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Welcome to BYH! :frow

Not sure of that either. It's not got the shag bark. It looks really big, like 80 to 100' tall and a 40' breadth or more. The hickories are more oblong and come to pointy ends, kinda like a football. Once I find out if they taste good or not may make the determination. Could be a Pignut Hickory...

The leaves have pointy tips and small acorns. I'm not sure whick oak they are. We do have some Burr oak that aren't big enough to produce yet. They probably came from a tree that is just a stump now. The oak I am harvesting from now is probably 60 to 80yrs old. The hickory tree I harvested from...

Welcome from the Hoosier state! :frow I also raise meat rabbits and am getting my small homestead set up for laying hens and milk goats next Spring. I am mostly having to wait because of the outrageous price of fencing. I am just doing it for the sustenance benefits for my family. I did get a...

You're supposed to use large acorns, but mine are a smaller variety. Crack them and allow to dry to shell them. Hot leach or cold leach to remove the bitterness. The cold leach method involves a mesh bag and moving water for a week. Or, a tub and several changes of water for abt two weeks. The...

I read abt it first in a book I read as a kid called, "My Side of the Mountain". A mostly grown boy, maybe 14 to 16 ran away from a big family in NYC to go live on his great grandpa Gribley's property in tbe Catskills. I loved tbe book and it had a lot of survival skills logged in it as the boy...

The neighbor's place you described sounds awesome!

I would like to develop a solar generator to not have to rely on a fossil fuel generator, or maybe a small windmill. I agree with you entirely on dependence on electricity and I do not like it either.

Happy Fall Y'all!

Nature's bounty White 2gal bucket is acorns Gray 1gal bucket is hickory nuts Black 5gal bucket is walnuts I want to do a lengthy process and make acorn flour. We will see how that works out.

Our creek is abt 30 feet down a ravine behind the house so no flooding anticipated. I don't want it taking down my trees though.

Big R had a "premium" rabbit feed too. It was 40 lbs, had only 15% protein vs. the bag I got with 16% protein. My bag was 50 lbs and abt a buck and some change less!

My troop used to have fun doing a Bowl-a-thon, and we may have sold some kind if chocolate product, but too long ago to remember what it was.

Yah, I am monitoring the situation and if need be, will take care of it regardless what the bleedheart neighbors think. A guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do to protect his own place. Same with the mink spotted. A buddy said he had mink abt decimate his chickens in a short time, so...

Today I went to Big R and bought new rabbit feed by Nutrena to start the rabbits on. Decided not to drive an hour anymore for feed. It looks nice and green, so rabbita should like it.

The unfortuntate thing is that the neighbors seem to be fond of "it" or ones that have been/ are currently here. If it doesn't mess withmy mature trees, I may let it stick around. One neighbor said she had a mink in her yard the other day. They also have seen sn eagle flying overhead lately. I...

Looked out the window on East side of house toward barn and chicken coop and saw a huge beaver up from the creek in the grass. It looked like it was foraging, but unless it was going for sticks and limbs, all that's there was walnuts and hickory nuts. Do they eat those? Did I mention it looked huge?

Tell your Landlord I could use some fencing too, AND if he/she just purchases everything and leaves it on pallets at your place, I will drive all the way to TN and pick it up to bring it back to IN! :lol:

Indiana follows Federal law about transporting firearms. As long as it's lawfully owned, firearm can be in vehicle secured and if ammunition is present, it has to be secured in a separate area of the vehicle until getting to ones temporary or otherwise permanent abode.

Do you need a permit for long guns too? Indiana is different than some states. Firearms on private property is allowed without permits. Permits are for carrying handguns here. Open carry or concealed. Long guns aren't given permits. I do live out of town, so handguns on my property or long guns...