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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

54 replies 1

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?

22 replies

chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

92 replies 1 3 1

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

79 replies 1 22 6

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

38 replies 3 5

beavers

Building a beaver dam

33 replies 1 18 15

chickens

Chicken fodder/forage success stories?

68 replies 3 18

pollinators

Please Help by Sharing What You Do to Help Our Pollinators

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chickens

Interest In Review Grid for Hatcheries

23 replies 1 9

chickens

Shellfish shells as bio-accumulators of heavy metals

17 replies 10

bugs

Raising Cockroaches

40 replies 4 8

bugs

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

21 replies 8 9

dogs and cats

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

50 replies 4 5 9

chickens

In defense of a broody hen

20 replies 2 4 8

honey bees

Top Bar Hives vs health issues

21 replies 12 6

chickens

Chicken winter greenhouse

20 replies 10 5

chickens

Cow vs chicken - funny debate

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nibblers

Squirrels: Friend or Foe?

26 replies 2 5

bugs

Natural pest control for your garden

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ducks and geese

Ducks always molting--Why?!?!

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chickens

Respectful harvest of chickens

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horses, donkeys and mules

First post from a horse trainer :)

6 months ago 3 replies

chickens

Chicken Broiler Breeder Recommendations please!

6 months ago 10 replies 1

chickens

Backyard Chickens: A Practical Handbook to Raising Chickens (free on Amazon for 48 hours)

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rabbits

Wood preservative/treatment for wooden cage

6 months ago 1 reply

bugs

Greenhouse pollinators

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chickens

Egg organization

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bugs

Garden for insect predators and pollinators

6 months ago 8 replies 1 5

nibblers

id this for me, please!

6 months ago 4 replies 1

bugs

Ants!

6 months ago 20 replies 1 1

chickens

Trying to revitalize a 15 year old coop/barn

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chickens

Does deep litter work in the extreme cold?

6 months ago 52 replies [ 1, 2 ] 8 3

ducks and geese

a goose game

6 months ago 4 replies 2 1

horses, donkeys and mules

aggressive guard donkey

6 months ago 8 replies

dogs and cats

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

6 months ago 0 replies

pigs

Fermenting Feed at Scale

6 months ago 14 replies

ducks and geese

Duck housing at night???

6 months ago 7 replies 8

cattle

Pineywoods Cattle breed

6 months ago 8 replies 1

chickens

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

7 months ago 2 replies 1

bugs

Will Black Walnut and Hickory Nuts grow if picked green?

7 months ago 12 replies 2

cattle

Building a Working Living Fence this Spring

7 months ago 17 replies 7 1

goats, sheep and llamas

Goats without fences?

7 months ago 8 replies

pigs

Forgotten or oddball cuts when butchering a boar

7 months ago 9 replies 1

pigs

boars and sows together?

7 months ago 7 replies 1

pigs

pig powered tilling and the soil food web

7 months ago 4 replies 1

bugs

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

7 months ago 7 replies 1

cattle

Would you raise a calf on skim milk?

7 months ago 6 replies

ducks and geese

Herding Ducks - Any advice?

7 months ago 7 replies 1 2

dogs and cats

Mosquitoes and cats

7 months ago 1 reply

goats, sheep and llamas

New to Goats!

7 months ago 3 replies

bugs

bug ID help

7 months ago 7 replies 3 1

pigs

PIGS!

7 months ago 4 replies 5 1

nibblers

Carcinogens in bone sauce

7 months ago 2 replies

chickens

Coop and rotational paddock idea

7 months ago 22 replies 3 2

goats, sheep and llamas

Spring is Here: Fencing Thoughts

7 months ago 10 replies 2 4

chickens

Lots of goat or sheep poo? Make poo paper

7 months ago 1 reply

honey bees

Two very different honey bees?

7 months ago 9 replies 2

predators

RATS! and how to get rid of them

7 months ago 3 replies 1 1

chickens

Fish for food?

7 months ago 4 replies

honey bees

Box with old comb question

7 months ago 4 replies

honey bees

Foraging or did they abscond?

7 months ago 3 replies

bugs

Happy to get someone an apple for identifying this!

7 months ago 6 replies 1 3 1

goats, sheep and llamas

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

7 months ago 12 replies 1

goats, sheep and llamas

Under Blue Sky The Life of a Herdsman

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