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    Need remedy for livestock lice

    wouldn't it be simple enough to simply give them ivermectin? Just catch each chicken, put a drop in their mouth, and let them go. No more lice.
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    All I want for Christmas is ....

    I would LOVE for someone to find me a "Back To Basics" Reader's Digest book at a yard sale. I would also love to have some empty wine bottles and corks to make homemade wines. Used (aka trash) bottles are fine because I can boil them to sterilize. A few five gallon buckets with lids...
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    is it really cost effective...

    You have to look at those first birds you bought as seed. They are not to simply eat. They are to reproduce, so you can eat the offspring. You start with a seed of a flock which grows, and then you eat the harvest. Just be sure to buy a few bantam hens to brood the eggs next summer. The...
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    What music are you listening too?

    I listen to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, etc. I have pandora on the computer most of the time, and my "station" features those type of artists.
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    Can I reuse these jar seals if they weren't really used for canning?

    My Grandma always reused all the lids after boiling them in some water with baking soda. I have done the same thing. You are not "supposed" to do that, but it never hurt anyone here. And now I am a grandma, so our family has done it for many years.
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    Cooked and ate at home. That saves at lest twenty or thirty dollars. Shopped discounts. I got Kraft Delux Mac/Cheese dinners for thirty cents each on clearance. Reg price was $2.79. I bought all they had on the shelf to save for later. Washed Comforters myself instead of dry cleaning them...
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    On average, what do you spend on feed every month?

    I spend almost two hundred dollars a month just feeding the dogs. I buy 50lbs of food a week from my vet for them. Chickens get laying mash and cracked corn about thirty dollars a month or so. Rabbits get alfalfa and pellets about twenty dollars a month or so. Goats get cracked corn, oats and...
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    Where do you buy your rennet?

    I just use junket.
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    Vet Trip for heart worm Rx. Anyother ss way to deal with heart worms?

    Its a tenth of a cc for every ten pounds of dog if you use the one percent cattle/swine ivermectin. If you use horse wormer paste it would be a bit less because that is stronger.
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    Starting seeds is going to be the death of me.

    I started my tomatoes and peppers inside. I am just hoping to keep them alive long enough to put them out into the soil. They just aren't growing well in here.
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    Little House books

    I wanted to add, we tried a "button lamp" like the one Ma made in Long Winter. I used vaseline, but she used the axel grease from the wagon.
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    Little House books

    I'm a homeschool Mom. We read them over and over and over..... I learned so very much from Big Woods and Farmer Boy. Ma made everything. And when they moved Pa built their little house on the prairie out of logs drug from the creek area. It is such a wonderful collection of books. When the...
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