in-too-deep
10-19-2007 11:14:02
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Re: OT: but tractor related in reply to Dave from MN, 10-19-2007 05:56:08
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First year I'd rent out the 400 acres and the bins, because having just moved into the house, I wouldn't know what to do with 400 acres. I'd remodel the house, update the elec. and such, and then start thinking about the farm. I don't know about the barn, but I'd retrofit another outbuilding to house feeder lambs. I think some of that 400 acres near the house would end up in hay, and a bunch more of it in pasture, with really good, tight fence. The rest I would continue to rent. I'd probably have whatever hay equipment you guys recommend, and mostly IH 06 and 86 tractors, a couple 2-cyl. JD's for puttin around and raking hay, and a fancy, new and shiny Kubota utilty tractor with loader and a line of 3 pt. equipment. Another outbuilding would house meat rabbits. I used to raise them a few years ago, and I'd like to do it again. I'd have automated watering in all the cages, and a self-designed and built manure removal system in the floor, and heated in the winter to keep it at 45 or so. As far as the sheep, I'd eventually get some breeding stock, Columbias I think, and build up a lambing to finish operation. In the meantime, I'd be falling in love with a modest country girl, and we'd end up gettin hitched, take an Alaskan cruise while my generous retired neighbor took care of the animals, and come home to remodeled farmhouse. I still don't know what I'd do with the dairy barn besides give it a coat of paint and maybe a steel roof. I'd be busy enough with the sheep (fixing fence) and rabbits(selling manure), and whatever wifey wanted to raise. Oh, and have a whole mess of kids to go along with that... Boys, I could keep goin', but I better quit. If ya can't tell, this isn't the first time I've thought about this.
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