You mentioned it at the end but I'd say the number one thing is researching what your utility access is like since these kinds of dreams often involve a somewhat remote plot of land and you can be looking at a cost in the multiple tens of thousands of dollars just to get electricity.
I bought land and built a home recently, I can probably answer any questions you would have or at least point you in the right direction.
Mrs. Haus
Don't think a little part in the back of my mind was already thinking about finding somewhere where I could draw in the rest of the miscreants around here to eventually own enough of the land to incorporate as "Hoofsville" or "Rickshaw, Texas"
i have grown a few peach trees from pits and the fruit was crap. they all got rust early on and that might have effected the trees development plus frost kills the blooms most years. also have been told, growing a tree from a pit is a gamble, as it could be from a grafted tree, hybrid or something else. i don't like peaches and for me it was just about growing something.
That's pretty much where I'm at on it. Figure I'll take a gamble on if these turn out as good as the fruit I got the pits from, and if not I can go buy specific trees.
BrutulTM
How old is he? Runt calves are definitely a thing. Either their mother didn't have milk for them or they got sick or something along those lines and they never really catch up. Worming won't hurt but that's not his problem. You could feed him some grain or other supplement but that will probably make him get fat more than grow. You can definitely give him a hormone implant. It has to be put under the skin in his ear though, which might be tough if you don't have a head catch. That would probably help but it's not going to be a dramatic effect. From what I've heard it tends to add 50 lbs or so.
So of my 3 cows, the young steer came small and still is pretty small. Going to get checked for worms, but I was wondering if there's anything worth doing to try and get him to make up lost ground. Little Dexters I have them on 95% hay, and been doing cattle cubes/creep mix when we had cold weather. He supposedly had pnemonia or something when very young and was kinda stunted from that.
Neighbor seems to think b12 aside from worming. I was curious if there's outright growth hormone or something even though I'm sure your personally against it with the naturalism thing.
I'd be almost ok keeping him as a fairly tame pet mini cow, but if I get a full time bull, I think i'm stretching my carrying capacity of my pasture.
Ya like i said he had been sick, he was sold to us with the mom very cheaply because of it. he's like 6-8 months now, certainly smaller than the same age heifer we got.
That's pretty cheap then. I'm guessing whoever it is doesn't rely on those pigs for their living.