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    My Gander is a Bully.

    I think all of the above points are great! I wish I could put up a fence, but the yard area is several acres. I use a stick when corralling him and the ducks, but I LOVE the umbrella idea. Luckily I live on a slow driving street because he has started standing by the road hissing at passing...
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    My Gander is a Bully.

    I will do that! Will it make him back off visitors and kids too, or just me? It's the other people who he really goes after. I am still looking for a female for him...will that cause him to act better or worse???
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    My Gander is a Bully.

    I have one Embden gander. He's started chasing my kids and any visitors that stop by. He even chases their car's down the driveway. He will start hissing and come running towards me as well but he always stops short of reaching me, turns and walks away. I must be at the top of the pecking order...
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    Homesteaders

    Oh, please talk more about free-ranging goats! I would love to have two milk goats. I have the perfect place inside a barn for their pen that is bordered by a large open pasture. It would cost a fortune to fence it in (plus I've heard there is no suck thing as a goat-proof fence, haha). There is...
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    Ducks not wanting to eat in cold temperatures??

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    Ducks not wanting to eat in cold temperatures??

    I should clarify. It's not that they are not eating at all, it's that they are eating very little compared to the amount I am used to seeing them eat. Normally they will come as soon as I throw the food out. Now it may be several hours after throwing food out, and even then they don't eat the...
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    Ducks not wanting to eat in cold temperatures??

    It's been getting real cold, windy, and snowy here in Ohio recently and I have increased the amount of feed I am giving to my nine muscovies and one embden goose. The problem is...they have zero interest in eating. On the very cold rainy days they have no problem. I just call them and they...
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    Homesteaders

    You are absolutely right. Proper maintenance is important. I am really lucky because the small family company that I purchased my wood insert from also does the annual cleaning. However, the owner showed me how to do it myself. It's really not too hard, just need the right size chimney sweeper...
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    Homesteaders

    Hi kentuckychicks I was overwhelmed too when I first started researching wood burning stoves. But really, it's not too bad. There are wood burning stoves, wood inserts, wood furnaces, and then there are the pellet stoves/furnaces of which I have no experience with. If you already have a...
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    Homesteaders

    I've looked in to taking a logging class. Actually, in my area they have one specifically geared toward women as well as an auto mechanics class. However...I am really into bartering. So this past year I made a deal with a couple (man & wife) who sell a lot of firewood as a side job. For every...
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    Homesteaders

    This is what I think as well. My home was built in the mid 1800's. It's your typical colonial farmhouse. At the time is was built there was a traditional fireplace in the main first floor room, a wood cookstove in the kitchen, and little coal pot-bellied stoves in each of the three second story...
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    Homesteaders

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    Preventing frostbite on ducks

    Wow. I never said, implied, or even assumed that you personally don't understand farm life. I was simple making a statement because that is how it is in MY life. And I made the comment about my grandmother not thinking of her ducks as children...not you. Please, don't take that so personally. I...
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    Homesteaders

    Hello fellow homesteaders! I thought I would share some pics. We had our first snow of the season here. Approximately 3 inches and the temps are not going above 30 (F) or so. I spent several months over the summer splitting and stacking wood in preparation for the winter. This is my first full...
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    Preventing frostbite on ducks

    This pond side of my property has a large fencing running around it. On a side note...my grandparents lived in this home for 49 years and had about a dozen ducks and several geese at any given time. These were mostly mallards who would stop by, realize that she threw corn out to them once...
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