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Kit Fox · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:57 pm Post subject: Kit Fox's farm chronicles!

Hah... Figure it would be a fine time to explain how I whittle away my time. (Other than my full time "day" job)

My wife and I decided in 2010 that we would start a farm. Having little money after purchasing our home (technically the bank still owns it, hah) we got into the poor mans livestock - Rabbits.
She started with showing them (not unlike a dog show) and tried for a year to get me interested. Naturally she finally figured out my weakness... My stomach. She said I could eat the ones that didn't meet the standard. So that's how I started producing rabbit for consumption.
Fast forward 4 years... To today.
We finally saved enough money to get started on another species... We chose sheep since they are usually considered a good beginner large livestock. So naturally we needed something to guard them. The llamas come Tuesday haha. Seriously... I laughed when my wife said llamas make great guard animals for sheep. Plus llama is fun to say.
So now we are in the process of getting ready for them to be delivered at the end of November. The fence line is planned out and we will be breaking ground tomorrow afternoon. We bought a boat load of hay today (I also got a crash course in haying a field), a few bales of which somehow managed to jump ship and are probably sitting on the side of the highway.

We're freaking excited. Self sufficiency has been our goal for a while now. Next year we will attempt a garden. Although we seem to kill anything we plant.
Hopefully in a few years we can stop running in the red and make it to black... Then maybe green hopefully.

Kit Fox · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:01 pm Post subject:

The llamas Smile

Kit Fox · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:04 pm Post subject:

The sheep

Aslaug · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:58 am Post subject:

D'AAAWWW!! Cute animals Smile

ScottyDM · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:03 am Post subject:

Did you ever see a llama kiss a llama on the llama?

Kit Fox · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:33 am Post subject:

Bad Scotty... Just bad. Haha

GriffinX · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:42 am Post subject:

scotty i hate you... i have not seen that for three years and was completely happy having forgotten it. now i think i have forgotten some i.q. point somewhere. the only thing worse is lucky star.

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Kellan Meig'h · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject:

Looks like taggers hit your sheep!

Shocked

EXan · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:56 pm Post subject:

Kit Fox · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:49 pm Post subject:

Hah... We are rescuing them from the inner city...
BTW... THE LLAMAS HAVE LANDED! They're so freaking cool.

ScottyDM · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:09 am Post subject:

Frazikar · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:39 am Post subject:

Hmmm, and here I was hoping more for the Klingon "This need not be said."

Ah well, maybe next time...

Kit Fox · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:13 pm Post subject:

Finally finished the first part of my 1500'+ fencing project. Sorry for the crappy low light... It was getting pretty late.

The llamas are pleased.

Kit Fox · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:29 pm Post subject:

Going to be down in PA this weekend for a rabbit convention. Good times. Camping out at my parents place in NY till tomorrow morning after a 5hr drive, then its off to PA with another 4hr drive hah.

Good times.

The duckies decided to go for a walk this morning before we left.