I will advertise the milk everywhere that people frequent...feed stores, grocery stores, CL, coffee shop, facebook, etc. Interested people will do like a herd share and commit to a certain amount a week. I am trying to get my farm on the local farm trail so I can have up to 8 people a day at my place to buy milk, otherwise I have to meet them out at the main road. I will also do farmer's market and a few small local stores, especially for the cheese. When I find the right person and the right place I want to open a "From our farm gate to your plate" store and offer a place for people to sell the wares that are grown on their farm or made in their kitchen under the CA cottage food law. I have my eye on a store already, it would be very small and have a drive through window, but that is down the road by a few years.
I need new buck pens. I am not doing breeding like last year, one at a time. I want to be able to take the does that need to be bred to a certain buck and put them in his pen and leave them there. But my buck pen needs shelters and a place to eat out of the rain. I may be super woman but not sure about building these on my own.
I would like all of the feeders in a row under one roof and a roof for me to feed from too, and store hay. And of course the area I want to use faces south which gets slammed with rain and wind so it needs doors...life is never simple. I am thinking 6'x 8' for each eating and sleeping area and then the rest of the pen will V out to a wider width. I need a 5' overhang for me to walk under and store a few bales of hay so 13' of roofing. Not sure of the size yet for the rest of the pens...I have too many bucks...7 to be exact....and I don't really want to build 7 pens but there is no other way to do selective breeding. But at 6' across for each pen that is 42 linear feet of roofing and that won't be cheap, not to mention the stock panel to go between the pens. I have some 4x4 goat and sheep fencing I can use but I sure hate to stretch fence; I hate stretching fence. I also want to do part of it in stock panel so I can remove it after rut and let them each have a buddy or two. I will leave a perimeter run around the pens so the dogs can patrol the perimeter of all pens and not have to have access to each one individually.
I'm tired just thinking about this. I have about 2 months to get this done... I would love to just run out and buy some roofing but I have some old pieces that I may need to salvage but it sure is nice when it is all the same length. I am thinking that I may piece these together on the ground and patch any holes and treat them as one 15' length; never installed it that way but I might give it a go.
They certainly do have a way of solving puzzles, just not the right way.
