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Critters: Every sort of beast

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critter care

diatomaceous earth

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chickens

best perennial chicken feed

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chickens

making the best of raising cornish rock cross

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bugs

ants and aphids

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bugs

raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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dogs and cats

organic war on fleas!

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pollinators

Dale's Pollinator photos --- Add yours, name and describe them. Let's make it a catalogue

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honey bees

Holzer Style Log Bee Hive

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goats, sheep and llamas

"Backyard Dairy Goats" book

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honey bees

What type of hive would be best for Sheer Total and Utter Neglect?

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bugs

Organic bed bug control

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chickens

chicken coops/runs/tractors/paddocks/pens/etc.

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honey bees

the ultimate skiddable bee hut

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nibblers

how to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

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chickens

Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

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pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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goats, sheep and llamas

why to not raise goats

49 replies 3 3

bugs

I think permaculture insect control has failed me.

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rabbits

Best meat rabbit breed?

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critter care

Owl Decoys... do they work?

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ducks and geese

geese and small children

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butchery

If I ever teach butchery or dressing a carcass again

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bugs

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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bugs

big red neck chicken sick

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chickens

Cheapest, easiest to build, but still secure chicken tractor?

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bugs

Superworms for bioremediation of polystyrene: ideas for extending the (re)processing?

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pigs

Starting a Tropical Piggery

46 replies 10 14

ducks and geese

ducks lying down and geese nipping at them--WHY???

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chickens

Chicken winter greenhouse

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bugs

Where can I buy silkworm or silkmoths and supplies in Canada?

31 replies 1 4

rabbits

My Rabbit Hates Me

35 replies 1 3 12

chickens

Disadvantages to PVC pipe chicken or duck run? How fast does it break down?

18 replies 3 5

goats, sheep and llamas

3 month lamb with flystrike

13 replies 1 6

honey bees

Extracting honey took so much effort it may never be worth it again

32 replies 7 17

cattle

Sensitive Topic-Rancher had to put down lame Cow

22 replies 1 1 9

chickens

How to get rid of a body?

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critter care

I'm ready to scream and cuss, I'm that frustrated.

25 replies 1 2 12

cattle

Where do Cows go in Winter?

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ducks and geese

Urban market for duck eggs?

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chickens

Shooting Chickens - how to take amazing chicken photos!

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ducks and geese

Eleven Weeks Old and Laying Eggs? Did I Break My Ducks?

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turkeys

Weighing turkeys (and other poultry)

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chickens

Best Heritage Breed for Meat

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chickens

When will isa brown chickens start to lay

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dogs and cats

kitty delivery woes

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dogs and cats

Permaculture cat avoidance?

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critter care

Are Mimosa seed pods toxic?

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goats, sheep and llamas

Dairy Sheep, kicking ideas around

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dogs and cats

My dog killed my llama to protect 5 year old. What to do with dog now.

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dogs and cats

What to feed Molly the moose calf?

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fish

Biggest marine biologist in USA is from Montana

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fish

Asian carp in aquaponics and cheap dog food to feed them

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dogs and cats

A visit to Santa...

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dogs and cats

Little baby Molly

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chickens

Speculating what's wrong with this baby chick

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turkeys

Breeding turkeys?

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turkeys

Male or Female Turkey????

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cattle

Dexter Cattle discussion

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nibblers

Rat Control

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ducks and geese

Raising happy adult ducks

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pigs

Anyone run pigs in a bamboo grove?

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chickens

big red neck chicken sick

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fish

zebra mussels

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nibblers

Bone sauce for sale?

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bugs

organic war on fleas!

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honey bees

swarm catch

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honey bees

Book Scorpions as Varroa destructor control

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goats, sheep and llamas

Premire1 style feeder

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chickens

Older hens chasing the young flock

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bugs

dealing with fire ants

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dogs and cats

You know its true

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chickens

Portable electric fencing

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rabbits

Questions about doe fertility -- also anyone in W. Montana with good stock for trade?

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honey bees

Japanese Style Hives

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goats, sheep and llamas

Paddock sheep forage seed species recommendations needed

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goats, sheep and llamas

Electrifying Floofy Little Goats!

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cattle

Rotational grazing on small scale

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cattle

Protecting against animals

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horses, donkeys and mules

Fencing

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dogs and cats

Kitty Royal

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honey bees

Small Hive Beetle

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chickens

I’m surprised you “need” to buy special feed for backyard hens

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honey bees

Extracting honey took so much effort it may never be worth it again

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dogs and cats

Molly at boot camp

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rabbits

My Rabbit Hates Me

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