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I'm on my fourth batch of yogurt, and this one was my first flop. It just came out like thickened milk, not a good consistency at all. Ideas why this would be? I used a yogurt maker and followed the same general recipe as before. I didn't bring it to a full boil this time was the only...

I'm currently about 75 percent through reading Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris What an interesting book! I had heard it mentioned here on this forum and bought a 3.00 Kindle version yesterday, and can't put it down! I was wondering how many of you read this book and were influenced by it. I...

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/grd/2601200495.html I am looking to buy a mini nubian buckling, and this one is extremely close to me, like almost in my neighborhood. I have an appointment to look at another one on Sunday, but I like this one and it is about an HOUR and a HALF less of a...

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/listeria-outbreak-should-we-worry What do you all think? Are their tests for the milk itself that we can do to make sure things are safe periodically? Those of you that consume raw milk, what precautions do you take to avoid this? Or is this an...

With so much of our country currently burning, it has turned my thoughts to disaster preparedness at my own home, which is situated in the forest in the Pacific Northwest. While much of the year we have too much rain to worry about wildfire, there have historically been huge fires that wiped out...

I made my first yogurt in my yogurt-maker! It isn't bad! The texture came out thick enough, but a little clumpy, it reminds me a little bit of cottage cheese. The recipe had me boil the milk and suggested I use "pasturized" milk and I used raw goat milk.....but did I not stir well enough...

Okay, we have the hot date planned for Molly....she will be meeting up with her old lover, whom we sadly sold last year and broke her little goatie heart. But, because she produced such a fine little son, we are planning a repeat rendezvous with the same buck, and are plotting one of those...

So I've been milking Ginger and Molly twice a day since April, when the kids were weaned. They have been giving me around a gallon a day. Over the past month, they have slowly dropped down to giving me about a 1/2 gallon a day, give or take. At first I wasn't sure if the amount just dipped for...

I was thinking about making some candy but don't have any inspirations. I'm not a very experienced candy maker but I don't want to buy "junK' with preservatives and coloring and stuff in it, I'd rather learn to make more candy (which my family DEMANDS). Any fun ideas? I have tons of goat milk...

When beginning your journal, or if you already have one, to make it interesting, SS forum members have formulated some questions to get you started and keep our conversations interesting. This is the list, below. Your answers can be just added to your own thread, or you can answer them here...

about the county fair. I'd like to enter my rabbits at our county fair, but I don't understand how it works. As a hearing impaired person it is kind of hard to get information besides what you have online about entering, etc. How do these county fairs work? At ours, the barns are full of...

So Hubby was casting about for a forum to join......he is an opinionated cuss sometimes and got himself BANNED from his other forum. I will say, in his defense, that it was a forum about politics and you know how those things can go. In any event, he looked momentarily at THIS forum and...

So I originally ordered 15 muscovy about a year and a half ago, wanting to start a little meat breeding program. We ate the extra drakes and have a nice drake still, and he seems to do his job. The females however, have been slowly dying off. Today I went out and found my second-to-the-last...

I've heard some other rumblings on here about our 20 questions we answer when we begin our journals, and how they really don't address what we are interested in about each other. Can I propose a new 20 questions? I don't have 20, but I have suggestions.....things like this: What animals do...

I just got an awesome little dutch oven, cast iron, on sale. I would like to make things by campfire and also in or on the woodstove either during a power outage or just to save energy. Obviously in the summer we would be cooking outside. Anyone have any great recipes or tips for usage for me...

Pick a famous person and challenge the computer.....pretty amazing... www.akinator.mobi/

I almost put this under homemade products, because I have a lovely wood stanchion my hubby made me from the Fias Co Farms diagrams. It works awesome, so I don't want to replace it. It is just made of unfinished wood. I have a linoleum floor in my milk room and I milk indoors, in what is...

Sooooooooooo I sold some chickens and the buyer informed me my chickens had lice. She wasn't upset (she still got an excellent deal) but I had been dealing with some feather loss in my chickens for awhile so was glad to see a culprit. I have thought they molted a long time and certain ones would...

We have this cute little snake out front we are sure it is a garter snake. We have lots of them around here, it could be we are seeing several, but I think it is often the same one. We just got new baby chicks and their enclosure does have wee little ventilation holes and a snake could indeed...

We buy our hay just one bale at a time still (storage issues) and have noticed that the last three bales were all terrible despite coming from our favorite hay barns. And both barns have very little selection right now and higher prices. Is this just something about the weather this year or the...