Building a Barn Lot - FHC Farm Bulletin #10
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2024
- Just as important as the barn is to the small farm or homestead, the “barn lot” is of equal importance, since it connects the barn practically and usefully to the land around it. Not only does the barn lot provide extra uncovered space for cattle, horses, sheep, or goats confined to a barn, it also provides an efficient means of allowing livestock access to and from different grazing areas or pastures. In this Farm Hand’s Companion Farm Bulletin, the building of a simple and relatively inexpensive barn lot with welded wire cattle panels is demonstrated, along with the variety of options and uses it offers the livestock husbandman.
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Really an insightful video for those starting out. This channel is awesome!
Plus…a barn lot also makes it easier to gather a good amount of manure for the garden. It’s concentrated in a smaller area which makes it more convenient😊
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Thank you for this video. Good information and inspiration.
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I guess I’d never considered the importance of barn placement. That was really informative, thanks!❤️🤗🐝
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Great video. This is one thing I need to change some around my farm. I do like leaving the entrance to my barn fenced off from animals so I can walk to the barn in my church shoes if need be lol. I didn’t realize how important a small barn lot could be until I got into cows! Making me rework a lot of things here!
Gotta keep your shoes clean or Mom will not like it! I visited your video channel, it is a very nice one. I subscribed so I can go back for more. I particularly liked your solution for a hay feeding stand. Anything that saves hay is prime in my mind.
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Great job explaining the well thought out Barn and barnyard placement with different pastures. Who'd a thunkit?? Thanks for sharing with us Pa Mac. Keep up the fine videos. Fred.
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Great video! Are you still dreaming of draft animals?
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Barnlot design goes beyond this. My grandparents had a barn lot with buildings built around the sides of a square lot. On one side was corn crib beside chicken coop. One side had a tobacco barn. The third side had a three-bent barn, of which one bent was a woodshed, tool area, corn sheller area etc. The fourth side was a fence with a wide gate that opened onto the highway. Each building had doors opening to the square lot in the middle, and to the big pastures around this barn lot. The chickens eventually escaped from the center lot, but always rummaged around the buildings. A permanent fence and highway separated the barnlot and pastures from the house. There were plots for the gardens, orchard and field crops (corn, tobacco, turnips, oats). Pigs had a pen back near a creek. There was a Hog Hill too. One year they cleared this hill and ran a bed of strawberries. It was a child's paradise, even when we kids had to work. That was because Germans made every work day picnic feast day and fun day too. They always offered kids fun along with work: "We will go hoe corn, and there's a swimming creek you can explore there," my aunt would say. Or, "You get to Learn to drive the horses." This joy in work is something that the Calvinist slave-drivers must re-learn from Europeans. We never worked more than half a day often. But they were so efficient, that farm ran like clockwork.
Your videos are great and full of information for a newbie homesteader. I'm curious; do you train your diary cow's horns to grow downward and if so how do you accomplish this?
Panels should be stapled on the inside of the fense or a truculent mood will bust them off the posts
Hey paw Mac. If you lift a cow every day from the day it’s born…. You think you can lift it when it’s full grown? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
(New farm girl here grandpa was farmer but he is gone and dad was not a farmer) So I did this for my small cow and goat herd 4 steers and 4 goats but what should I put on the ground to keep it from getting muddy. The grass is gone and it’s clay underneath which was nice in the summer but awful the winter rain. Should I just cover the whole lot with hog fuel or bedding pellets or pine shavings?
I'm assuming you don't have a pasture for them to be turned out on, so they're only confined to the lot? If that's all you've got it's probably gonna get worse before it gets better. Puttin' something down will help for a short time, but it'll get muddy again only with those materials now in the mud. Pine shavings would probably be the best since it won't "matt up" like straw would.
@@farmhandscompanion they have pasture they are turned out on from the lot around the barn. I rotate them from the lot to the other pasture so the pasture is not getting tore up or over grazed but the lot (about 50’x50’) that the barn is in does especially this year we had no snow and just tons of rain.
I see.
Yep, it's just gonna be pretty muddy till things dry out. Mine's fairly muddy in spots, too.@@caitlinlazaro-hampton1310
Barns are oberstated and overdone. At least this guy isn't dropping $75k to build a glorified shed. One of the reasons rural land prices are outrageous is because everyone slapped a six-figure metal building in every 20 acre parcel