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    Update on GROUNDS Coffee Ground Bedding for your coop!

    In rainy Florida, I use an old idea. Deep litter, and deep bedding. But I have abundant leaf litter to make that possible.
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    Questions about NPIP program

    Technically, a voluntary Public/Private partnership involving no small amount of self-certification and a bit of the honor system, but yes, it worked extremely well.
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    Questions about NPIP program

    Its up to you. I am not a lawyer either, though I've worked with and for them for decades in various roles. I've also read the statues for the vast majority of States re: keeping livestock. This is the Opinion of a reasonably well read lay person, NOT legal advice. In my Opinion, most states...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    My wife (stays home, keeps things from falling apart around me) noticed he wasn't behaving right. When he wouldn't get up and waddle away from her as she approached, she knew something was wrong. Insisted I take care of it immediately. Good that she did.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Tom Turkey (not an original name, I know) broke his thigh bone yesterday. Had to leave work earlier than intended to put him out of his misery. He'd have bled out internally, otherwise. I think he jumped down from the fence and his bone couldn't take the strain of his weight. Otherwise in...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    My soil is so acidic it eats concrete. Very few plants do well near pH 5. When I get to 5.5 pH, most of my acid loving plants will do much better
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Hahahahahahahahhaaahaahaahaahahaahahhaahahahaha! no. I have set about 50 fence posts, unstrung a bunch of others, hung 330' of fencing. I should be able to accomplish more in a day, but there are so many competing priorities I can't focus on the fencing. Will get more erected this weekend...
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    You can ferment almost anything. Whether or not it benefits from fermentation is a complex and nuanced answer. The common coccidiostat used in US medicated feed (Amprolium) isn't anticipated to be affected by fermentation. Note, however, that if what you are fermenting, and how you are...
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    THANK YOU for finding this. I couldn't remember the right keywords.
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    Mine is going to look a bit more like this in concept: Only my main tanks are outside my greenhouse (which measures roughly 16' x 24', so a little bigger than the typical).
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    You are doing a single tank chop & flip, right?
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    That's not enough length for sufficient heat transfer. You will have very little geothermal effect there. Ground loops are often HUNDREDS of feet. The math is complicated. Very complicated actually - more complicated than when i did rocket science. The slower your water moves, and the...
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    There's a commercial garbage operation that composts the piles and lets chickens free range it. I'll find the links. It involves a LOT of assumptions, and you have to accept that your birds will be less productive than they potentially could be. Will benefit from choosing less "purpose built"...
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    Turning Trash Hauls Into Feed

    I'm looking into aquaponics. Its neither cheap nor easy. I'll be doing it - already have the totes (2) and have laid out the plumbing. Getting the water temps and pH into an acceptable range can be challenging, same with the nitrogen cycle. Local laws may impact which fish you can use as...
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    4'. The goats could jump it if they were sufficiently motivated. I have a fence stretching jig, plus the tractor. 25hp is plenty, once it's maneuvered into place.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Started putting up woven wire fencing around the pasture. About a $2k investment, but the goats kept breaking the electric. Had to be done. About 250' complete, About 1000' to go.
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    Corn, Wheat/Gluten Free DIY feed

    I feared that would be the case.
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    Topic of the Week - "Off-grid" Feeding - Homemade feeds, etc.

    Your local AG extension is probably a good place to get your water tested couple of basic additional tests Beyond pH and more importantly they can tell you what's likely to be a problem in your area, don't want to find out that your new acres are on an area that is just flooded with the...
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    Topic of the Week - "Off-grid" Feeding - Homemade feeds, etc.

    Cheap and easy to get the pH of your water if you're going to do the science may as well do it right
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    Topic of the Week - "Off-grid" Feeding - Homemade feeds, etc.

    Soaking helps with the tannins but you really need some heat process to deal with the lectins
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