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[KinderKorner]

I'll have about 10-20 does probably. With around 2-4 bucks. Mom will keep the rest of the herd at her house, which would be great because we can share bucks.

I'll also keep my old horse, and perhaps one more horse until I can sell her.

The horses and goats will be kept in smaller pens because they tend to kill everything they are allowed free to. Then I would have 4 pastures for rotational grazing. With the biggest one probably being about an acre.

The grey area around the front and side is a road that has to be left open for the farmer that owns the field beside us because it's the only way in. It's just a dirt tractor road.

The orange parts are gates.

I think with this set up the trees and barn would block my parents house from my house for the most part. So we wouldn't be too close.

At least with this I know my neighbors are friendly.

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

I think that is great! I hope that it all works out for you. Congrats on getting married. :bun Please keep us updated. Do you have any pictures of your animals, well that you would want to share?

 

[KinderKorner]

Yeah. Thats the problem. I'm an only child and my mom is very much attached. I can imagine waking up and finding her making breakfast in my kitchen. She has promised me she wouldn't be that way. But I think differently. DF is not okay with that. So if we could sort out that I think I'd be a great idea.

I have put a couple pictures. I'm at work right now, but when I get home maybe I can find some old pictures of some of the herd.

 

[Ms. Research]

I think it a wonderful plan. And as long as you and Mom sit down and talk about your space vs her space, I don't think you will have a problem.

I did it for years with my MIL next door. Actually shared a garden (her lot was bigger). All she cared about was making sure she got her half of the tomatoes. lol

Wishing you all the luck with your new plans.

K

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Yeah. Thats the problem. I'm an only child and my mom is very much attached. I can imagine waking up and finding her making breakfast in my kitchen. She has promised me she wouldn't be that way. But I think differently. DF is not okay with that. So if we could sort out that I think I'd be a great idea.

I have put a couple pictures. I'm at work right now, but when I get home maybe I can find some old pictures of some of the herd.

Yeah that would be a hard thing to deal with. Waking up your mom being there. If it works out, hopefully she will be able to stay at her house, until you and your DF invite her over. If you don't mind me asking, do your parent's and DF get along? I hope so. Oh I would love to see some of the pictures. If it's a pain, I understand. Have a great day at work. Take care. Sending best wishes your way.

 

[KinderKorner]

Oh they more than get along.

If he isn't over here for a couple days both parents will be asking where he is, and he is often invited to join us for dinner and not by me. This morning mom already commented that she is making orange chicken for Lucas tonight. I didn't know that he was coming over.

Our familes get along really well. His sister is actually my best friend, I call his mother mom.

Thats the problem. I can see my mom and dad visiting every day.

But I guess thats what door locks are for. haha.

The more I think about the better of an idea I think it is. We would get to build a house just the way wewant, and we can pay for it over time.

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Oh they more than get along.

If he isn't over here for a couple days both parents will be asking where he is, and he is often invited to join us for dinner and not by me. This morning mom already commented that she is making orange chicken for Lucas tonight. I didn't know that he was coming over.

Our familes get along really well. His sister is actually my best friend, I call his mother mom.

Thats the problem. I can see my mom and dad visiting every day.

But I guess thats what door locks are for. haha.

The more I think about the better of an idea I think it is. We would get to build a house just the way wewant, and we can pay for it over time.

That's great news! It makes it nice when everyone gets along great! I'm happy for you. Hopefully everyone will be on board with it. Yes, door locks work great! I know what you mean about him being invited and you not knowing about it. My mom used to do the same thing. She loved making the thing's that he loved to eat too. I think it was because she always wanted a son. it's nice though, knowing that your parent's love the guy your with. So I can relate with you on that one. Good luck, and please let us know what happens.

 

[KinderKorner]

After talking to family again DF said no way to living next to my parents and no way to living in a "barn."

Father said no way to selling some of his land.

Gr. Men.

Still looking for DF a job and for a house.

I found the perfect house a couple weeks ago. I found it the first day it was on the market, called the agent to set up a showing and she said it was already sold. I knew it was perfect. I'm still sad about it.

What we are leaning towards at the current time is just to bite the bullet and purchase a 5 or 6 acre lot. Makes big payments on it and get the ammount down as much as we can. Then in a few months take out another loan and build a metal house. DF has said he would live in one if he had to. I personally love them. We would probably have to rent somewhere awhile we were paying down the first loan. But my parents still have our old house we moved out of several years ago that they are trying to sell. If by chance it's not sold by then, we could live in that for super cheap or free. It would be bad for them not to sell, but good for me. haha.

Overall it would cost more than we could afford, or want to pay. But since we could get two smaller loans and spread them out a little we could probably manage it.

