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Welcome to SS! I live right on the Missouri/Arkansas border. What kind of chickens do you have? I have some Australorps that have blue and grand champion ribbons under their belt. I just love them! I have others too with slightly less prestige, Americana, Marans (half out of Wade Jean lines) and...

That's what I thought! She's a beauty! Of course I'm just in love with my teeny goats now. It will be good to take on a bottle baby that's almost done rather than start out when Toula kids the first time! I'm happy to get some slightly safer learning opportunities. I already have two kids...

Haha yes he was, Old Blue Eyes. I'm going Greek so I was thinking Persephone or the lady Zeus carried across the sea. Europa, I think. Also maybe Artemis if she's a rascal!

That's what I thought! I ADORE that breed and really want one someday. Sphinx cats and Crestie dogs I just adore them. If they made a hairless rabbit I'd have them haha! My chihuahua is smooth haired with no undercoat so in the summer he's practically naked. If I could just get him to grow a Mohawk!

There is something on this thread that mentions it. You can can in beef broth or just water, I think. Just canned eleven half-pints of cherry jam. I always end up with more than the recipe says. I don't know why!

I'm sure you've said before, but what kind of dogs are those? They're very interesting!

I have had an interesting week. I started weeding my garden plot and Toula and Nicky (goats) have been helping! My bee hive was hit with Colony Collapse, and is completely abandoned. It's kind of haunting to think about that 100% abandoned empty beehive. Our incubator with guinea and turkey eggs...

Grape jelly and peach butter, my first canning adventure! Then a friend is butchering some extra roosters and skinning them. I don't really want to use skinless for dumplins because cooking with the skin on is better, or at least mama says it is and she makes the dumplins so she wins! Anyway...

Boo I'm jealous of you. Everytime we try to hatch turkey eggs some godawful disaster kills them all and it's ALWAYS a different turkey egg Armageddon. At least people post pics so I can see what poults look like! :P PS they're adorable

Well all is going well with the goats. The doe is Toula and the buckling Nicky. They're hilarious animals and I just love them. I let them out to free range supervised and can always get them back inside amazingly. I hatched a bunch of silkie chicks and sold all but six partridge colored ones...

Totally agree I want to get started early too! I think matching soap, bath salt and bath fizz all in Christmas theme will be good, or maybe really nice necklace/bracelet/earring combos or some of both. I will still buy for my mom and best friend because they do so much for me they deserve a big...

Well I may be biased at 23, but I think severe punishment is in order. Nothing scared me as a teen more than the three hour serious talks when I'd done something wrong. The screaming can only last for ten minutes but a lecture? Never let them see you sweat; my mom calmly getting onto me was...

Thanks! And yeah you totally need goats! They're so wonderful!

I've just started building my herd of milk goats--Nigerian dwarf, they're about the size of my rabbits haha! I am going to plant Timothy and build two fences around it, growing a meat steer on it, one a year and let one pasture grow tall, cut enough for the goats and rabbits while the cow...

My white doe looks like a large dog! Haha no but she is longer and a big more "massive". Just notice the reds being slightly smaller. The whites I have look like a young Flemish Giant. She's still under 8 months too so she'll keep growing, Eek! Haha but anyway, the babies seem even bigger...

I think we got that storm too. It was nuts! Lasted barely any time at all but blew over both shop fans and knocked out the power for a bit but not at the house where the bators are going! Hopefully the thunder hasn't hurt the little eggies. I REALLY need these baby turkeys and guineas though the...

Haha I was going to compliment the reds! They are gorgeous rabbits, although I must wag my finger at all the badtalking my red eyed whites! They are so much bigger than the reds--it's odd but for some reason everybody that breeds both tells me this too. My white dos Holly is so massive! Her...

I guess we need to start stocking hay for the goats through winter, but thankfully we won't need the volume you guys have for horses. The goats are dwarf goats and as of now I have two! Hay is a major factor in the livestock market around here and animals are selling CHEAP because people don't...

Everytime I have something to do outside like build cages, catch chickens, move a big bunch of rabbits around or house my new goats yesterday, it's 100 degrees minimum without fail. On the 85 days we get I just sit inside like "Wish I had something to get done outside before it got hot". I have...

Oh yeah here the pics she sent me of them. I haven't taken pictures of them yet but I plan to when they're out in their big pens.