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  1. SillyChicken

    What mill do you use?

    http://www.roundbarnfiber.com/ I am thinking about sending my fleeces to this place. They have all new equipment and prices seem reasonable.
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    Pictures of my first honey harvest

    we put the frames with the unfinished honey in the center of the hive super when we replaces all the frames... they'll usually work from the center out.
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    Are most of my photos gone?
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    MI (SL) - Reg Mini Lamancha Buck for sale

    Here are his bottle babies... the little black n white is still very small... and cute as a button!
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    MI (SL) - Reg Mini Lamancha Buck for sale

    He is only like 10% LaMancha...it basically only gave him a little height advantage. So far all his littles have been, little. One of the smaller kids, is still very tiny. So he is not contributing to size. Hopefully he has contributed to milking quality, but I won't know that until next...
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    MI (SL) - Reg Mini Lamancha Buck for sale

    He is currently not registered, but he will be with MDGA F1. I will register him before selling so I can register my kids. We are done using him as a stud and would like him to go to someone well versed in dealing with a mature buck. Last years breeding to our single doe (first freshener)...
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    antique cream separators and goat milk... Will it work?

    Does anyone know if an old cream separator will spin out the cream from goats milk? I currently only have one ND doe that is providing milk and I wanted an easier,quicker way to separate the cream so I can use the both products faster. I picked up a da level junior cream separator for a great...
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    New Milk room Building- Advice Welcome

    FRP is great for the use, just make sure the adhesive is ok to use outside. You can use on ceilings they have little push pin things that will help hold it to a substrate, thin plywood or fiberglass drywall. The "fake tile" stuff is Masonite, and that will soak moisture like a sponge... in an...
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    Where do you milk your goats?

    My milking set up is in the goat shed. When I milk I take a second container filled with ice water. I pre chill the jar I milk into in the ice water. I milk through a filter so nothing can even get into the milk jar, then when I'm done I remove the filter and close the lid on the jar and it...
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    Got a really nice mature doe during opening weekend... not out of my blind, I was hunting on my dads farm. Everyone harvested a deer over the weekend so it was a very successful season for us! I took the venison hearts and cut them up and dried them in my oven for dog treats. Sage loves them...
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    Ugh... so heart broken.... my beautiful ewe dani (avitar) was found dead. After she lambed in the spring, she was very thin and never really recovered... even after worming, and giving extra food, and supplements. Not sure what was wrong with her, I was traveling for work and my DH buried her...
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    Sage is getting big... she's a little chew machine! I have been repurposing a large shipping crate into a hunting blind. Put a coat of paint on the outside of it last night... will put on another tonight and then some camo patterns. I have about $80 into this thing in paint and hardware...
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    It took me 20 yrs before I finally got mine! I've always loved the multiple horns... they seem almost prehistoric. Our ram is coming along nicely. Hoping for a bunch of new littles in the spring. Speaking of sheep... what brought me to post this morning was a little gem of a find I picked...
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    Thought I would share the photo of our new puppy, Sage. We don't have her yet, another 2 agonizingly long weeks to wait! She's a Olde English Bulldogge (not an English bull dog) I can't wait. After loosing two of our older Cane Corso girls this year (still have two left), I've felt kinda...
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    Once or twice a day?

    Mine have free access to pasture and hay inside the shed. At night I give them a bit of grain/pellets to get them to come in.... I've cut back on the grain though cause they are looking a bit spoiled!
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    4-month Old Nigerian Dwarf Not Growing - Ideas?

    sorry about your little one.... as far as hereditary.. you can try the same breeding again or with another buck to find out. If you have more issues, I would cull the doe or don't breed her anymore.
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    New from Michigan... sorta

    Revisiting my first post! A lot can change in 2 yrs... we ended up not getting the yaks. I decided that they were too big for our land at this time. We went in a different direction completely! The farm went to WYS to Feckin Farm (still is) but all my livestock is reg under Pine Hollow...
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    Rams?? Aptness for aggression by breed?

    So for those of you who feel that treatment and raising of rams makes a difference in how they behave, respect us.........what do you do? I just got a little Jacob ram lamb, right now he is totally afraid of us and I have not tried to touch him. I rather he stay afraid rather than get to...
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    Possibly adding a Jacobs ram lamb

    If you have them that close, make sure the fence is super sturdy, won't take long for them to mash or tear it up.
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    Look what happened last night

    Check with local processors, one of the larger chicken processors in our area does rabbits now, so we took ours there. Huge time saver for us. When we did ourselves, we would put in a small cage and shoot w/ .22 in the back of the head.
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