One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Vet said he had seen iron levels over twice as high as ours, in the 30's. Most of the well water around here is high in iron, so if that's the cause then all of the other goats are dealing with it. We haven't had a chance to discuss with him in depth. Need to do that and consult a couple of other people too. It actually wouldn't be to cumbersome for us to haul water for the goats. Maurine's daddy doesn't have a well on his farm and hauls water for 75 cows.

 

[OneFineAcre]

OK, so I finally updated my website today. I'm missing a couple of pics of Jr. Does, and I don't have current pictures of a couple of Sr's.

But, I had probably 10 emails this week about our breeding schedule so, I had to do something. Of course most of the emails were about Zamia. So, for the record, none of Zamia's kids are for sale this year.

The "Three Farmers Brown" tab is my favorite.

www.onefineacre.com

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[OneFineAcre]

I decided to move this to my farm thread for prosperity

If you saw my thread "Built Ford Tough" you saw the load of lumber I hauled on New Years Eve. Said I had a project to do. We had New Year Day off, so we had to get going.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Okay, for those of you that have not followed, we moved to this new place with 5 acres the first week of August. There was already a 16x20 foot shed on the property that was a great start for our girls. We currently have 15 Nigerian Dwarf does and Jrs. Considering the fact that about the only time ours stay in the barn is when it is raining, the 320 sf was adequate.

Facing the front

On the right side where the previous owner kept a tractor.

But, we have 11 bred does, so this wasn't going to cut it for us when the babies started coming.


So, we have alway's known that we were going to have to build more barn space eventually. But, we had another house to sell to free up cash and had to limp along as best we could until then. We sold the old house Dec 2nd which made a lot of things possible.

After we sold the house, I started to look into what was the best approach for us.

I looked at a lot of things including what others on the forum were doing. I finally decided the best thing for us was to just do an addition to our existing shed. The original barn is 16x20 (320 sf) and we are adding 16x30 (480sf) so it will be 16x50.(800sf) Yes, a little long and skinny, but like I said after considering a lot of options, this made the most sense.

And keep in mind, I have about $1600 total invested.

So here we go.

I got the material on Wed, and on New Years Day we got the 4x4 posts set and the sacrete poured.

 

[Southern by choice]

YAY!

Too bad the weather is going to be so awful the next few days! I know you have got to be excited and ready to keep on rolling!
This is going to be great... I bet after it is all done you are going to say... "How did we do all this before?"
The existing shed is a great place to add on to... looking forward to seeing the finished project!
Of course next year you will be adding another...
You know... more land=more goats=more buildings= more space=more oats

dangerous cycle you are in

 

[OneFineAcre]

Ok, a couple of things. We used stakes to plumb up the 4x4's on the left and right. But, I bought a lot of 1x4's to use for furring for the metal roof and siding, so I just used those to plumb the center row of 4x4's. Once the sacrete sets, we will remove those. Also, the center rows of 4x4's, since I'm going to need kidding stalls, I put the row of 4x4's as load bearing instead of having trusses to bear the load of the span. We will have (5) 8x6 stalls on the right.

 

[OneFineAcre]

YAY!

Too bad the weather is going to be so awful the next few days! I know you have got to be excited and ready to keep on rolling!
This is going to be great... I bet after it is all done you are going to say... "How did we do all this before?"
The existing shed is a great place to add on to... looking forward to seeing the finished project!
Of course next year you will be adding another...
You know... more land=more goats=more buildings= more space=more oats

dangerous cycle you are in

Weather?. We are drying this bad boy in tomorrow rain or shine.
I haven't finished posting what we did today.

 

[Baymule]

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[OneFineAcre]

Okay, we got an early start this morning. Removed some of the temp bracing on the center so this was about 10am.

But, I had gotten all of the framing material on Wed, and I had to leave to go get the metal roofing and siding because Builders Discount closes at 1pm.