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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The diapers I bought are 100% Oeko-Tex Standard100 certified cotton. They will decompose in a standard compost pile and be safe for a vegetable garden. Or could safely be used as tinder after they wear out too much to use as diapers (usually after years of constant use) and then wear out too...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    The latest thing I am doing is helping dd do cloth diapers with my grandbabies. I ordered the diapers last week and they came today. Reducing garbage footprint is only a small part of why I've been encouraging this, though. Did you know diaper rash was very rare before the advent of the super...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Driving a vehicle that gets 15 miles per gallon can be frugal and environmentally responsible. She's 25ish years old, bought when we had 5 small children. It took less gas to drive her than the two cars we would have otherwise needed. Now that they are grown and gone, it costs less to drive her...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I drive about 30 miles per week when I am home. Several times a year, I visit friends or family. The nearest is about 200 miles away (3 hours drive), most are about 1,000 miles away (12 hours drive). I do those drives in one day. I make minimal stops. No restaurants or coffee shops. I stop for...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    What is the peak rate? We don't have off peak or night rate options. We have a flat rate of about $0.2 per kWh for all kWhs used per month plus various charges that we would pay anyway. It might be more fair to consider the gasoline price without the taxes that mostly pay for the roads...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I am ecstatic to hear this.
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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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