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What do you find on your trail cameras? A chicken died, so I used it as bait. This crow gave me a laugh But the hawk got to business

Hey everyone. My dad gave this to me shortly before dying. He built staircases, so used this on some jobs. He wanted to show me how to use it but never got around to it. I honestly don't see myself really utilizing it as the most construction I do is shelving or small furniture (table...

So we have 400 sq ft of cyclone fenced run that all the ladies and dudes go into at night, then they can decide which coop to hang out in. My only issue with it is the height. I'm quite the average height (5' 9" and whatever) and since this run is only 6" high that means at any point where the...

One of the eggs hatched. Poor little guy/girl has a little issue with their left leg/foot though :( and I doubt there's anything I could do. But a baby duck is a baby duck :)

We have a few Pekings, both boys and girls, and about three weeks back one of the ladies had made a nest out in the thistle in their run (10k sq ft fenced in area) and though it pained us with worry we let her stay out there at night instead of forcing her into the protected run with all the...

so I've heard not to use 2,4-D over 90° (85° for arguments sake). Is that "don't use period over 90 because it's ineffective" or "don't use on your lawn over 90 because it'll kill any grass as well"? I'm planning to use it on thistle, curly dock, ... around the prairie, so grass isn't my...

I've never bought an ATV and I've ridden one maybe 10 times total, but I think getting one to use for my work would be good and reduce my leaning on my garden tractor so much, which would also allow me to at some point sell my rider and get a zero turn mower with a wider deck, which would also...

I asked this over on TEG but figured I'd ask it here too Looking for a mechanical electrical timer, like the one Orbit makes for hoses. Anyone know of one? I have a 550 gal water tank that feeds my 10 rows of potted trees via a large pump. I usually turn on a row or two for 20 min or so, but...

Anyone try mapping/inventory or planning out tree locations for your property via some mapping software on your phone or a tablet? Looking to see if there's something else out there for home/farm owners that isn't heavy into arboriculture with 95 points of interest to track per tree. I might...

Hey everyone, So I think the topic was touched on in the Mosquito..be gone... thread, but I thought a more specific thread would be helpful on the topic of bat houses. I have seen them up on poles and on barns but honestly never really looked into building/buying/posting a bat house until...

Figured I might as well start this and give myself something to update and post to over time So we moved to a 10 acre plot in mid 2018 with our 5 kids and a few chickens. My dream was wanting to start a tree farm to sell native deciduous species to local folks and a few environmental...

So I've never harvested and deboned a chicken or bird before. However, given my recent post in What did you do in the garden today? the time is nigh for me to be bagging up some guineas. I know I'm going to need some deboning shears, so what's your goto one for your kitchen and poultry...

I got a Stihl MS 171 when my father died. ****ty way to get a first chainsaw, but it happened right when I needed one. It hadn't been started in at least two years and it started right up :). It's good as a saw you would use to cut small branches (a trimmer so to speak) but it's got a small...

I was walking around our property yesterday and happened upon a deer skull that a coyote was enjoying. I'd like to clean it since I know my wife would like it. The last time I cleaned a skull was about 25 years ago (**** time flies :oops:. What the hell have I been doing with my life?) so I...

Warm day (40s) for winter yesterday and today so I took the opportunity to rake out a bunch of straw mixed with the chicken and duck poop from our fortified (cyclone fencing) small run inside our larger fenced in run (10k sq ft). Our cyclone run is actually two runs (1 = 100sq ft and another...

So last winter was tough. Lots and lots and lots of snow and in the spring the snowpack ended up pushing our driveway over into our lawn because there was just nowhere else to plow (I paid a guy to plow) the snow to. Anyways, I bought a snowblower (JD 826, made in 1986) to help deal with some...

Minnesota here. So I purchased a used snowblower at the end of last winter. It is a John Deere 826. It starts fine and runs and did work for a little while but by the end of winter when the blades hit snow it would greatly reduce spinning power and essentially not actually throw any snow. It...

We just got done fencing in a much larger area for our chickens, ducks & keets. To move from this To this: The keets can just fly over it, but they come back for treats. This was more about the chickens and ducks since they just ruin everything in a yard that has mulch.

So, it's getting into Autumn here in Minnesota. Leaves are falling, turkeys are running around and my neglected jalapeno, scotch bonnets and tomatoes are wilting. Soon enough the cold will come, snow will fly and then the season known as mud will begin again and with that will start the whole...

We have 13 chickens that are currently laying and another 10 that will be soon. Of those 13 we only get about 3-4 eggs a day because some asshat of a cluckler has gotten a taste for pecking the eggs in the past few months :( We tried some ceramic eggs to help, but that hasn't done anything and...