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    Hot cereals poll🥣🍯🧀

    Steel-cut oats, buckwheat, teff. Each alone or in any combination. I like to add nuts, especially if it is a single grain. Sometimes with a little maple syrup or molasses but usually no sugar.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I will consider EV when the batteries are not made with Cobalt. And, since the next best alternative to cobalt in the batteries uses nickel, also when all the nickel in the vehicles driven in the US is mined in the US. My info about the devastation of cobalt production is not from information...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Well worth doing. It can be more effective than saving large amounts sporadically. Especially if you don't spend large chunks of money very often. There is a difference between that store and the others besides price. It might be location. Two minutes is not much time but if it is two minutes...
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    Winter Water System for 100 Chickens in -40 with Wind Chill

    A 250 gallon tank would be expensive to circulate and, especially, to heat. And ugly to thaw out if you lost power and it did freeze. But why the 250 gallon tank? My friends have a five gallon system with insulated pvc pipes to horizontal nipples for 30 or so chickens. A small submersible...
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    Can I feed weevils to my chickens?

    I would feed them. If there are very many and you store any grains around your homeplace then I might take part of them at a time. My chickens have gorged on various kinds of insects and insect larvae without problems so I wouldn't worry about that. But I would rather not have grain weevils...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    My grandma used to say "the hurrieder I go, the behinder I get" I think I like your version better.
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    Nutrient deficiency I can’t figure out

    I found a book that has chapters on toxins. Here is a link to the book. It covered nutrient toxicity as well as several other categories. The only entry I noticed while skimming through that part of the book that talked about feather loss was parsley, ammi majus. Both evidently cause...
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    Nutrient deficiency I can’t figure out

    More likely, they are doing it because they have enough calcium. That feed seems very reputable. Have you thought about another option besides lacking a nutrient? Toxicity can have similar symptoms. I don't need the answers to the following questions; they are an attempt to spark ideas in a...
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    Do you read to your chickens?

    Not for long because they tried too hard to eat the words. I switched to audio books around them.
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    We've thought of building an up north place on the back 40. My brother's farm has a lake back there on his. Mine has a view. We would each get nearly all the benefits of an up north place without fighting any traffic or dealing with upkeep from a distance. Or needing to find someone to do the...
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    Anyone trained their dog to stay away from chickens like this?

    Be aware that you may have taught the dog to avoid that hen in that location. Maybe, if you have taught a lot of similar things in many locations, he can generalize but most likely, you have not taught the dog to leave any/all your chickens alone wherever and whenever they are. For what it is...
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    Fall/winter feed

    Quite a few of us do this... beef and/or fish we caught. Well, the beef may not be as high quality as you can get but we do the best we can
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    Heat lamp alternatives needed.

    Wool hens are good alternatives to heat lamps. A wool hen is basically an insulated box on its side (so there is a roof and an open side) with strips of fabric hanging down from the ceiling. I used strips from an old wool shawl. It took a bit of experimenting to get a width/thickness of strips...
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    Chickens addicted to cat food! Will a cat door keep them out?

    Fresh lean beef is 70 to 80 percent moisture. Sometimes chicken feed has beef or pork. When it does, it is dried to about 15% moisture - then it is about 60 percent protein. Soybean oil meal at about the same moisture level as the dried beef, as it is in chicken feed, is about 45 to 50 percent...
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    Will a dog in my back yard discourage a fox?

    Urban/suburban foxes are so used to dogs that dog scent alone won't deter them and they can often tell how much threat a given dog is to them. A good guard dog would deter them, many sorts of pet dogs wouldn't. Rural foxes are likely to be more cautious about dogs. What would you do with a fox...
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    Trying to get an idea of how many out there do free range vs chicken runs/enclosed.

    Mine free ranged unsupervised quite often. I saw hawks in the distance all the time. Then one attacked. I happened to be out near the chickens at the time. I was shocked at how fast (and loud) it was. The chickens were in the woods at the time. The hawk missed. I think only because it went for...
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    Dead Birch Tree (Widow Maker) Falling Down - Need Suggestions

    Yep, the high air flow is only part of why rocket stoves work.
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    Does your recipe have alum? For helping keep the green beans crisper.
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    Dead Birch Tree (Widow Maker) Falling Down - Need Suggestions

    Punky wood burns like peat or buffalo pies burn... it burns if it is dry to start with or if it is put in a fire that is kept hot enough to evaporate the moisture fast enough that the fire doesn't go out. It burns cleanly if the fire is kept hot enough to fully combust the fuel. Then all that is...
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    Dead Birch Tree (Widow Maker) Falling Down - Need Suggestions

    If you still want to burn it if you could do it cleanly - a rocket stove would probably do it without petroleum to help. I built one with a dozen or so cement blocks lined with fire bricks to make maple syrup. The fire bricks are expensive and not necessary for short term use. In the long term...
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