for a fall harvest (depending on where you are) you might want to spend a day doing that if you don't have one already?
I am so jealous!
Ciao
Alee |
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countrykat
True Blue Farmgirl
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kathy
paola
kansas
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 1:42:15 PM
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I like your list, also, noticed that you have nothing on the list for the house. I can relate. That's how we handled things here when we moved in 18 months ago. We moved on Saturday and moved the four horses in on Sunday. We already had some fencing up, all we had to add was the top strand and the plastic caps for the t-posts. Thankfully all the gates and troughs were in place. We ran water and electric to the barn and paddocks (here in Kansas we need to plug in a tank heater inside and out) and that made life a lot easier. That first winter I was hauling water (two buckets at a time) the the barn, two or three times a day. Our barn was actually a three sided shed. It has since had a makeover and looks great, has two sliding doors, one on the hay side and one on the horse side. We need one more door on the horse side, opposite the existing one, to open up the ally and create access to the paddock behind the barn.
I paid a retired man to build my chicken coop. He uses recycled housing material so it's a sturdy structure. We had been keeping the babies in our small horse trailer, which turned out to be a good brooder house. I then converted the shed out back to be half storage/garden and the other half brooder house. Eventually I hope to move all the chickens out there and repurpose the bought chicken house as a garden shed.
We don't have hitching rails, we just tie the horses to one or the other trailers. I would like a shed for my buggy though. Right now I keep it in the barn but there are critters and dust that worry me. Plus I hate dragging it across the horse paddock when I want to take it out.
You have quite a list of chores. Good luck. |
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george
Farmgirl in Training
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george
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Posted - Jun 25 2005 : 7:34:08 PM
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| hi annabee i think you should check where the corral is going to be and make sure that the wood that is in or close to the corral is or has'ent been treated because horses like to chew on things when they get board and check for sharp objects to i hope i helped and good luck ok .chicken george :o) |
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setting up new farm... ideas / suggestions wanted
