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    Post & Beam Barn Contractors.

    I'm facing a new barn build, either this fall or next spring ... I'm getting quotes for 70 bucks US a square foot for a 4 stall horse barn. As it's turning out ... new beams and mortising seem to be...
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    Re: How long for new horses to settle down?

    SoOunds to me like 'they' need to sort some things out themselves. If they were with all those other animals and weren't the Alpha, then they will have to establish one or the other.

    My theory is...
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    Re: Horses outdoors only?

    I'm gonna buck the trend here.

    In the natural world, wild horses do not have barns. But they do protect themselves with natural shelter. Further, the herd itself due to it's size serves to...
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    Re: I\'m eating blackberries and apricots already.

    I've got several mullberry trees, both Red and White. The white berries are preferable for their higher sugar content. The Red ones however are more plentiful.

    We're making another batch of...
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    Re: Weed-b-gone & horses

    That's a bad combo. I personally would still be nervous about grazing them a year later frankly.

    Those products are a big mixed bag of serious chemicals and their degradable shelf-life would be...
  6. Thread: Salsa anyone?

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    Re: Salsa anyone?

    Bird ... re meat ... particularly skirt steak ... the cut (it's a cut of the diaphram I'm told) is often used in fajitas ... but it is a favorite of the French.

    Aside from filet, it is my favorite...
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    Re: Time to play \"Name That Plant\" again

    Tom ... here's what I can tell you (not much?). We have lots of phlox and if your picture IS phlox, then it's a completely different subspecies. Our phlox is more tightly clumped, shorter stalked...
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    Re: Exotic bird in my yard?

    Pat .. Yes, I was thinking about the parakeets, cockatees, type birds yes. A number of year round tropic birds adopt a seasonal migration but stay within the tropic bands ... e.g. west indies to...
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    Re: Texas Dewberries (wild/native)

    Up here in nu yawk state we call em wild black raspberries. At least that's what they look like.
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    Re: The hearthmate has died ...

    It's on the list. Nowhere near the top either. How long is your list? /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
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    Re: The hearthmate has died ...

    Gary ... no need for boxes ... they have a plenty of suitable nesting sites, so many that I doubt they would use the boxes. Sumpin else prolly would though.

    If she had survived, and say actually...
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    The hearthmate has died ...

    We've been in our historic homesite for over 3 years now. On the very first Sat. evening spent there ... I heard some strange sounds coming from the firebox in the dining parlor fireplace.
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    Re: Exotic bird in my yard?

    In addition to an escapee, the Carolinas became home to some inadvertently introduced species of parakeet sized birds.

    While tropical species often do have micro-migratory behavior, they generally...
  14. Thread: Spring Babies

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    Re: Spring Babies

    Gary, we bottle fed our 2 pygmy babies and they lived in the dining room for 4 months. Sometimes, it seemed that they would wait for a walk outside before peeing ... but

    I've read of people in...
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    Need help finding a buzzer ...

    My old home has a couple of old servent's buzzers. These are chair rail mounted buttons that sound a pair of buzzers installed in a typical electrical junction box in the kitchen.

    A while back, I...
  16. Thread: Spring is near...

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    Re: Spring is near...

    Sorry, many of those magnificent birds winter in the NE all year. They sure can make a pile of dust outta an old dead tree though.
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    Re: Breeding pigmy goats

    The general concensus on pygmy females and breeding is to wait untill their 2nd year.

    The mortality rate (for both kids and moma) apparently drops significantly if you wait till the does pass 20...
  18. Thread: Horse -swollen leg

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    Re: Horse -swollen leg

    Hmmm ... question ... are these animals shod? The first thing anyone keeping horses should do if they suspect a lower extremity injury, especially if it's not readily apparent is to check for...
  19. Thread: Tree row ideas...

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    Re: Tree row ideas...

    Our lower ny tree of choice for this purpose was blue spruce. They grow 2-4 feet a year. That's fast.
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    Re: Wainscoting & Router Bits

    If using the router to dress these rails etc. will give you added satisfaction, then so beit.

    That being said, you'll probably save a lot of time and effort by using the fabricated trim runs. You...
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    Re: Salsa Recipes...Make \'em hot!

    John, you want hot? Stop by my garden and I'll toss you a few of my Habaneros.

    They will make you weep. /forums/images/icons/blush.gif
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    Re: Who let the cats out?? Hawk..

    Don't tell me .. lemme guess, the predator was a 'yote.
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    Re: Fly Spray for horses

    We've tried everything it seems. Nuttin woyks. Manure management is the only recourse on this acreage.
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