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Clean fill is clearly understood to be dirt/gravel/clay/rocks which is only good for filling swamps and low ground so buildings and parking lots can be built in those areas. It is the stuff they dig out from below the top soil when digging basements in subdivisions. It is NOT suitable for...

I have a large 6 burner gas/propane stove (I use propane). 36" wide. Stay away from as much electronic crap as you possibly can. Uses up electricity and when it fails its expensive to fix. Last year I had the famous locking oven happen as well. I was very lucky that it locked up before I got...

Yes, I am in Canada. The transport police do on occasion stop and check our pickups for colored gas. Big fine if someone uses it for on road vehicles. The tax free stuff is strictly for farm use. The fuel condtioners are designed to remove water caused by condensation which is the # one reason...

Two types of white gas. One is Naptha and the other is the stuff non- farm people get at the pumps. Farm folk use colored gas which is white gas with coloring in it. This gas is tax free but can only be used legally in off road vehicles such as tractors. We have to fill up the passenger vehicles...

Premier poultry sells portable electric fencing for goats and poultry. Its designed for what you want.

I run all mine together. I have one turkey who thinks she is a duck and one who thinks she is a chicken. The others have decided to be turkeys. There are also geese in the mix, but they all free range during the day in their various flocks and are only in the barn at night and work out their own...

Won't work. Some cows eat those as well. Thats why they make cow magnets for hardware disease. My cows won't eat swamp grass, really course wide bladed grasses, or cat tails no matter what.

I grind my feed into chop and mix it with raw milk. Sometimes the milk is clabbered if I have too much to feed right away and it has been sitting for a few days.

Yes it will be tough. You must give time for rigor mortis to pass and after that the meat will start undergoing a chemical change which tenderizes it.

Wish I had your feed prices. Wheat is 17.50 bag and peas are 15.00 and going up plus getting harder to find as well. I have 8 pigs in the freezers for sale, and 2 litters expected end of Oct. Its worrying me to keep the next lot over the winter with the cost of feed, and hay for bedding is...

Not less then 48 hrs and up to 5 days. I do 4 days. You can freeze right away, but then you have to let them sit in the fridge for a few days after they are completely thawed.

The article explains it very well. There is a severe drought covering 56% of the US and Ontario has also been hit. This translates into NO pastures (grass) and NO hay or very expensive hay. Every one in North America is competing for all available feed. There is not enough to go around. With...

Sorry Moolie, I don't mind a good squabble. Thats all this is. In my mind, you have a tendancy to cherry pick the posts for sound bites while ignoring the context around them; your response to my last post and your friend demonstrates this amply. If every little nuance has to be spelled out...

Technically speaking, one would think that a convection oven would take care of the hot/cold spots. Convection is nothing more then a cirlulating fan in the back of the oven for which you pay big bucks. The questions that need to be asked are; how long and at what temp. would you need to keep...

Moolie, I did not give the wrong information. I simply did not use the words "internal food temp." I gave a simplified answer to the question of why commercially canned food might not be under the "boil warning". Please google it as per your own suggestion and regardless of what your canner and...

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Commercial canners reach 250 degrees while home pressure canners reach 240 degrees. Its the 10 degree temp. differential that makes the difference according to health regulations. The part that confuses me is boiling water only reaches 212 degrees so how is boiling the food for 20 min...

I am quite comfortable with more than a few unapproved methods. These days everything is frowned upon. Actually, the government and the instruction manuals for pressure canners tell you to boil your canned goods for 20 minutes before using. What for? Because there is still a possiblity of...

Canning math is making my brain explode as well. Its even harder when tryng to stock pile jars for the ever increasing bounty I have yet to grow "next year". Then along comes tatler lids and do you order all wide mouth (I try to only buy widemouth jars) or get some for the reg. jars which seems...

Over fresh tree ripened peaches gets you even closer.