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critter care

diatomaceous earth

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bugs

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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honey bees

Holzer Style Log Bee Hive

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bugs

Organic bed bug control

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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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nibblers

how to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

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pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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goats, sheep and llamas

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

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goats, sheep and llamas

Backyard Dairy Goats on Kickstarter!

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goats, sheep and llamas

What a bummer - how to care for an orphan lamb

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rabbits

Catching a domestic rabbit before the monsters get it

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goats, sheep and llamas

What are sheep good for?

22 replies 1 12

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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chickens

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

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

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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

Squirrels - how to grow food you actually get to eat?

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goats, sheep and llamas

wool, from sheep to fabric - traditional techniques from portugal

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fish

How to grow herbs & keep fish for cheap! Easy, small scale aquaponics DIY

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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

What are some natural treatments for sheep lice that work?

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fish

Has anyone set up an aquaponics system which does not use electricity?

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dogs and cats

How to make large comfortable dog beds that last for many years

1 month ago 6 replies 2 2

horses, donkeys and mules

For draft work, what are the advantages and disadvantages of horses, mules, donkeys, and tractors?

1 month ago 16 replies 1 3

chickens

Any ideas for a mouse trap that feeds the caught mice to chickens?

1 month ago 8 replies 2 2 3

fish

Fish in a barrel

1 month ago 8 replies 2

goats, sheep and llamas

Drying goats off?

1 month ago 4 replies 1

pigs

Permaculture Pigs looking for new FOREVER Home

1 month ago 9 replies 4

goats, sheep and llamas

Anthelmintic trees for goats, temperate climate. What works against worms (the parasites)?

1 month ago 9 replies 1

rabbits

Wire Shelving Rabbit Cage Build

1 month ago 9 replies 1 1

goats, sheep and llamas

Breeding virgin milker goats

1 month ago 3 replies 3

honey bees

Video - Conventional Beekeepers Harvesting Nucs and Frames with Nest Breeding English Subtitles

1 month ago 0 replies 1

pigs

HogTree, feeding pigs with a constrant dropping of fruits

1 month ago 8 replies

pigs

Excluding pigs from the entire pond.

1 month ago 2 replies 1

goats, sheep and llamas

goat toys

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chickens

How to transition chickens to mouse diet?

1 month ago 5 replies 1

dogs and cats

Can Dogs Eat Garlic and Onion?

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chickens

Poop Shelf with Sweet PDZ -- The easiest way to keep a henhouse clean and ammonia free

1 month ago 8 replies 1 5 1

goats, sheep and llamas

Slatted floor for sheep

1 month ago 5 replies

pigs

Anyboby providing near 100% of their animals diets via their own land?

1 month ago 8 replies 4

critter care

Squirrel best ways to remove

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dogs and cats

Lost my Staffy nearly 2yrs ago and also my Leopard Gecko this year

1 month ago 9 replies 4

predators

baby saw whet owl

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dogs and cats

Super hungry stray cat won't eat cat food

1 month ago 14 replies

pigs

Feeding pigs

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dogs and cats

Postive Petcare

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ducks and geese

Anyone have a solar setup for a pond/pool filter?

1 month ago 3 replies

dogs and cats

Homemade Dog Food!

1 month ago 22 replies 1

honey bees

Video Recipe - How to make Bee Bread - English subtitles

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honey bees

Why is it better not to cure bees at all. - English Subtitles

1 month ago 4 replies 1 2

ducks and geese

advice on butchering geese?

1 month ago 23 replies 1

dogs and cats

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

1 month ago 11 replies 1

rabbits

Rabbit care after surgery

1 month ago 4 replies 1

dogs and cats

Introducing my husky to other animals

1 month ago 9 replies 1 4

honey bees

Beekeeper suit that prevents bees from dying

1 month ago 13 replies 2 1

rabbits

alternative to a mesh cage bottom?

1 month ago 26 replies 1

chickens

guinea fowl and chickens together?

1 month ago 13 replies

honey bees

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

1 month ago 0 replies

chickens

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

1 month ago 19 replies 1 3 4

bugs

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

1 month ago 6 replies 2

honey bees

Another use for pallets

1 month ago 1 reply 2

dogs and cats

Teach your dog to fetch firewood from the woods

1 month ago 2 replies 3 1

honey bees

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

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honey bees

Honeybees foraging fungi in the woods

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chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

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honey bees

Wax moths

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