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Thank you Calendula for your winter supplement suggestions. I will be looking into some farms in Maine later in the spring and hope to visit before jumping in. We have so much to do before this becomes a reality for us.

Love all your pictures of your critters. I went to visit a goat farm this fall since I'm still in the planning stage of my own. They all had different personalities. I'm really excited that you will have kids. To me this is a bit scary, I'm just learning all I can right now but helping with...

@Goat Whisperer ... Thank you for the information on Chaffhaye. Now that it is winter in the Northeast, a lot of questions have been popping up as I think about going out in the cold snowy yard and tending to goats. Since I never had any before I was wondering how to supplement their diet in...

Soooo happy I found this thread. Lots of great information, especially on different types of hay :thumbsup (I never would have known this) As I research goats and hope to have some of my own this year I will need to research "hay" sources in my area. Thanks for the great information!!! :woot

Well, I didn't know this. I'm looking at nigerian dwarf goats for milk production. Yes, I would eventually like to breed them so I can get milk..;) . See I have a lot to learn....:caf. Thank you NH for the barn answers. I thought they would need to be together but I wasn't sure on...

I've been busy with life, new job, Christmas, 18 inches of new snow and then a visit to my sister in NH. New job is going great, so happy to be working for a small local office. Enjoyed seeing my sister and her family and celebrating the new year with them. I hope everyone had a happy and...

Glad your DD's made it home safe.:hugs My husband went to the town sand pile and got a tote of sand. My son spread some on the driveway after the rain stopped. He did a clean up last night of all the snow before the rain. This morning with the rain and warm temps all the snow came off our...

Yes, that means $0.89 Dunkin in the AM. :celebrate

Yes, going to be a deep freeze again. Roads will be icy in the AM. Yes, the warm temps today were just a tease. o_O

Yes, we had 7 inches on snow on Saturday and then rain Sunday, was slippery for awhile but I stayed home putting up the tree and puttering around the house. Pellet stove was a humming. Sun came out just before sunset. :clap

Yes, Bruce, that is our plan. Put our home on the market in the spring then live in our camper for the summer and look for a new property. We will need to pay for storage for all our "stuff". Hopefully by fall we will have a new place, if not we can rent for the winter and continue looking.

So I'm going to jump in.... I've been a member for less than a month but I'm enjoying reading about your journeys to where you are today and about all your animals. I've decided I have a lot more to learn but time is on my side. I'm married to my husband Dennis for 25 years. We have one son who...

Calendulas, what a great introduction. Maybe I'll do mine now. I'm in the planning stage of getting land and goats and chickens. We had chickens in the past but to do goats we need to sell our one acre house and land and get more land. Accounting is a great field of study and so transferable...

Yes, big game is great to fill the freezer. My husband got a Moose this year and so did his father. Moose hunting in Maine is a lottery drawing you need to put in for. It was amazing both he and his father were drawn this year. Between the two of them the freezer is well stocked for the...

NH Homesteader, sorry to hear about your frozen pipes. Yes, it is cold here this morning too -10 and well as you know with the wind chill more like -30. It's early in the winter for us to have this cold weather, feels like late January and February. Sorry to hear about your Tom. I'm learning...

Me too. We live in a small town outside Lewiston right now and withing 45 minutes of Portland. I might go there 4-5 times a year. If we could find land in our current town we will stay right here.

I live in Wales, just north of Lewiston/Auburn

Thank you for the welcome frustratedearthmother and ferguson k!! :frow Lots of Texans on here. Must be all that wide open space that is perfect for animals. I'm hoping to find a blend of woods and fields when we are ready for our move. Hoping to heat with wood from our own land, grow our...

Thank you for the warm welcome. :weee I lived in Alaska when I was a kid..... many moons ago. :old Homesteading in Alaska must have its challanges with the short growing period. Do you have greenhouses? We have some cold winters here and I'm trying to get ideas for winter months (growing...