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  1. nightshade

    Heritage turkeys, anyone?

    :P not having to incubate them in a bater is a big plus if you ask me. When we get ours I am already lined up that when I have little ones the neighbor is going to get some off me. He buys 15-25 butcher turkeys every year and said he mid as well get from me, rightnext door then ordering from the...
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    Heritage turkeys, anyone?

    I would not have passed them up either! ;)
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    Heritage turkeys, anyone?

    ooo I love the color of Bourbon Reds! but we are going to get Midget Whites to raise next year. I have to get my coops set up first....:/
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    Found some 5 gallon, food grade, square water jugs.........

    we got some a few years ago from the local dog food plant. They held gravy. Cleaned them out really good and we use one at the cabin for water and the rest we use to haul water around the farm with for the animals. Ours have a spot in the middle of the lid to drill out and put a hose bib in...
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    Heres one, RECYCLE all the old hand use kitchen utensils.

    Amish sales I just passed one up for a little over $100. I am really regretting that one already. :/
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    corn sheller & grinder

    try asking on your local craigslist and freecycles. That is what I did and had a lady that was nice enough to GIVE me a working antique corn sheller. It needed to be put on a stand, I screwed it to a saw horse. It works great, and is just what I was looking for. I use it to shell whole corn for...
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    Need suggestions for using white 55 gallon drums with lids.

    ones with hydrogen peroxide can probably be cleaned out but I personally would not use ones that had acid in.
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    Building An In-The-Ground Food Storage

    Hi I am going with the concrete block type root cellar at the new farm. I used a contractors block estimator program to figure out how many block I would need for the 10x10 root cellar that I want. Then called a local block plant ( which is litterly less then 3 miles from our current home...
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    Need suggestions for using white 55 gallon drums with lids.

    agreed... but detergent and teat dip/ iodine should not cause any concerns. I would just wash them well before using them for water collection. This is for watering plants not drinking or watering livestock with. Your biggest concern when not buying food grade barrels is did it hold a petroleum...
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    Has anyone here seen the latest prediction from Gerald Celente??

    agreed... which reminds me I wonder if hubby did buy the reloading stuff he was looking at at that auction a few weeks ago?
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    Need suggestions for using white 55 gallon drums with lids.

    clean them out and use them for rain barrels, Hobby farms last month had a plan for a lamb warming shack made out of half a 55 gal plastic drum. If they have the ends on them cut them in half length wise and use them for water troughs or if they don't have solid tops in them cut them in half...
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    Do you size your eggs for sale?

    I sell mine in mixed dozens, they are mixed sizes of med to x-large and all different colors. Some times I do have people that request only one color, like just brown or just white. And I have even had fokes who have boughten a mixed dozen knowing what was in it just to call me wanting return...
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    Talk to me about gray water please

    I learned to swim in the creek behind my house. Never liked swimming in public or private swimming pools, I don't like the chlorine smell it leaves me with for days even after I wash my hair ect. Also I use my water from my duck pond to irrigate my blueberries. And frankly I can not imagine...
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    Uses for prescription containers?

    I use mine for seeds, sewing needles, loose change in the car and 22 shells in your coat pocket. I am sure that there are tons more things that they can be used for though. I like the fishing lures idea. There is nothing worse then reaching in for one spinner and getting the whole box full. I...
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    Pennsylvania

    :frow Columbia County too... Summer Hill now but moving to Jonestown in the Summer. Will still be in Columbia County though.
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    Canning green beans with new potatoes

    I too think they would be fine together as if you were only doing one.
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    Baby Dresser

    That's great! I mod-poged old tractor ads on my son's dresser. He is big into tractors. It is so much cooler then if we had just bought him a new dresser and it used an old dresser that otherwise would have ended up under stuff in the garage for all time probably.
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    TAX RETURNS!

    we will be sinking most if not all we get back into moving and stuff for the new farm. Since we are starting from scratch we will need everything that we can not take with us. Fence, building supplies for the new coops and barn. A wood cook stove is on the top of my list I have wanted one for...
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    Has anyone installed a do it yourself cheap geothermal system?

    okay that is a way bigger unit then you need! you need to find out how big your house is by square footage and get a unit sized for your house not just what you think you will need. The average home uses a 4-5 gal a minute rate on an open loop system.
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    Has anyone installed a do it yourself cheap geothermal system?

    To get started you might want to look at this website for some one in your area WaterFurnace.com. That is the brand of geo thermal heat pump our company has installed for 22 years. Now lets try to do some explaining don't mind my typing please. Their are two different types of loops for...
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