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DA,
I'd like to pick your brain about your hogs. We're getting our first feeder pigs at the end of the month and I really don't have a clue about raising them. I'm doing a crash course with some loca ...

We have never spent $500 in one shot either. Rather, I've bought, grown, and canned what we needed over time, buying a little extra here and there, and adding to the pantry. Last year, we added on a n ...

I do take time off when it gets to be too much. I have taken a few days or weeks at a time, and from late 2005 to late 2007 I doubt I made a total of 3 posts. My absence came shortly after I lost my f ...

I'm certainly not the best person to give advice on this subject, because I had a hard time even *selling* our first two goat kids born here, let alone butchering them...

That being said, I would h ...

Wow.

You know, it's been quite a few years now that I have been telling people that we were watching the decline and (eventual) end of America as we know it. I guess it just never occurred to me th ...

Even the choir needs a good preaching-to once in a while.

I have fasted many times in the past, for the entire month of Ramadhan. Hunger was never a problem for me, as I often don't even think about eating except for once a day. Thirst was a huge burden. Psy ...

Shanny,
Congrats on the new baby! I'll look forward to the pictures. I walked in on Cinnamon while she was eating the afterbirth from her triplets this year (that's a LOT of afterbirth!). Yep it was ...

its absolutely mind boggling to me, give the destruction of property and people who stayed behind, that there are only a handful of deaths. How lucky Smile

Do you really believe that there were only ...

criticalmass,
Sorry to hear that. A friend of ours had a young horse that she wanted to train to pull a buggy last year. She contacted someone in Missouri and sent the horse there for a few months ti ...

bromius,
I don't generally cook tomato products in aluminum pans for the very reason you mentioned. I have an enamel coated pan that I use for sauces and salsa. That said, I don't think it'll hurt y ...

I've never used a heat lamp for my chickens. The older ones are very cold hardy, and I never let the hens set in the fall/winter, so I don't have to worry about the babies in the cold.

Last Januar ...

burton,
What I do for my rabbits in the winter is to take out their water bottles and replace them with bowls of water. They still freeze, but not as fast, and are easier to switch out everyday. The ...

Hermit,
I'm incredibly lazy so I do tomatoes the easy way. Unless I'm making sauces, I don't even peel them. If I just want to can tomatoes, I just chunk them up, peels, seeds and all (after washing ...

burton,
sounds like a fun weekend! You're off to a good start with the chickens - unless of course you captured someone's pet Smile

and they come looking for it! Smile

Yes, about six months old is when ...