Plus what is better than getting a brand new house just how you want it, plus 6 acres!

My only fear is a won't be able to talk DF into building a nice barn. I guess I can wait on that for a while.

College has started up again, and I already want to stop. I hope I can make it through.

On a good note only 31 days until kidding begins!!

And I sold a buckling that I've had offered for a couple months. Although they aren't getting him until like may. So he is still here taking up room and eating. ugh.

 

[KinderKorner]

Bad news on the acreage I was looking at. I thought I had finally found the place, but it had some deed restrictions. The agent sent me the deed restrictions today and what I got was a huge surprise.

It was about 10+ pages long.

It had such a list of rules I couldn't even understand half of them, but some of the big ones I remember.

No livestock, only dogs and cats allowed, but no dogs that bark, growl, snarl, howl, or generally disrupt the peace. No breeding any animals, or selling them.
Your house must be over 1500 sq feet. Only one other building allowed. Which could only be used as a garage, and had to hold no more than 3 cars. It had to be at under 1000 sq feet, and have only metal siding.

I mean it was stupid. It went on to say what kind of roofing you could have, how long of a driveway, what kind of landscaping, ect...

And all of this was for a lot that right now is being farmed for corn.

It was out in the middle of no where, surrounded by fields. No one is ever going to be okay with those rules. That's probably why it hasn't sold for the couple years it's been offered.

I talked to the agent and apparently deed restrictions are common in this area. Our county has a rule that you can't build houses on less than 30 acres, unless it's been subdivided, or already has a house. So basicly every small acreage lot I'm going to find is going to have stupid subdivision rules. gr.

Our old house has a big field behind it. I thought we could talk the neighbor into selling a couple acres, and I could buy the house from my parents. Well we talked to her a couple months ago and she said she'd love to sell us some land.... At 14 thousand an acre.

I think I'm doomed to not have land or animals.

I found a double wide on 5 acres. We could live in that while we build a new house. But it's 35 minutes away, and I'm just not sure I want to drive that much everyday for my job.

 

[KinderKorner]

Ahh. Yesterday morning I went to feed the critters. I was feeding the horses and the bucks were crying so I turned to give them some food and Jacob my adorable and sweet pygmy buck is laying flat on the ground in the rain, stiff legged. I thought he was dead. I run as fast as I can to the pen and the tears are already flowing. I get in and get close to pick him up and he opens his mouth and cries at me. He's alive! I scoop him up fast and battled 6 bucks out the gate. I put him in his own pen and he falls down when I set him on the ground. I noticed how skinny and weak he is. I don't even know what happened.

He has no runny nose, and he has been perfectly fine.

But I have noticed lately when I fed the boys hay he hasn't been eating with them much. But he is super spoiled and stands at the gate and cries for grain all the time so I thought he was just begging and when I would go inside I assumed he went back to eating hay with the other boys. Apparently not, and we didn't notice him loosing weight through all the fur.

His eyelids are whiter than I have ever seen.

There is two things I think it could be.

#1 His old owner gave his goats medicine and wormer every month as preventative. I think that is stupid and we do not do that here and all our goats are healthy and we only worm as needed, i think treating all the time makes the effects of the wormer and medicine not work anymore. Maybe because he was so used to medicine and wormer he just doesn't have the resistance my goats have. But we have had him almost a year and a half already....

#2 He is getting to spoiled on grain and is just too picky to eat hay anymore. He begs all day for grain, and he only picks through his hay. It might have made him sick and he just got a worm overload.

He ate a little handful of grain. And I gave him some hay which he just barely nibbled and sniffed. He is super friendly and looks like he wants help. He practically climbs into my lap. I got wormer down him, red cell, and probios.

Today he is still very weak. He tripped on his house and fell down on his side and I had to help him up. He is just barely nibbling his hay but if you give him grain he gobbles it up. We are going to have to do something about that.

He is in with a little buckling, and I'm hoping he starts eating hay again. Will continue doing red cell, and get some vit b down him. Please pray for my little guy. He is for sure a favorite around here.

I want to cut off his grain so he goes back to eating his hay, but he is so thin and sick I hate to take away his only source of food.

I feel so bad that I didn't notice he was sick. But honestly he seemed fine until yesterday. Even now he seems okay, just very weak. But he is still bright eyed, and friendly, and still crying for grain. He is chewing his cud which is good.

We have had terrible weather here lately. It is 50 one day and 20 the next, it's been raining fora week, and there is standing water on the ground. Today no rain so far, but now I think we are calling for snow.

It will take a long time to get his blood count back up to normal. Please pray that he begins eating again and that he pulls through.

It freaked me out, and I was worried all my other goats were in as bad as shape as him, but after eyelid checks, everyone else is fine. So I don't know what is going on with his little guy.