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Here in Maine, we grow rocks! 🤣
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I supplement with feed and Maine winters means I rely more on feed during the winter. Unfortunately, I too, am experiencing this. A lot of days I’ll get 0 eggs but some days I get up to 4 eggs. I am overwintering more chickens than I normally do but yet getting less eggs. That doesn’t make any sense. But I also feed the same brand to my meat rabbits which I raise in a colony. They do slow down for winter but I have not had any kits so far! Usually I’ll still get 1 or 2 litters during winter. This year, so far – nothing. I have not heard anyone else complaining about this though. Am I just wearing my tin foil hat too tight or is this happening to others with meat rabbits too??
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I have bought from many different seed companies, participated in seed swaps, and even bought seeds from local stores. But what I’m really focused on is saving my own seeds so that I’m not buying what I can easily do myself. I follow “Seed to Seed” and have been having success although I have only just started getting serious about it.
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Anytime! 🙂 That’s how we learn; we ask questions 😉
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LGD stands for Livestock Guardian Dog
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I have a LGD that I just got last year. He still needs more training but I think his pee and bark has been keeping everything away so far. The worst time with predators for me is the end of winter so we’ll see. Anyways, they are in kind of like an extra large outside dog kennel (bigger than 10′ x 10′ – I forget the dimensions). When I set it up, I lightly buried about 3′ of hardwire cloth on each side of the border. They are allowed to dig in the middle as it’s a natural thing to do. They are not supposed to be able to dig out. There is, obviously, wire all around including the top. There is a shade tarp that covers half of it along with the back half of the sides to protect from wind. However, this spring I will be building a roof over top because we get a lot of snow here and even though I clean the snow off, I worry about it giving out in a few years or so. I have straw and heavy duty plastic dog houses in the back and the front is all natural which I just take out the poop. All my guys have been very healthy and I only ever had one issue with one of my litters getting like a congtivitis, which was easily treatable (I think it was because I used fine shavings so I stopped that and haven’t had a problem since). I have a tire in there a few braches for them to chew a mini pallet to put their food and water on to keep it cleaner. And they get orchard hay/Timothy grass/Alfalfa hay at all times. I love the colony setup but it is a learning curve with breeding.
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Welcome! You’ll get millions of useful lessons in with homesteading 🙂
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My daughter just turned 3 the end of August so she’s still learning but I started by writing in the sand outside. Now that it’s colder, we have a dry erase book we use to practice writing letters.
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Wow! That’s awesome
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I started out with Montessori which you can start from day 1. I am not strict with it, but it is amazing to see how much they can do and how it really does make for less frustration and tantrums.
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Unschooling is what we pretty much do too! I wish my parents did this with me!