Its really kinda late in the year to oder chicks, but I had been wanting to order them for awhile now, but being the frugal woman I am I waited untill they were lower in price, they are still the same chicks only 'CHEAP'er....heehee...We always order from McMurray Hatchery and while I know they are a bit higher than other places I have never had an issue with them and they chicks arrive in top notch condition, so I am willing to pay a bit more for them...We ordered 50 layers. We ordered the "Brown Egg Layer Special" <--Click to see... and also the "Rainbow Egg Layer Special" <--Click to see  By April we should be seeing very increased egg production, we are hoping to moved to the farm in Oklahoma and begin selling our eggs to help pay for feed for all our critters.

Since our land is only 2 miles from a very popular fishing lake in that area we are also going to do 'worm farming' and sell worms for fishing...From what research we have done its relatively cheap to begin worm farming and can be a very profitable thing and since our Oklahoma farm is very close from a lake that is very busy in the spring and summer I think we could do pretty good at it...And our land does sit along a major hiway(hiway frontage). We are hopeful that we can come up with enough ventures to keep dh home and make enough money to survive and pay off the land in 1/2 the time.

So our goals are to raise and sell dairy goats with a herd of about 50, buy and sell chicks, sell eggs, raise chickens for food, raise and sell pigs but also use them for food for us, We would really like to raise guinea keets and sell them, we are also looking into selling ducks(mallard and rouen) and do the worm farm...with no more debt than we have this should be reasonable and taxes on our land are only 16.00 a year...LOL..can't beat that! Also dh does wood working type stuff, he builds chicken tractors, what we call rabbit tractors(will post a picture of one he built later), rabbit hutches, wooden nest boxes for chickens, he also build cute wooden bird houses, feed platforms for squirrels that attach to trees....just all kinds of stuff and we make a little extra money that way...God has blessed my husband with talent and we want to utilize it and give all the glory to God.

~Kris

Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by homesteadinthemaking

Kris,
Everything just sounds great. I hope it all works out even better than you have planned.
Blessings,
Trixi

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by a1health

I hope everything works out like you plan!
Blessings,
~Farrah

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Schatzi

Just stopping by to say Hi and praying that you have a wonderful week.

Connie

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