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ants and aphids

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raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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

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Holzer Style Log Bee Hive

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goats, sheep and llamas

"Backyard Dairy Goats" book

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

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honey bees

the ultimate skiddable bee hut

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nibblers

how to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

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chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

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pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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goats, sheep and llamas

why to not raise goats

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I think permaculture insect control has failed me.

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rabbits

Best meat rabbit breed?

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Owl Decoys... do they work?

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ducks and geese

geese and small children

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butchery

If I ever teach butchery or dressing a carcass again

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bugs

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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chickens

big red neck chicken sick

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chickens

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

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

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beavers

Building a beaver dam

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pigs

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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ducks and geese

ducks lying down and geese nipping at them--WHY???

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chickens

Chicken winter greenhouse

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bugs

Where can I buy silkworm or silkmoths and supplies in Canada?

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rabbits

My Rabbit Hates Me

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chickens

Disadvantages to PVC pipe chicken or duck run? How fast does it break down?

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goats, sheep and llamas

3 month lamb with flystrike

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honey bees

Extracting honey took so much effort it may never be worth it again

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cattle

Sensitive Topic-Rancher had to put down lame Cow

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How to get rid of a body?

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critter care

I'm ready to scream and cuss, I'm that frustrated.

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cattle

Where do Cows go in Winter?

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Urban market for duck eggs?

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Good Bugs

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gama grass

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vine bores

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squirrel husbandry

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chickens

Egg Scorecard by Cornucopia Institute

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critter care

Salatin's "The Sheer Ecstacy of Being a Lunatic Farmer"

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rabbits

snaring rabbits

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Ants in the house

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cattle

"Our cattle don't eat corn; they don't know what it is !"

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nibblers

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