I'm not sure if this post will show up right away or not, as the previous one I did is "awaiting approval" from what I guess is because I'm new? I'm not sure.
At any rate, as I promised earlier, here are pictures of the does. At the time the pictures were taken, the brown does were 2 days old, and the black/tan/white ones were 1 day old. They are now 13 and 12 days old, respectfully.
I don't have any pictures of the poultry, as they will be shipped as day-olds so they are not hatched yet. We're getting Berkshire piglets in May-June-ish so they are not born yet either, but here are a few pictures of the last few litters the breeder had.
As far as our pets, I'd be happy to share pictures if people are interested, I just don't want to clog this thread up if anyone isn't interested!
Edit: So, this post didn't need approval. Since the other one isn't showing up, I'll just copy and paste what I already wrote because I responded to a lot of things that just aren't showing!
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Thanks everyone.
As far as animal shelters and fencing go, those where already mostly in place on the property. There is a a short section of fence downed that we are replacing, but it isn't a major problem for the time being.. The only thing we are doing for shelter building is buying some prefab sheds for the poultry and attaching runs. Since its so warm year round here in Florida, animals tend not to need much shelter.
Our growing season is pretty much year round. We have had some frosts lately, but then again we had days like this morning when, just before dawn at the coolest part of the day, it was 61 degrees.
As far as small creatures eating the garden, our perimeter fence around the first acre of our house/garden/coop area is electrified. This is more to keep coins and such out of the coops than the garden, though. But I know deer would have no issue jumping a 4ft fence with electric at the top if they wanted. We have seen rabbits around, but more in the pasture than on our first acre. We were going to use chicken netting for the short inside fence and electric wire for the outer fence. It sounds like it might work, since I haven't seen any deer around our property at all, and neither has our neighbor. I just wanted to be cautious.
The reason we were going organic is not for the produce itself being sold but we may be selling our eggs and such as organic, so our produce would have to be "certified" organic standard as well. We are still waiting to see about that, as it's tricky to find organic stuff around here and our pasture can't be certified for three years. Even bedding has to be organic, I believe.
For trees, we already have three types of apple and a pomegranate. We are getting some other types, but we're waiting to buy those until after our move in as we are not out there every day, and we don't want them to arrive on a day we aren't there. We are planting apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, orange, lemon, mango, avocado, and pear. We have a good section of land that's bare along one property boundary where we already have the pomegranate in the ground.
I will definitely post pictures of the critters when I can! I'm on my cell phone at the moment but I have pictures of our baby goats at home on my laptop. I'll attach those later, along with some of our property. The doeling in my avatar is one of our four babies.
Thanks for all of the suggestions!