Oh, man, how daunting...I recently agreed to look again at 100 acres+ properties after I thought we'd agreed to downsize our vision to about 30! DP reckons he can take care of fences when he buys a portable sawmill (he hasn't even seen one in operation yet, so we can't count on this!), and that 50 head of steer will be very low-maintenance...but he's going to keep working and I'm supposed to raise our two children, contemplate a third and somehow finish my current degree and look at a fourth year (to actually make this study count toward a qualification...) as well as help look after 100 acres. Considering all I wanted from a move to acreage was to keep horses without having to agist (agisting only one horse now, but want my kids to ride and DP wants to have a horse but only if we own land), it's a big ask!
Just last night an acquaintance was telling me that maintaining her 12 acres was difficult, with just horses on it. And today another friend was saying that she gets help (cash in hand) to maintain her 40 odd acres that she keeps goats on, and sometimes the goats make mince meat of fences - if goats do that, we're going to spend a lot of quality time fixing cattle fencing...
That 6 acres of land in Tonimbuk is looking REALLY attractive...!
Sheesh, reading this I feel I've waded in way over my head...