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diatomaceous earth

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organic war on fleas!

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best perennial chicken feed

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ants and aphids

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honey bees

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honey bees

Holzer Style Log Bee Hive

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bugs

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rabbits

Best meat rabbit breed?

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chickens

chicken coops/runs/tractors/paddocks/pens/etc.

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honey bees

the ultimate skiddable bee hut

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nibblers

Owl Decoys... do they work?

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chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

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pollinators

Dale's Pollinator photos --- Add yours, name and describe them. Let's make it a catalogue

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goats, sheep and llamas

old spinning wheel photos and questions

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goats, sheep and llamas

why to not raise goats

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goats, sheep and llamas

Raising sheep only for wool

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honey bees

Podcast 284 - Reverence for Bees Part 1

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pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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Vancouver Island fibreshed - what are we getting right? what's missing?

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Backyard Dairy Goats on Kickstarter!

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What a bummer - how to care for an orphan lamb

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rabbits

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goats, sheep and llamas

What are sheep good for?

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chickens

I need some encouragement

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pollinators

Please Help by Sharing What You Do to Help Our Pollinators

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Shellfish shells as bio-accumulators of heavy metals

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chickens

Chicken fodder/forage success stories?

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bugs

Raising Cockroaches

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goats, sheep and llamas

Milking with arthritis

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ducks and geese

Hugel-Chinampas, now with duckoponic swales

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dogs and cats

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chickens

Interest In Review Grid for Hatcheries

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goats, sheep and llamas

Cost to raise sheep

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nibblers

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goats, sheep and llamas

wool, from sheep to fabric - traditional techniques from portugal

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fish

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dogs and cats

Breeds of dogs that won't hurt livestock &/or how to train them

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goats, sheep and llamas

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C5 asks, " Can a pig and a llama co-habitate? "

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bugs

Ants!

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chickens

Trying to revitalize a 15 year old coop/barn

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chickens

Does deep litter work in the extreme cold?

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ducks and geese

a goose game

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horses, donkeys and mules

aggressive guard donkey

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dogs and cats

Working Jack Russell Terriers -- are Ontario permies interested in pups?

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pigs

Fermenting Feed at Scale

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ducks and geese

Duck housing at night???

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cattle

Pineywoods Cattle breed

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bugs

identifying bees vs. yellowjackets

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chickens

Broody hen - too late in the summer to let her lay due to molting?

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bugs

Will Black Walnut and Hickory Nuts grow if picked green?

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cattle

Building a Working Living Fence this Spring

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goats, sheep and llamas

Goats without fences?

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pigs

Forgotten or oddball cuts when butchering a boar

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pigs

boars and sows together?

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pigs

pig powered tilling and the soil food web

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bugs

OUCH, biggest fly I've ever seen and man can he bite.

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cattle

Would you raise a calf on skim milk?

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ducks and geese

Herding Ducks - Any advice?

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dogs and cats

Mosquitoes and cats

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goats, sheep and llamas

New to Goats!

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bugs

bug ID help

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pigs

PIGS!

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nibblers

Carcinogens in bone sauce

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chickens

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pollinators

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goats, sheep and llamas

Spring is Here: Fencing Thoughts

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chickens

Lots of goat or sheep poo? Make poo paper

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honey bees

Two very different honey bees?

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predators

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chickens

Fish for food?

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honey bees

Box with old comb question

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honey bees

Foraging or did they abscond?

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bugs

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goats, sheep and llamas

is there a breed of sheep that absolutely loves bermuda grass?

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goats, sheep and llamas

Under Blue Sky The Life of a Herdsman

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cattle

Regenerative grazing demonstration project - on the I-5 in California

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chickens

Large scale meat bird production no grain

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chickens

Community Chicks

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bugs

Do cabbage moth decoys really work?

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chickens

dying quail

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chickens

Black Soldier Flies in Montana?

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ducks and geese

Low Cost Housing for Ducks

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