this place is worthless for my needs

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this place is worthless for my needs

 

[baymule]

Thanks, and I know I totally lucked out on finding this place!! Actually I didn't find a place so much as a person into the same lifestyle as I who already had this place! Super lucky especially since he's an all-around awesome guy with whom I have very much in common besides this lifestyle.

How it happened was I lived in Michigan, and several other states before that, was a long-term basically lost wanderer with a goal I couldn't achieve on my own, long wanting this lifestyle but lacked the land and resources to buy such, plus had no large livestock experience, just knew about poultry and everything I knew about cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. was from YouTube homesteading videos.

Original plan was to find, through dating sites since it definitely was not happening in Michigan, a man with similar goals who either had or wanted to buy enough land for this kind of life, in Montana or Idaho, or maybe Wyoming or Dakotas. Then property prices went crazy, I was also looking for land/farm to buy on my own with my property in Michigan I could sell plus savings in case I did not find the man of my dreams, and I realized that due to property price insanity I could no longer afford any suitable place in MT/ID and Minnesota then became the destination of choice since it was still affordable for me. So I simply changed my dating site location and preferences to Minnesota, and almost immediately found this man of my dreams.

He was born and raised on this 240 acre farm so neither he nor I had to purchase it, and it has not been available/for sale to any prospective developers or anyone else since his father bought and developed the land for farming in the 1950s. And I have the money from my Michigan property sale, as well as various home/farm businesses both he and I have so we're pretty well set up for life now it seems, though obviously up to us to do the work of continuing to make this possible and we're neither rich nor poor. It's completely, almost unbelievably perfect.

I love a happy story. It’s not a happy ending, it’s a happy beginning.

 

[Mini Horses]

You were fortunate to buy a farm with useable, stable buildings AND established hay fields. They are a find. In my area, something that large would be "developer fodder", sadly. Good start on herd. Decision on wild bull, definitely the right one!! Enjoy a steak for me. 😁👍

 

[CrealCritter]

We just picked up a yearling belted galloway red bull calf, the ladies in my life named him Romeo. So far, he's very well mannored and mellow. I would like to halter train him, but I know I don't have the time to dedicate to doing this. We are going to give him a try and see what happens. If he doesn't continue to stay well mannored, he'll go to the processor for meat.

Romeo is in the foreground.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[Mini Horses]

He has some nice curls going on 😁👍

If you want to halter train, do it quick before the hormones kick in.

 

[CrealCritter]

Very nice looking cattle! Just wondering, what are your long-term plans for this Belted Galloway, if he stays nice? Do you plan to breed him, or tame him just to be a farm pet, or ?? Also are those others (Angus?) destined for meat or ?

The belted galloway red bull, is for breeding our dun belted galloway cow and 2 hefiers. for very light milk production and beef it's just my wife and I we don't need gallons of milk daily, we barely drink a gallon every two weeks.

It takes about 2 years to finish a grass fed steer or hefier for processing. About 21 months on grass & hay and about 3 months on grain and corn. I refuse to be a feedlot, or else I could finish them a lot quicker. I do give them a small ration of grain & corn daily, to help keep their fat white and provide minerals and vitamins they need to stay healthy. Reminds me... I need to set out the mineral lick now that winter is approaching and they will be on hay when the pasture is frozen.

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[baymule]

It’s a smart thing to start out with mixed breed or unregistered animals. They are valuable in the things they teach you. As you said, this gets you started and you can up grade as you go. Good move on the wild bull. Dinner he is!

 

[Hinotori]

Highlands are rather popular around here.

Looks like a wonderful start

 

[Mini Horses]

He was born and raised on this 240 acre farm so neither he nor I had to purchase it, and it has not been available/for sale to any prospective developers or anyone else since his father bought and developed the land for farming in the 1950s. And I have the money from my Michigan property sale, as well as various home/farm businesses both he and I have so we're pretty well set up for life now it seems, though obviously up to us to do the work of continuing to make this possible and we're neither rich nor poor. It's completely, almost unbelievably perfect.

Whoa.....now THAT is a story!

 

[CrealCritter]

Cattle love alfalfa 😋 nice looking cattle👍

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