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I am struggling with our government making matters worse for Americans facing tragedy due to weather and giving all this aid an housing to illegal immigrant populations. They are asking for a civil war.

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Turkeys seem to do well on ladder type roosts that start 12-18″ off the floor and go up in the same spacing. Depends if you have midget whites or standards. I love starting them on a low board as a practice roost. What a great idea.

It is the beginning of Feb in Ohio and Rural king had 3 poults for $2 each because they were almost 2 weeks old and they needed sold for room for new arrivals. I have never had turkeys. W I didn’t bring them home, but would this have been a stupid idea. They would have brooded in the garage.

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I grew up on cider fried rabbit with onions. Oh my it was good like you can’t get anywhere else. I hope your trio has been productive!

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I made a firewood carrier by laying 2 out flat and folding in the long edges to a width of about 20″, and angle fold the ends to taper for where the handles will attach. I took another bag and cut it in strips 5-6″ wide, folded those in half and braided them into handles and sewed across the ends to hold the braids still. It came out well. A household sewing machine can handle 4 layers of you go slow.

Sturdy,lightweight, dries easily. Just don’t sit it near the wood stove. Just an intuitive thought.

I also store my yet-to-be-ground, and then-ground biochar in them.

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Mine dies back to the ground every year and grows back in spring. I never cut it back, but it’s out of the way

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I dug into this over the weekend and found an explanation that the color change was from a difference in variety of apples Bragg’s is using based on the season. This didn’t make very much sense to me considering apples have a season in general. Most varieties are both available and unavailable at the same time frames.

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That is ingenious and makes so much sense.Thank you. It will make its garden debut at my house next Spring….or sooner in the basement garden.

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Precisely correct. Comfrey is a superhero medicinal, animal forage both fresh and dried, and borage is more of an edible.

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Mycoremediation???

I had an epiphany today. I am terrible at Facebook, and was temporarily banned from Marketplace before I ever bought or sold anything. (That’s just raw talent😋) But I found a local lady growing mushrooms who had spent sawdust sprouting blocks for free. These are not completely inactive, and some are fruiting still (mushrooms growing on the blocks).

I went and picked up 63 5+ lb. blocks. Boom! That got me thinking that mycoremediation with this product might be “a thing”. Any big brained thoughts from my freedom friends?

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Bags of chicken feet can be reasonably purchased from butcher shops. Scald and skin, if not already done, and crock pot on low. Add real salt, garlic and other herbs ( I love thyme, which grows readily in most zones. Delicious chicken bone broth, and compost to either side dress garden rows or add to the compost pile.

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(continued) She kindled one week after I got her. She has been the best mama. Only 3 kits. The kicker is this last weekend it was down to 10 degrees. The nest box has a wire bottom lined with cardboard, brown Amazon packing paper, straw and mama fur. The sides are wood, with a mamaescape resting pad on the top. I have been using hand and toe warmers (air activated) that last for 8 hours behind a later of cardboard so they don’t get chewed on, tucked into the sides of the nest box. Everyone is still alive, I have a seed starting heat mat under the nest box and more cardboard and straw packed around the nest box as well.

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Hi Ken,

I am new to SF, and I feel like a 5 year old with constant stream of questions. I have had rabbits before, but it’s different this time. Last time I had a standard rex doe who was demon possessed. Growling, biting,lunging with claws, cage defensive, the whole 9 yards.

So these silver fox are AMAZING. They came from a less than ideal situation, buck and doe housed together. She had lost 2-3 litters because no nest box was provided and they died on the wire. She had pulled fur and tried very hard, but the then-owner wasn’t knowledgeable and/or attentive, and they got to be a hassle. He got them last fall. No tattoos or papers, from KY. For all I know, they may be siblings.

I separated them ion arrival. I was told she had kits two weeks prior. She

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Do you have any issues with RHV (I believe is the acronym) with tractoring buns vs. keeping them in hutches? I am looking to possibly tractor mine this warm season. I would definitely appreciate a dose of wisdom. New rabbiter here, and I feel like a 5 year old with all my questions 🤣

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Sounds like we have the same gloves. I agree.

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Looks like broad breasted bronze, would be my first guess.