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You know, I built two chicken mansions... http://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6699406/the-hen-hacienda-s/
seriously, they are almost to house construction standards and made two enclosures in each because I thought I'd be buying 4 breeds and would be raising chicks, hatching and selling them etc. Ended up selling hatching eggs instead for almost 5 months, so never got into it myself. Saved me a lot of time and effort as well as mess and clean up. There's a reason for that story...
I really envisioned getting a high quality papered nigie buck (or 3) and several (or a dozen) high quality papered Lamancha does and then breeding high quality mini manchas... Not necessarily all the way through to F6, but just for folks who wanted great milkers of a smaller stature than a full sized goat. I mean I might have followed it down line a little farther over time, who knows, but that's where I wanted to start. I was also intending to get a full papered Lamancha buck as well to breed standard sized, show quality goats. Many folks claim to love Lamanchas, but it has been VERY difficult for me to find more than a scattered few available, quality, breeders...
I made contact with 2 well known show breeders out here: http://www.ranchosnowfall.com/index.htm & http://www.southforklamanchas.com/ Talked with both owners several times and due to inadequate communications in both cases (not entirely on my part), never got the goats from them that I wanted to get. It may have been because I revealed to them what I intended to do with the animals I wanted to buy from them as they are "show folks". So I've now learned to
(well, maybe not so well). I wanted does from both places to ease the downstream breeding/cross breeding/line breeding issues.
So when I get to my new place, we'll see how much work needs to be done to get it "ready for use", then see if I still want to go that route or just get "some goats" and have fun with it. Not worry about producing/supplying FFA and 4H kids, or showing or any of that. Just have a bunch of goats and leave it at that. We'll see. I'm pretty sure I also mentioned that I'd like to get some meat sheep as well, and some hogs, and who knows what all else...
Fem, if you're south of Houston I wasn't EVEN close! That's a long way from Arkansas! SO now I have to figure out who it is on here that's in Arkansas that breeds Lamanchas... Harumph... Oh well
My biggest tummy acid producer at the moment is the upcoming appraisal... There are ZERO comps for this place... I mean zero. And the fact that I only paid 162K for it in late 2013, would indicate a 57% value increase over 2.5 years. If the buyer is going with a VA or FHA loan, it will be very difficult to "work with" the appraiser to justify the sales price where the offers are written. Even having multiple offers at this price... the appraisers don't care if there are no other comps to justify it.
seriously, they are almost to house construction standards and made two enclosures in each because I thought I'd be buying 4 breeds and would be raising chicks, hatching and selling them etc. Ended up selling hatching eggs instead for almost 5 months, so never got into it myself. Saved me a lot of time and effort as well as mess and clean up. There's a reason for that story...
I really envisioned getting a high quality papered nigie buck (or 3) and several (or a dozen) high quality papered Lamancha does and then breeding high quality mini manchas... Not necessarily all the way through to F6, but just for folks who wanted great milkers of a smaller stature than a full sized goat. I mean I might have followed it down line a little farther over time, who knows, but that's where I wanted to start. I was also intending to get a full papered Lamancha buck as well to breed standard sized, show quality goats. Many folks claim to love Lamanchas, but it has been VERY difficult for me to find more than a scattered few available, quality, breeders...
I made contact with 2 well known show breeders out here: http://www.ranchosnowfall.com/index.htm & http://www.southforklamanchas.com/ Talked with both owners several times and due to inadequate communications in both cases (not entirely on my part), never got the goats from them that I wanted to get. It may have been because I revealed to them what I intended to do with the animals I wanted to buy from them as they are "show folks". So I've now learned to
(well, maybe not so well). I wanted does from both places to ease the downstream breeding/cross breeding/line breeding issues.So when I get to my new place, we'll see how much work needs to be done to get it "ready for use", then see if I still want to go that route or just get "some goats" and have fun with it. Not worry about producing/supplying FFA and 4H kids, or showing or any of that. Just have a bunch of goats and leave it at that. We'll see. I'm pretty sure I also mentioned that I'd like to get some meat sheep as well, and some hogs, and who knows what all else...
Fem, if you're south of Houston I wasn't EVEN close! That's a long way from Arkansas! SO now I have to figure out who it is on here that's in Arkansas that breeds Lamanchas... Harumph... Oh well
My biggest tummy acid producer at the moment is the upcoming appraisal... There are ZERO comps for this place... I mean zero. And the fact that I only paid 162K for it in late 2013, would indicate a 57% value increase over 2.5 years. If the buyer is going with a VA or FHA loan, it will be very difficult to "work with" the appraiser to justify the sales price where the offers are written. Even having multiple offers at this price... the appraisers don't care if there are no other comps to justify it.
I don't envy your cross country move though. I've done too many of those to count, and just thinking about it wears me out. 
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