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Critters: Every sort of beast

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bugs

diatomaceous earth

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critter care

organic war on fleas!

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chickens

best perennial chicken feed

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chickens

making the best of raising cornish rock cross

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bugs

ants and aphids

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honey bees

What type of hive would be best for Sheer Total and Utter Neglect?

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bugs

Organic bed bug control

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honey bees

Holzer Style Log Bee Hive

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nibblers

how to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

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goats, sheep and llamas

why to not raise goats

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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

62 replies 1 35 1

pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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pollinators

We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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goats, sheep and llamas

Raising sheep only for wool

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pollinators

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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goats, sheep and llamas

What a bummer - how to care for an orphan lamb

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chickens

Cheapest, easiest to build, but still secure chicken tractor?

29 replies 1 17 10

chickens

Critter Breeder Review Grid

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goats, sheep and llamas

What are sheep good for?

31 replies 9 15

rabbits

Catching a domestic rabbit before the monsters get it

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beavers

Building a beaver dam

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chickens

Chicken fodder/forage success stories?

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pollinators

Please Help by Sharing What You Do to Help Our Pollinators

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chickens

Interest In Review Grid for Hatcheries

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chickens

Shellfish shells as bio-accumulators of heavy metals

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bugs

Raising Cockroaches

40 replies 4 8

bugs

Superworms for bioremediation of polystyrene: ideas for extending the (re)processing?

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dogs and cats

Dog Body Language Quiz (How well can you read your dog?)

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chickens

In defense of a broody hen

20 replies 2 4 8

honey bees

Top Bar Hives vs health issues

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chickens

Chicken winter greenhouse

20 replies 10 5

chickens

Cow vs chicken - funny debate

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nibblers

Squirrels: Friend or Foe?

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bugs

Natural pest control for your garden

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ducks and geese

advice on butchering geese?

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dogs and cats

some nutrition information about dogs - ask me any questions you may have about nutrition

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rabbits

Rabbit care after surgery

5 months ago 4 replies 1

dogs and cats

Introducing my husky to other animals

5 months ago 9 replies 1 4

honey bees

Beekeeper suit that prevents bees from dying

5 months ago 13 replies 2 1

rabbits

alternative to a mesh cage bottom?

5 months ago 26 replies 1

chickens

guinea fowl and chickens together?

5 months ago 13 replies

honey bees

Video: Because It's Not Good to Use Smoke Working with Bees

5 months ago 0 replies

chickens

Finally, a mobile chicken coop one person can (easily) move.

5 months ago 19 replies 1 3 4

bugs

What is this critter a centipede like thing? (ID: wire worm)

5 months ago 6 replies 2

honey bees

Another use for pallets

5 months ago 1 reply 2

dogs and cats

Teach your dog to fetch firewood from the woods

5 months ago 2 replies 3 1

honey bees

I present the PermaMeliponicultura and the Oscar Perone hive of automatic harvest

5 months ago 22 replies 1 1 7

honey bees

Honeybees foraging fungi in the woods

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chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

5 months ago 92 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 1 3 1

honey bees

Wax moths

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pigs

Timid KuneKune boar

5 months ago 2 replies

chickens

Is it Safe to eat Chickens after.......

5 months ago 11 replies 2

bugs

Breeding butterflies as alternative pollinators

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chickens

Extras for quails

5 months ago 3 replies

ducks and geese

Very angry behavior from my 4 yr old female Peking! Help!!

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dogs and cats

How do you keep the cats from shitting in your garden?

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honey bees

Brushy Mountain Bee Farm

5 months ago 4 replies 3 1

honey bees

Brushy Mountain Bee Farm

5 months ago 1 reply

bugs

Mealworm substrate

5 months ago 4 replies

cattle

Rotational grazing on small scale

5 months ago 26 replies 1

chickens

I need some encouragement

5 months ago 19 replies 3 4

chickens

Chicken Composting Operation - a video showing all our steps...

5 months ago 7 replies 1 1

bugs

The Good Caterpiller - the butterfly caterpillar

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critter care

Milkweed and hares

5 months ago 3 replies

honey bees

Warre Hive Hut?

5 months ago 3 replies 1

ducks and geese

Fox proof duck passage under water?

5 months ago 11 replies 2

honey bees

Video - PermApiculture - How to use dowsing to locate hives - english subtitles

5 months ago 0 replies 1 1

goats, sheep and llamas

stilt grass invasion... and what eats it?

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goats, sheep and llamas

Thinning forest for browse

5 months ago 6 replies

critter care

HELP Cats covered with fleas

5 months ago 27 replies 1

bugs

Flea Eggs

5 months ago 4 replies

butchery

What piece of beef do I have? Butchery question

5 months ago 3 replies 4

honey bees

how much vinegar in my fondant?

5 months ago 7 replies

chickens

Black stuff on rooster comb/wattle

5 months ago 5 replies 2

honey bees

just caught a swarm... suggestions for overwintering?

5 months ago 8 replies

honey bees

how to entice bees out of a log hive ?

5 months ago 15 replies 1

honey bees

Mushroom medicine for bees

5 months ago 3 replies

honey bees

Thermosolar hive for control of Verroa

5 months ago 25 replies 4 1
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