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There is a high chance that my baby will be allergic to plastic and latex. I can use cloth diapers for him, but what do you do for plastic pants if they can't wear them? No velcro, no coated cloth shields, no disposable diapers at all. Non-synthetic, non-wool fibers only.

I need some Bantam Hens, laying age or close to. Need about half a dozen. I need them for egg production, so I need breeds that are reasonably good layers - Dutch, Sumatra, Cochin, d'Uccle, d'Anvers, Wyandotte, etc. One roo would also help so I can hatch some more.

So Kevin brought in 10 duck eggs yesterday. There isn't any place in the duck pen where they have shade all day, and we haven't been able to build nestboxes yet, so they did the best they could where they laid their eggs. We cracked one open last night, and the egg was partially cooked. Had a...

The Great Goat Roundup "Meh..." "Oh, that's right, laugh at me. Mock me." I sighed, kicking the dirt and sending up a puff of dust into the muggy morning air. It was way to hot to be chasing a half-grown goat around the farm, but after more than a half hour of chasing the same one I...

About a week ago one of the goats that roams wild on the property kidded. Twins, very tiny since they have Nigerian Dwarf blood. A few days later, our very skinny looking Pixie dropped two light brown and white babies, both bucklings (we'll have to wether them before they are old enough to miss...

OK, we can ship the laptop, but not the stock trailer. :P Can provide pics of either item if anyone is interested. Large T&R Stock Trailer 24 ft, two center gates, escape doors on middle and front compartments. Storage in front. Wood decking has some damage but is solid, and covered with...

A herd of wild goats roams the property here. When we got here, I remarked that one of them looked pregnant. The owner said, "Oh, you mean the black one?" I said, "No, a white and brown doe." He replied, "Oh, maybe. Have you seen that black one? She looks like she is about to drop twins any day...

So we are out here in yuppieville - where "ranches" and "homesteads" don't ever have cows or chickens, and where most of them don't even have a garden. A few acres and a stone "cottage" (translate to "mansion") with a restrictive HOA is their idea of paradise. There are still a few plots of...

Some of the members from church swarmed into our house today, and packed everything that didn't move, except a few dirty dishes and some things that I stood over and begged them not to touch. I'd have preferred the help more spread out so I could supervise better, but they came when they were...

My husband picked up our dog on his way home from Texas several days ago. We paid a fair amount for her, she is a rare old time breed, and we need her for foundation breeding stock for our farm. Turns out, she came in absolutely infested with ticks, fleas, etc. She has more than one kind of...

http://www.saveourskills.com/grocery-bill-double-2011?t=Why+Your+Grocery+Bill+Will+Double+in+2011+and+What+You+Can+Do+About+It This is pretty good.

We homeschooled our kids for many years. The last year and a half, they've been enrolled in K-12. That won't be available in the area we are moving to, so we need to start over. Of course, we gave away all of our homeschool supplies, just about two weeks before we discovered that K-12 wasn't...

Well, I got food poisoning that nearly kicked my butt over the weekend. I found some herbs that really helped - the symptoms of e-Coli and Salmonella are pretty much the same, and the herbal treatment is the same. Whichever it was, I was able to keep the symptoms to something less than total...

Ok, I'm really having trouble breathing. Not sure what is in the air that is causing this, but it is bad enough that any deep breath causes me to cough and catches all across my lungs. It does not feel like a cold or flu. Thing is, I'm pregnant, and the pregnancy is pretty tenuous, so I have to...

Ok, so what can you use for laundry if you can't tolerate detergents at all?

I think I miscarried again about three days ago. I also think I am still pregnant. It is unusual, but not unheard of, to get pregnant with more than one baby, and miscarry one, but not the other (my mother did this, and so did her mother, and several friends of mine). I KNOW I ovulated more...

So we ordered a batch of 30 assorted Bantam Cochins from a hatchery which shall remain nameless. We started feeding them a natural feed mix, and found that some of them just would not eat a variety of foods - they'd stick solely to the mash. So we lost a few simply because they would not take...

I don't know if any of you have heard of this: http://www.bensoninstitute.org/ This site is the Benson Institute. It was created from knowledge and practices promoted by Ezra Taft Benson - one time Secretary of Agriculture and one of the Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...

I'm TIRED of buying Lactase Enzyme just to be able to handle goat milk. I need the milk, it really helped to reduce the amount of supplements I have to take (I have malabsorption due to Crohn's Disease). Yogurt is partially helpful, but not completely. I still have to use Lactase with yogurt...

Looking for cheap old farmhouse with 5 acres or more, no livestock restrictions, and a well. I have Crohn's (so do two of my kids), and have specific chemical sensitivities, so can't do a mobile home or newer home, and cannot handle city water. Fixer upper is fine, if structurally sound...