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    Cleaning the Coop--do you use anything extra??

    I really wouldn't suggest using any additive to guinea pig bedding. Food grade DE is OK, but even then, you're not supposed to inhale the dust. Guinea pig noses are *right* in the litter all the time. I would think that they'd be inhaling DE dust all the time. I have three guinea pigs in a...
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    Lea my pregnant horse-Update:she foaled

    Quote: Well, that's never a good sign. The phone being out of service I mean. So as of right now she's three days over due? You may have as long as another two weeks of waiting. Depends on what her previous pregnancies were like. You only have one date for breeding? Most stallions service the...
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    white wash recipe

    Thank you for posting the link. I Had been trying to figure out whether the DE would harm the earthworms in my manure pile, but it seems as if it shouldn't be *that* much of a problem. Looks to be good stuff.
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    Lea my pregnant horse-Update:she foaled

    Quote: Well, you can own a mare and never have to clean a sheath, and you can CERTAINLY own a mare and never breed her. Or, you can own a gelding and pay someone else $20 to clean a sheath. I used to spend my summers as a teenager going from barn to barn braiding manes, grooming tails, and...
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    Lea my pregnant horse-Update:she foaled

    She does not look bigger than normal at all in that picture. Rather than looking at the belly to see if the baby's moved up into the canal, check her hips and the dock of her tail. On some mares the dock of the tail will become more pronounced a week before birth, and on older mares you'll...
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    Lea my pregnant horse-Update:she foaled

    If she's done this a number of times before and she's not elderly, then really, I wouldn't worry about being there for the birth. I know people *want* to see the birth, but some horses just aren't going to let you. Yes, things can go terribly wrong in a delivery. Yes, you need to check the...
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    Breeds of chickens your ancestors had?

    Well, this is sort of a hard one to answer. My grandfather was an Armenian refugee from Persia. They had chickens in his village in NW Iran, but I have no idea what kind they were. During the Depression he brought home 40 chickens (I think leghorns and RIR) to my grandmother with great pride...
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    New member, new coop

    Quote: Looks to me as if he's got stationary screens on the openings with hinged glass windows that swing out to the side. Nice coop!
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    Lea my pregnant horse-Update:she foaled

    Having "attended" more than 15 horse births, I'll offer up some unsolicited advice. Set up a baby monitor in the stall and don't visit. Sweating and pacing are the very early signs of labor. If you want to be there to make sure nothing goes wrong during delivery, then you may have to wait until...
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    **Electric skillet method-*Open for further questions-starting page 26

    I don't remember what the cord on an electric skillet looks like, or what gauge it is, so proceed with caution. However, we use a tabletop lamp dimmer to control the temperature of the under-tank heating pad in our snake's tank. They are very cheap and as long as you are monitoring the...
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    Please help

    click on the link. When the pdf reader opens up, look on the tool bar just above the white sheet of paper the plans are printed on. You'll see a magnifying glass there about in the center. Click on it. It will zoom in. I just did it on my adobe reader program and got very tight in with no...
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    How do I compost the poo

    I like having worms in the compost and other beetley things. But I am planning on sprinkling Diatomaceous Earth on the floor of the chicken coop to keep down mites. Am I correct in assuming that this will then kill off the worms? I'd rather have lice free chickens than wormy compost, all...
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    Drop Out floors on coops????

    Kelly I love your set up. You used the windows so well. I'm copying it! I do have a question though, as scale is hard to tell in the photos. How deep is your shed/coop? And do you mostly access the rest of the floor through the swing out window? My husband's agreed: This is the one he'll help...
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    Finally finished my small coop (3 hens)

    Ahhhh. I missed that on the door. Thank you so much. This shouldn't be rocket science, building a coop, but I find myself laying boards out over and over again trying to get the arrangement right.
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    Compost and DE

    An organic butcher is one who sells organic meats and "all-natural", "No added hormones, antibiotics, humanely slaughtered" meats. High end stuff. Very pricey.
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