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I'm low on freezer space and full on cucuzza gourds. Has anyone here tried dehydrating them or know of any reason why not to?

I was wondering if anyone here had dealt with cae in their dairy herd. I suspect one of my does that has a hard place in her udder has it, but Im not sure what to look for. Her udder is hard in the center and soft around it. Not overly full. Not hot. Very little milk.

Ok so the man I sold some baby rabbits too didn't seem to believe that they were really new zealand white/Californian / new zealand red crosses like i said. I even showed him the buck(new zealand red) and does (new zealand white/ Californian crosses). I really couldn't blame him though the...

Okay so I have this thermostat. I need to know how to wire it 110 to run a lightbulb for a brooder. I have basic wiring skills and know how NOT to get electrocuted! LOL Ive done this before with other salvaged thermostats, but I dont have a clue how to wire this one. I was hoping someone...

Okay so I have a plywood cabinet style incubator that we made last year. Do I need to seal it with waterproofer due to the humidity? I already have some Thompson's water seal multisurface waterproofer and some wolmans raincoat water repellant. Will one of these work? I'm worried about how...

So tomorrow morning I'm going to go look at some turkeys I found on CL. They're $20 each, and about 7 months old. The guy said they were all hens. Well at that age if I remember right they ALL look like hens, so, anyway, I need some pointers to help make sure the one I pick is actually a hen...

I thought I'd start a whole new journal since I am going to be kinda restarting my SS attempts. I am basically starting over. As of right now I have a milk goat that needs bred, two chickens and a pair of ducks. I got rid of everything else. This time I want to keep it small and only to a few...

my garden, the farmers market, and a farm stand have all failed up have any veggies in canning amounts! I still want to try to can something, but I have no idea what to try. I saw someone had mentioned (was it Free?) homemade pork and beans in another post... And broth in another..... So any...

Okay, so this year I have had to do a heavy deworming on a mini we got out of poor conditions. I also have to routinely deworm my goats and such. It got me thinking. I know there are herbal dewormers but I know nothing about them! So in a SHTF situation how would we keep the worms at bay...

Okay so I put plenty of compost and rabbit manure in my garden and everything is doing great and growing big and healthy EXCEPT my tomatoes are growing curly balled leaves and spirally branches. They are planted with compost I made myself from old horse manure and kitchen scraps. I dont...

DS is in the fourth grade and dyslexic. When we pulled him out of school he was making straight F's in every subject. The teachers excuse was that he wasn't trying. He would cry when he had to go to school and it was just not going good at all. So the other day I got the results of the kids...

I want to start a heritage farm! The only problem is that I can't convince dh. It would require moving back to our old place which we are supposed to do anyway. I would probably get rid of the chickens I have now and get some heritage breeds, maybe a few heritage breed geese(do sebastapools...

I absolutely HATE flies. We are being overrun with flies. They are in the sheeps barn like crazy. We put in all new bedding and removed all the poop, but they are still around and coming in the house with all the warm weather we have had lately. I dont at the moment have the money to order...

Will the stiff dog wire brushes work for carding? What do you use for carding if you don't own actual carders?

and when I got them out of the canner 2 of them were really short on liquid. One only had 3/4 of the liquid and the other was just lower. I followed the instructions and filled them properly and left an inch headspace. Now on the one there are potatoes almost completely out of the liquid. Is...

I just picked up a 20 lb bag of red taters for $4.99. We will never eat all of them before they go bad. Has anyone canned potatoes and how did they turn out? I am eager to try out my canner however my canning book has disappeared! Once canned what can they be used for? Roasts? I have never...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110227/ap_on_bi_ge/us_growing_fuel We'll probably never hear anything else from this again. It'll disappear for one reason or another. Oh well, it probably causes cancer or something anyway. :/ Yes, I'm in one of those moods.

I know that you have to turn in a homeschooling intent paper and sign a waver. But I don't know how/where to get their books and how to keep track of what they have done. I looked at several homeschooling sites, but there is so much out there it is confusing. I also read and was told that you...

So far I am not really sure what I am going to plant. Tomatoes, corn, turnips, lettuce, cukes, potatoes, squash, peas, beans and cabbage for sure. Probably some popcorn, flax, and wheat if I can find some. I think I am going to go with climbing tomatoes and a few unusual varieties this year...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth Japanese researchers will launch a project this year by Shingo Ito Shingo Ito Mon Jan 17, 5:44 am ET TOKYO (AFP) Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring...