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slondeau

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25 Oct ’13 - 11:40 am

This is off of the back deck on my house. Terrible quality of photo really, my first panoramic picture. I may have to find a better app than this one (Android user)

To the left is a HUGE chicken coop I built (with a LOT of help... not very handy... trying to learn!) I used it for meat chickens last year. Should have built a much smaller place, but now I am going to use it for layers, see how it goes.

Pole Barn used to be a horse barn. I think we're actually going to pave the floor next year, was on the plan for this year but a mold problem in the house pushed that one back, among other things)

Garden is 50'x100' IIRC. We built some raised beds, have to build more. Not even using the whole area yet. Pond is very big, but needs to be dragged and maintained. We've been here 6 years and haven't done anything to it.. people before us either I don't think.

I'm on 10.5 acres, and if I remember right, it's about 300'x1330' or something like that. I have 4-5 acres of woods, what you see in the pic, and about 150 feet or so in the front I'd guess.

I don't know if this is the right place to put something like this, but I just wanted to show what I have to work with and start to get some ideas this winter or things we can start next spring.

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25 Oct ’13 - 11:53 am

very nice space you have there slondeau, what is on your priority list to accomplish? I try and pick one or two things a year and focus on those, it's very easy to get overwhelmed if you try and focus on to many things at once, so if you named 2 things you want to accomplish next year, what would it be?

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25 Oct ’13 - 12:13 pm

Thanks KVR.

I have some apple trees that are not doing so well. I have 6 or 7 trees back there, and only 2 have any fruit. one has one apple that is really small and looks bad, and another with 3. I would love to get these producing.

The chicken coop. I need to put a fence area up (my dog killed like 15 chickens last year, got into every enclosure I made at that time)

The garden. I'd say those are the top 3 things. The garden is really my wife's thing, but I want to be able to help more. I know nothing about gardening, I'm basically the grunt for her. "I pick things up and put them down"

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25 Oct ’13 - 12:44 pm

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Quote from slondeau on October 25, 2013, 12:13

Thanks KVR.

The chicken coop. I need to put a fence area up (my dog killed like 15 chickens last year, got into every enclosure I made at that time)

Nice place you have!

I'm hoping to build a better coop as well. I need an enclosed area so they can have access to the outside when I have to be away.

I've cured several dogs of chicken killing by tying a dead chicken around their neck for a day. It sounds mean, but it isn't. and it solve the problem.

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25 Oct ’13 - 1:24 pm

I'll try to put together some support species that you can plant around your apples to help them out. Depends on what's ailing them though. Can you tell if they're diseased or anything?

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26 Oct ’13 - 8:55 am

sorry to hear about the chickens, that's going to be a hard habit to break, did you plant the apple trees or were they existing when you bought the place?

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26 Oct ’13 - 8:57 am

here is a thread we did on Dogs and chickens that might interest you

http://thehomesteadi.....hread3145/

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31 Oct ’13 - 8:55 am

Thanks guys. I'll check out that link on dogs and chickens. I had head about the tying a dead one around its neck, but I never tried it. It was a mass murder situation, he got a LOT of them at once. So cleanup and better fencing/leash control was my thought at the time.

I planted the apple trees about 2 years ago in the fall. Here are a few pics of them: