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Post by kfriel on Nov 24, 2006 11:58:12 GMT -5
Hi, I just found this forum and really like it. I retired from the military in 2004 and moved to Seward. I dont't live on a homestead by any means, but I have a nice quiet piece of land. I keep a garden that feeds us all summer and allows me to put up some stuff for the winter. I raise meat chickens during the spring and summer and I keep six laying hens for eggs. I run a small trapline for recreation and I make a little money off it. I have been researching goats lately and I'm in the market for two young goats or kids now. Well thanks in advance for all the advice and tips. Keith
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Post by Jenny on Nov 24, 2006 13:41:12 GMT -5
Hi Keith, Again, welcome to the forum!  Sounds like you have a great little place down in Seward! Chuck and I had chickens for a few years but they were just too expensive to raise out here with having to fly food out for them during the winter. Although they free-ranged all summer, the average cost per dozen eggs (figured on a yearly basis) was over $4. Now, they were the best eggs I've ever eaten, and we did enjoy having chickens, but we just couldn't keep on spending that much for eggs and a little meat. Someone suggested ways to get creative by giving them more leftovers and such, but out here and with 3 little boys, we don't have enough leftovers to feed even one chicken! Most leftovers and animal parts we don't eat go to dog. Oh well, guess we'll stick with goats. Sometimes Chuck and I dream of moving someplace where it would be easier to raise more animals, but this is our home and this is where we will stay. Do you have any leads on goats yet? Let us know if there is anything we can do to help. Take care, Jenny |
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Post by kfriel on Nov 24, 2006 18:18:45 GMT -5
Jenny, thanks for the reply. I know what you mean about the price of keeping chickens, it's not so bad in the summer when the garden is producing but now, it expensive. Where is your place located? I do not have any leads on goats yet, if you know anyone, please let me know. Thanks
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Post by apoetesswitch28 on Dec 3, 2006 15:08:43 GMT -5
Keith, I have been chatting online with someone who is from my homestate NY, who lives near Seward. So I had to reply to you. I am planning a move to AK in 07 and Seward is one of the places I plan to visit. Tell me all about it please LOL.
Are you single?
Allie
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Post by Jerngen on Dec 5, 2006 4:05:55 GMT -5
Hi, I just found this forum and really like it. I retired from the military in 2004 and moved to Seward. I dont't live on a homestead by any means, but I have a nice quiet piece of land. I keep a garden that feeds us all summer and allows me to put up some stuff for the winter. I raise meat chickens during the spring and summer and I keep six laying hens for eggs. I run a small trapline for recreation and I make a little money off it. I have been researching goats lately and I'm in the market for two young goats or kids now. Well thanks in advance for all the advice and tips. Keith Welcome! For the record that sounds like my idea of a homestead! ;D Someday soon.......... |
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Post by kfriel on Dec 14, 2006 9:15:09 GMT -5
Allie, Seward is a beautiful place, surrounded almost entirely by the Chugach Mtn. Resurrection Bay comes in from the Gulf of Alaska and Seward is situated at the end of the bay. It is 124 miles south of Anchorage. The prices are kind of high, we pay .35 more per gallon of gas than Anchorage does. Its pretty slow in the winter, but the tourists crowd us a little in the summer. Affordable housing is a problem, and year-round work is hard to find. But if you can afford it, it's great. I spend a lot of time in the mountains and I'm very happy here. Where does your friend live?
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Sounds like you have a great little place down in Seward! Chuck and I had chickens for a few years but they were just too expensive to raise out here with having to fly food out for them during the winter. Although they free-ranged all summer, the average cost per dozen eggs (figured on a yearly basis) was over $4. Now, they were the best eggs I've ever eaten, and we did enjoy having chickens, but we just couldn't keep on spending that much for eggs and a little meat. Someone suggested ways to get creative by giving them more leftovers and such, but out here and with 3 little boys, we don't have enough leftovers to feed even one chicken! Most leftovers and animal parts we don't eat go to dog. Oh well, guess we'll stick with goats. Sometimes Chuck and I dream of moving someplace where it would be easier to raise more animals, but this is our home and this is where we will stay.