Elm Creek Farms
Mini goats, Giant chickens!
The Farm
Located South of San Antonio, our little farm is next to Elm Creek with a greenbelt behind us where white-tailed deer love to run. We have fruit and nut trees, Nigerian Dwarf goats, Jersey giant chickens, and geese. This is our first and only farm, founded in 2011- during the worst drought in decades! We have many hopes and dreams, but our limiting factors are money and knowledge, both of which we are working hard to acquire as fast as we can! We are not an organic farm yet, but aspire to become one a few years down the line. Aquaponics is in the works.
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As natural and safe an environment as we and our land can provide for an ecosystem of only a few quality animals to keep as healthy and happy as possible with everyone on board "employed" in some form or other for the benefit of all our kingdom and to move towards improvements and a happier future for everyone.
Any animals employed as future food shall be given royal treatment throughout their lives then carefully dispatched and respectfully utilized. We shall be extremely judicious in the animals we allow in as well as the homes into which our animals are allowed out. These are our coworkers, our friends, and we shall take steps to ensure that they never fall into the wrong hands. To this end we shall breed and teach them as best we can to be well behaved with kind dispositions so that other humans will value their existence as we do. We plan to stay small to avoid overtaxing our land, yet large enough to provide abundance.
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Our Philosophy
Farm Goals
Our top farm goal is to truly pasture raise our chickens. Right now they have a very large yard, but they are bound to the shed where they must return to at night. To this end setting up a portable coop and attachable roll-out nest boxes should solve it.
Our second goal is to learn how to take blood samples from the goats and submit them for testing in a lab ourselves, rather than pay high vet fees for a single test from the sample that they mail to a similar lab.
Third goal is to acquire new goats; a male unrelated to our herd of excellent lineage and able to improve our herd's weaknesses, and a Rosasharn doe or two.
Crazy wishes: to add a very small herd of black welsh sheep (1 male and 2 females), an aquaponic system with tilapia, a pair of American Guinea Hogs, two Lowline angus cows, and two jet black fell ponies to draw a cart where we'd sell our stuff from.
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-H.D. Thoreau Walden
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