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    MissPrissy, butter recipe

    most dairy farms are contracted to sell to a specific buyer. Not to mention the liability issues if they were to sell to the public and someone got sick, even if it wasn't the farmers fault.
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    Homemade Yogurt **Updated** Cheese and Buttermilk

    I am going to try making it with my kids. My daughter pictured with me is my biggest yogurt eater. I have been doing the same thing with my kids the last few years. I know that canning your own food is becoming a lost art, but I think it is a good traditions for us to pass down. When I was a...
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    I am confused about medicated starter.

    I never use medicated food and might lose one or two chicks per 100 chicks, but it is likely that I would have lost them even on the medicated feed. Unless you are raising thousands of chicks I would not buy it. If you have kids and have taken them to the doctor in the recent years you have...
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    Feed Recipe - Not Sure How Much Of What...

    here is a good place to start http://www.lionsgrip.com/recipes.html It does a good job breaking it down for you. I crack my own corn and add that in on a one to one ratio to the commercial feed as a cost saving, but it also reduces the protein level doing so unless you add a poultry concentrate...
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    WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

    Just a suggestion, but what about having the person getting the goods pay the postage via paypal in advance. That way you know you will not be out the postage if they don't send something back. I know it seems redundant to send them postage and them send postage back, but you would see who is...
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    Hello from Michigan

    My name is Jeremy. I live near Saginaw MI. We have been Raising Chickens, turkeys, ducks, quail, and peacocks for three years now. We just had 11 new additions to the chickens out of the incubator this week.
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    What eats JUST the head?

    I agree with it being an owl. Last summer I lost a lot of birds to them. I was letting my chickens free range. I found that it always struck between 5am and 10am. So I started keeping them locked in the netted pen until noon before letting them free range and then I didn't have any more problems.
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