NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[Bruce]

On the FIRST OF MARCH!!!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ugh, ticks! I need to get more guineas -haven't seen a tick in years, but I don't have guineas anymore either so that might change.

 

[NH homesteader]

Wow I just made chicken noodle soup with a heritage cockerel we processed last year and I will never raise Cornish Crosses again! My husband went whoa.... I'm really glad you talked me into going with all heritage birds. It was delicious!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I love them heritage birds too!!!

 

[Latestarter]

Just a thought... 2nd hand trailers/mobile homes may be relatively "cheap" to buy, but they are expensive to move. And they are often valueless on a third attempt... You can't even give them away in most cases. Nothing personal against your friends but it really makes NO sense for you to purchase a mobile home and install it on their property... Perhaps your friends would consider purchasing and installing the trailer on THEIR property and then renting it out to you folks for 6 months to a year. After that point you could go month to month until you find your own place and then they would have an 2nd "income producing home" on their property that they could rent out to others.

If you do buy a trailer and place it there, what are you going to do when it comes time to move? You likely won't be able to sell it, nobody will want to buy a third hand mobile home and pay to move it. Gift it to your friends? Drive around in the country down south and you'll see all kinds of trashed out mobile homes rotting in place because nobody wanted them. You even have to pay to get them cut up and removed as scrap.

If you really want to go that route, consider buying a travel trailer (pull behind a truck) or even a motor home, that you can travel in. Put most of your stuff in storage, and live in the travel trailer parked on their property until you find the ideal place for your family. You can hook up to the electric, water and sewerage/septic there while parked. At least then you can sell the travel trailer or motor home or keep it for your own purposes for vacations or what not.

Still no reports on the supposed pictures promised... Do they in fact exist?

 

[NH homesteader]

It isn't secondhand. They have a deal on factory trailers. Like a ridiculously good deal. I'm not living in a camper with a 4 year old and two high energy dogs.

 

[TAH]

I'm not living in a camper with a 4 year old and two high energy dogs.

I live in a trailer with 1 hyper dog along with 6 siblings and my parent's and my mom is having number 8 in June!

 

[NH homesteader]

Yes... I can't handle that much chaos! Lol!

 

[Bruce]

Get a BIG travel trailer!

 

[NH homesteader]

Those things are more expensive than a mobile home! Seriously we are planning on being there long enough to get to know the area and find the right place for us. I'm not living in a camper that long. And by a good deal, I mean after a year or two it'll be cheaper than renting even if we have a hard time selling it.

Moving on- almost time to butcher our barrow, DH wants to do it while it's cool still so within a month.