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    Broody Hen - 2 story coop - will chicks be safe?

    Thanks - I think I'll try closing the pop door on them for a couple days, then migrating them downstairs.
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    Broody Hen - 2 story coop - will chicks be safe?

    Thought I'd add a couple pictures to clarify the coop situation. :) This is the side that faces the house. The white part is the upstairs, the lovely unpainted plywood is the downstairs. Inside the "inner sanctum. When you open the access doors, the bucket nest box is to the left...
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    Broody Hen - 2 story coop - will chicks be safe?

    We just had a hen go broody a couple days ago and were thinking about picking up some chicks for her at our feed store's animal swap on Saturday. But as I was thinking about the logistics of our coop ( where to put another nest box, getting food and water at chick height, etc) I realized that I...
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    Ayden had an allergic reaction to the MMR vaccine

    Be sure to report it to VAERS. I'm sorry your little one is suffering. http://vaers.hhs.gov/index
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    Looking for insurance information for maternal costs.

    *expensive* at least in Maine when I was looking at it a while back. I second (third? fourth?) the suggestion to check into your state insurance. Often pregnant women and children qualify at much higher limits than others. I believe that in the state I'm in now (MI) there is only an income...
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    Writing a program... need your opinion

    Hmmmm... still a challenge to make the call. If the online option would allow searches across different users data (say, how's everyone else in this county doing for tomatoes this year, or whatnot) then storage on a server makes sense, and could be useful. Otherwise, I'd rather download the...
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    Writing a program... need your opinion

    depends - what sort of data are you storing? If I want to get at it anywhere, then I want it on my home machine. I don't get a wireless signal everywhere. If it's something I'd mostly be dealing with at home, then I might want it online.
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    Any other Cloth Diapering families?

    Quote: I don't know if I would say our EC experience was any more time consuming than changing and washing diapers, but then again, we didn't start from birth. I guess it could be harder if your baby has different caregivers - my husband and I cared for our son tag-team while we were in grad...
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    Any other Cloth Diapering families?

    We used cloth with our son, now almost 5. Kept it simple, prefolds with some flats (best for traveling IMO, since they dry the fastest) and Bummi's super whisper wrap covers. We used both Snappis and diaper pins to close. After poops were coming less frequently, I switched almost exclusively...
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    I need a new favorite author

    Quote: x 2! And let's not forget his outstanding Ender series
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    I need a new favorite author

    Based on "Love the Mercedes Lackey books", I recommend S.M. Sterling: Emberverse (post-apocalyptic pacific northwest; old religion and the Society for Creative Anachronism - fun!) Anne McCaffery: Pern (telepathic dragons) and Talent (telepathic people) series Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover...
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    A Complaint, but isn't it LEGAL???

    I would also print out the law and have it handy - sometimes local law enforcement doesn't actually know what the law is.
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    Making children accountable for chicken chores

    When I boarded my horse in a University co-op barn that had a lot of new students coming in (and then leaving) each semester, we had a pretty good routine. For each "chore session", there was a sheet that listed each individual job (hay in each stall, water each stall, grain, supplements, hay...
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    flour mill recomendations

    Quote: We have the family grain mill (for example, http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/family_grain_mills.aspx). We bought it because you can buy different heads to go with the same crank (flour mill, flaker, veggie processor, meat grinder) We only have the flour mill, currently. Although we...
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    im getting cackler geese!

    Quote: I don't know where people get the idea that pit bulls are vicious killers. Our sweet Alice was the gentlest dog I've ever met. Guess it's all about how they're raised, dogs and geese alike. (P.S. I do know where people get the idea that pit bulls are vicious killers. But some...
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