I found a 2 acre parcel that is adjacent to some of my flood-plain acreage, but it is *shock and awe* off the flood plain!
it has a 24x36 pole barn on it, concrete floor and electricity, and is a little rough yet, but I think will work great for me. I'll post some pictures in a couple of days.
$30,000 for it. Very happy with that price, as a pole barn of that size goes for about $10k, and the concrete floor is another $3k, and electrical hookup $3k. So I really paid 14k for 2 acres of useable land. Around here, that's cheap.
Really looking forward to having a barn with electricity. I've been in a sort of self-enforced off-the-grid kinda mode for my farm as I don't have electricity there, and while I've proven I can do it, having some power will make some things MUCH easier. Like brooding chickens.
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Good for you! You did get that for a good price!
Yes, I brooding chicks is a lot easier with electricity. I have done it for a couple days without electricity when the power was out and it was no fun.I did not know your farm had no electricity.
Were you getting tired of brooding chickens in the living room? LOL.I currently have turkeys in the bedroom and ducks in the living room. Plus the light from the incubator makes a good nigh light too. My wife and I were talking yesterday about putting a room for incubating/brooding in the pole barn thats going up this summer. We are planning on dedicating one room that we can heat to around 90 degrees. Compared to all the 250 watt heat lamps we are burning now that will be cheaper. Cant wait to see pics of the new barn.
Working on offgrid incubation and brooding. Have to propogate my ducks...
I can not tell you how tired I am of chickens in the house. And sick piglets. And geese. and ducks and ... So looking forward to having a barn with electricity!
LOL, glad to know I'm not the only insane person with baby animals in the house. You think turkeys in the living room is bad? Try emus in your bath tub.
Yup, barns with electricity are a wonderful thing!
Emus are BIG. Seriously big, even as chicks!
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