Anything AND everything!

[Alexz7272]

@Baymule I hope she feels better soon and you are giving her lots of snuggles!

@samssimonsays Glad you are feeling better! And have fun at that bonfire, we just did one this last weekend, I about gave my mother a heartache a couple times

 

[Alexz7272]

Woah! Luckily we dont need a permit as long as there is no fire ban. Hope you all get your bonefire action soon! We have some pretty cool traditions regarding bonfires in Lithuanian culture, so I am a sucker for them!

@micah wotring Sounds like a handful! Remind me to ask you about Youtube if I ever get into that, I may be 25 but have zero idea how that all works
Keep up the good work, you are one tough kid

 

[Bruce]

Oh and the fire department has the right to come inspect it once you call it in. There's all kinds of rules about size and you can only burn certain things and blah blah... They like to show up and shut people down because they're bored.

Hmm, I'll have to check on this. Haven't ever looked into getting a permit. Hopefully anything that grew in the ground is OK to burn. I wouldn't burn trash and plastic but I suspect there are some who would. No sense in our town though, "curbside" pickup is in the property taxes. Some of us have no curbs, no flat sidewalk, no pavement between the house and the road and the stupid wheeled bins we HAVE to use are pretty sucky.

 

[NH homesteader]

Here we have size limits on width of wood.

 

[Bruce]

I just checked:
-No permit is required for a camp fire, under 36" in diameter.

"-It is Illegal to burn: Paper & Cardboard; Tires & other Rubber products; Treated, Painted, or Finished Wood; Tarpaper or asphalt Shingles; Plastics; Garbage."

Required to get a permit?
"-Yes, except when the ground is blanketed in snow. "
Well that shouldn't be too hard. In decent year that gives us at least 3 months if not 5.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have to get Burn Permits from 15 Oct to 15 May but you can call or do it online and we have similar restrictions as you. We can burn brush and scrap wood (size is supposed to be limited to 4'x8') but since we haven'[t had any rain in almost 3 months I won't even think about starting a fire permit or not. We can burn paper trash in barrels as long as you have a screen over the fire.

 

[Bruce]

Does that mean that you aren't allowed to burn between 16 May and 14 Oct?

 

[HomeOnTheRange]

Well, this morning was the monthly goat and sheep auction. Some of the Boer does were going for $175 up to $210. The nice bucks went for $320. Then came the Angoras and they went for $35 to $65. They were very nice looking angoras! Lambs were going for $1.20 up to $1.55 a pound. A pure bread Nubian doe with papers went for $220. The sheep were all over the place in price. A large number of just weaned mixed goats went for as little as $25 apiece up to $57.50.

But they had one animal that was so unusual for us that they had to let it stand in the auction corral for about 5 minutes so everyone could get a good look. It was a true gentle giant! Of course I am not use to having a camera on my phone so I forgot that I could now take pictures . He was a little over 5' 6" tall and allowed a lot of people to feel his coat. I may have seen my next herd!! It was a Yak. Does anyone know much about Yaks? Do they do well in heat and higher altitudes (above 5,200 feet)? Do they get along with other animals? Will they allow LGDs to be around? How much would it set me back per animal?

OK, thanks for letting me ramble

 

[NH homesteader]

Ha! How cool! From what I understand, yaks do not do well in the heat. But maybe I'm wrong?

 

[micah wotring]

@micah wotring Sounds like a handful! Remind me to ask you about Youtube if I ever get into that, I may be 25 but have zero idea how that all works
Keep up the good work, you are one tough kid

Haha, sure. Thanks!