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Do you have a county fair? Look for the auction dates and buy from the 4H kids. You can get it there, they'll give you the live weight so you know what your paying as you bid on the per lbs price. Once you secure a winning bid, then you go tell them if you want it live or if you want it...

I think before anybody things about withdrawing from the Union, they better take a hard look at the finances. First off how much money does your state get from the Feds for programs? And are those programs that your state wants to continue to have in place? If so where's that money coming...

Is exactly why I put The key word being if. I was just outlining where Id guide someone if they asked. The rest is up to you, but I feel those are essentials. I'm with Barred on this one, its just brainstorming session.

If I was unarmed and wanted firearms Id start with a 12 gauge with both a smooth barrel and a rifled barrel. Many times you can get a package deal and get both barrels when you buy the gun. Much cheaper than buying them separately. The smooth barrel is good for small game, birds (both...

I don't get that much snow. We get our share of it, but not enough to pile up to insulate with. Im familiar with snow huts and have slept in them I know snows a great insulator. My problem is there are plenty of days with a couple of inches on the ground and we've got standing water that's...

I'm designing a chicken coop and want to bounce this off some of you folks who have WAAAY more knowledge about this than I do. Im trying to get away from running electricity out to the coop. I'm afraid of heat lamps shorting out and causing a fire. I'm trying to keep the chickens a bit warm...

We made our own baby food here. We steamed some of the veggies and cooked down many of the fruits. Then puree them in the food processor, and into ice cube trays. Once frozen we'd put them in ziplock bags and label the bags with what they were. Its really that simple. Each ice cube of food...

Couple of things I think that are being missed here. One other thing to consider are the land rotations so the land has time to recooperate and be able to maintain what you've turned out to pasture on it. That's added land that you have to provide or supplimenting your animals to meet their...

It was just a passing comment they made. The showed his tank and how he had drains in the floor of the pig pen that were piped and how he'd piped his house toilets to all go into the methane generator. Then they showed how he converted his stove to methane and started cooking with that...

Are they worth it? I saw one mentioned by a guy who was on Doomsday Preppers and it got me thinking. He had hogs, chickens and human waste going into a tank and was heating his house (granted it was Texas) and cooking with it. His set up was a closed tank that was underground that was plumbed...

I guess it depends on how far folks want to take it. Is it a fad to be a localvore or whatever that term is? Heck been doing that for years buying at the farmers markets. I hunt and process our own, and what I don't get there I buy at the fair from the 4H kids. So whats that make me? :cool...

Its not about being unethical its about survival. My brothers had to do this. His BK lawyer told him to do that. Save the mortage payment that he was struggling to make to use it to secure his car so he could get to work, and use the rest to build up a security deposit. Why throw good...

I'm glad its not just me that thinks this way. When your credits blown of out of the water, you cut your losses and circle the wagons. Until then your going to be under assault and unable to defend yourself. Your aboslutely right you go through bankruptcy and rebuild where you can. I...

For starters one of the people the story was about was talking about not caring if they took the car or ate dog food because they'd fight to keep the house. Seriously? Your unable to feed your children properly because your worried about the house? What good is your own room if you go to bed...

What did you put up that got it flagged? Can you cut/paste what you put? Im curious why it got flagged.

They might pick at the veggies, hard to say. If you wanted to sort that out go ahead. Once bones are heated they are prone to shattering and splintering which can do damage to your dog's digestive system. If fed raw they are fine and will pass without issue. If it was me Id pull out the...

Why I love this site and its sister sites. I never would have known that website existed.

My first guess would be diet. Think of all the "treats" and other things that people who have a pet pig would feed it. I mean how many people have obese dogs and cats? Then take an animal thats bred to carry some extra body fat and you give it one of those folks and its going to swell up like...

So is that a common practice then breeding a meat buck to a dairy doe? And the pot bellied pigs are coming....eventually. Want to do some research on them before I pull the trigger but Ive seen enough of them to think it would definately be a good meal.

Had an idea and wanted to float it out there...mind you I've never done it but sometimes I have a hair brained idea thats actually worth something. Anywway....was wondering about dairy goats. They have to have delivered in order to produce milk so your breeding yearly. Well if you have a...