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    Newbie alert

    this is a really awesome place to get info ... welcome! I'll be moving from the Valley in AZ to the White Mts in approx 4 weeks. Cant wait because I will be raising Alpaca's and chickens for starters. Once I get settled I want to do aquaponics. Anyone who knows anyone needing to board...
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    HOT!

    I've heard Florida and some parts of Texas are bad ... have never been to either State. When driving from California to Boston, I noticed somewhere around Indiana how humid the weather was getting. It was such a new and beautiful drive, I really never noticed until pulling into a town just...
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    HOT!

    really ... I was born and raised up and down the Coast of CA and was literally spoiled by the ocean breezes. Well, we moved to Boston one summer, arriving on the 4th of July and I wanted nothing more than to turn around and head back!!! I had never lived in Humidty and I know Boston isn't the...
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    HOT!

    It's not HOT til it's 108 ... thats when I hit the pool 24/7's. I'm okay til then but I will be honest and say I can't wait til my home in the Valley sells so I can be up North where it's a good 18 degrees cooler! I won't EVEN miss this heat!!!
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    Dead rooster

    I remember reading articles about chickens so I'd not kill any of them .. .seeing as I was in charge during the day! One article in particular talked about how chickens made good pets and how most people didn't realize this until getting some. That is so true ... I'd sit out on a chair and...
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    Dead rooster

    I'm so sorry for the loss of your Rooster. Like Marianne ... I cried at the loss of my first chicken. I work for a family who live on 4 acres, who were given some chicks as a house warming present almost a year ago. They were given some barrd rocks and when they were probly 2 months old...
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    Hello! Another city girl turns farmer

    Welcome ... where in LA are you able to have chickens!? The family I work for moved to 4 acres and started getting chickens almost a year ago and I am sooooooo addicted to them! I can't wait til my home sells here and I move up North to a home on a few acres. Who would have thot Chickens...
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    Aquaponics?

    makes me wish I was in Florida or even within a few hours drive ... wow! wouldn't an acre be nice but I will have to settle for maybe 500 SqFt, thanks so much for sharing!!!
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    Aquaponics?

    Awesome info ... thanks! I will save the youtube video and watch when needed ... he explained everything so I could understand!
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    Aquaponics?

    I am wanting to do aquaponics .... the only info I've read is online. Anyone here doing this and would like to share info? thanks!
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    Hand Spinning (Alpaca)

    thanks ... all I know so far, is ... once an Alpaca is shorn, the fleece from each Alpaca goes into a bag and is marked with the name of the Alpaca and in the Wt Mts where I will be, can be sold for approx $75.00 That fleece would need to be cleaned carded and I'm sure some other things (...
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    Creative minds needed!

    I like " stone of help" ... Ebenezer? hmmmmm Being that the land where my property is located used to be Native American owned, lots of sacred burial grounds and all, I'd love to even come up with a Native American word for healing, tranquil ... or how would they say stone of help? thanks...
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    Creative minds needed!

    Hopeful is a good word also to toss around and I really like the word Healing ... awesome, thanks!
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    Creative minds needed!

    Restoration was one my son thot of ... so, I'll write that one down also! thanks!
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    Creative minds needed!

    Not sure how to reply yet! will see if this works with all the suggestions ... Renewal was one word my father in law thot if ,,, Tranquility or Tranquil are words that I'd not thot of ... will write them down and play with them, thanks!!!
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