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My story: I only have a seasonal problem. Obviously it is very hot in my area over the summer and no animal in their right mind would stay in my attic when I could probably bake a dish up there. But in the winter, thats another story. I did have a problem a while back where I knew something...

I have one cornish bantam hen and one white rock hen. A friend has a single white cornish rooster. I can't remember what the combination has to be to get the genetics right to create a cornish rock cross. I know I won't get a real cornish rock, regardless, but seeings as my friend doesn't...

Okay, I don't have stock in the company that produces this slow cooker, but I thought I'd share it with y'all. I went on amazon and I don't normally buy just anything I see, but rather search for the item I'm thinking/looking for and get the best deal, but I happened to see this item and read...

I am aware that a wood stove allows for more types of woods than a fireplace, due to it being a closed system. I grew up with a fireplace and when newly married and short on funds put in a boxwood stove and discovered, what I had always read to be true.....stoves are much better to have. Well...

I've read in story books and here and there in self-sufficient type magazines, about banking the embers, ash or whatever to have a long burn time and being able to wake up and still have embers to work with, but not sure what banking is. I did a search on the website, but nothing came up. It...

So ya'll all know that my yard is still green (not for long) and that I have about 365 days of growing due to my location. Well, its just about to freezing temp now and it will get below freezing within the next few hours. I already have ice hanging from the trees and some on the stairs where...

Well the oldest child I had often ran to her room to study alone and then told me she had done a day of school, while I was busy with the farm, work or her younger sisters. She'd turn in the tests in subjects she liked and avoided subjects she was poor in, until she fell very far behind and...

I do not know the people that own this farm. Indeed, I believe they are in FL and I'm in Louisiana, but I have ordered their vaccuum on amazon and I feel it has saved me lots of money and time. My doe is skittish and we do have to catch her before we milk her, but its getting easier on our...

My poor doe needing my assistance day before yesterday to deliver a stillbirth and I have been milking her since yesterday. I have a milk vaccum, on order (which I might replace with a pump), but I'm not a spring chicken and can't run around the goat pen and risk my life and orthopedic safety...

I work nights on Friday and Saturday only, so I have more time at home. Well, its Monday and time for me to do a good job. So I find one of my 2 guinea hens hobbling. She was able to reach the feed I put, but I can tell she isn't right. I have text my 2 older kids to find out if something...

I'd rather not speak of how the smell/taste got in the pecans, but I have some shelled pecans and I consider them too valueable to throw to the chickens, unless I first attempt to salvage them. I am now soaking them in water and baking soda and hoping to make candy later today. Okay.....thats...

I have some chores to tend to and I plan on doing it very soon. The results will be the processing of about 15 small farm animals, over half of which are over a year old.....some over 3 years old, namely the chickens. I plan on killing 5 roosters and about 5 hens....none of which are what...

I wanted something to kill a sweet-tooth, I was suffering from a few days ago and was thinking about cake....chocolate cake, that is. Guess I was full of inspiration because I decided to just put my basic scratch pancake recipe together, using an egg, vanilla, cup of self-rising flour and milk...

One of my local contacts have just messaged me with a question of did I want some peachicks. Apparently a man in a nearby parish has suffered cardiac arrest ( I assume he has been resusitated and is in the hospital), and all his poultry needs to move out fast. Well, I have had them before and...

Today I got a text from a new friend, who is a 25 year old school teacher, expecting her first child. Wanted to know if I knew anyone who would want a muscovy drake. Well, I have a cousin who has been asking for one for years...to eat. So I'm trying to put them together, but while I was...

Mawmaw Callais' Squash Cake Recipe about 4 or 5 medium sized squash (color doesn't matter) deseeded and peeled a can of evaporated milk 1 1/2 cup of white sugar a kitchen spoon of flour (its probably anywhere from 1/2 cup to 2/3's cup) 1 tsp of baking soda 5 eggs 1 tsp vanilla Preheat oven to...

I have a few questions on verticle gardening....mainly the distance to plant certain seeds, which I will be looking up....or DH will look it up and I can post, but I just did a search on the topic and it seemed no one had started a topic on the subject. I'm convinced that its a smart, easy way...

Well, so much can get us discouraged. When our cup is half full its also half empty and its easy to look more at one than the other. I was a bit discouraged, briefly yesterday. I was thinking how DH's heart condition might severly slow down my barn's roof and how I've had to tap into my...

My friends....help me. Really. Some of you know that I have an orchard to deal with and no time, but at the same time I hate to see my parents hard work, investments and time go to waste. Well, I was inspired to try my hand at marmalade. I found a few recipes and seeings as it was for long...

Yesterday my 9 year old finished the 2nd grade and I ordered her 3rd grade books. I wanted to get that done in September, but life said,"NO!" DH had a heart attack. Daddy broke his hip and pelvis. And a few other issues, I won't even mention, which all took my time. I'm not really as late...