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We just had a dutch door made for the entrance between our kitchen and mudroom. I had a contractor friend do it for me. It was jsut a 9-light wood slab from Lowes. He cut it below the window and...

Thanks, that helped. I followed that thread and jumped over to another one that was similar and found all I needed. Appreciate the memory jog!
-Frank /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

Hello all,

I know I read a post on this subject, but after spending a couple of hours searching and not finding it, I thought I'd ask outright.
Background: We have a small building on a site...

One of our local farmers sells from his house and he puts a label on the carton that says:
Fresh Brown Eggs
Mixed-Unclassified
No Drugs, hormones or chemicals
Biologically Friendly - Loose-housed...

Our Guineas and Chickens "live" together in mutual toleration. (except for the one guinea chick who thinks she's a chicken). They will generally leave each other alone except for feeding time,...

We built a little coop for ours. Nesting boxes, heat lamp, water, feed...the whole enchilada. They prefer to sit in the rafters of the barn with the sheep and horses...

Here are some links for more information:
www.guineafowl.com
Guinea Fowl Breeders Association
Poultry Pages-Guinea
The Guinea Farm

Frank

As far as I know, they eat ticks and any other bug they can find. We have eaten the eggs, but they are much smaller than the chicken eggs, plus they like to build nests in a remote place (like the...

We love ours. Yes, they are noisy, but only real bad when they are startled. They are our "guard hens". As for roosting, we find they roost in the trees in the summer and in the rafters of the...

We have raised Guineas for the past three years. It all depends on the flock. Most of the time, they will attack the new chicks and not let them into the flock. In fact, we have one adult hen that...

They just want everything to look like an issue of "Country Living" magazine. You know: A beautiful yard filled with flowers, a small dog or cat on the wrought-iron chair, a gentle breeze blowing in...

Dave,

I think it is. when I read the post, it said it was made on 11/22/02 at 6:49 am. Now, near your picture is a "registered" date of 9/13/02, telling me that you have been a member of CBN for...

Haybine,
Let me restate my original reply. You could certainly raise some sheep for wool (and meat and fun, etc) for your personal use. The folks we got our ewes from do that. They take the...

haybine,

I raise sheep for meat and not wool for a couple of reasons:
1. Since I have a couple of briar bushes on the proerty, the sheep are attracted to them and the fleece is now full of...

Forgot to mention that the place used to be named "Bare-Bottom" Acres. Took talking to some of the neighbors to find out why. Turns out the large truck driver and his wife (both up in years)...

When we moved we had to store some of our matresses for about 6 months. We found a zippered, plastic cover that was made for each size. You put the matress in, zip it up and it's done. We did not...

I think I remember my dad having a phone out near the pool when I was a kid. I think the jack was in an outdoor type of box (kind of like the sealed elecrical outlets for outdoors)

Maybe check...

We have 5 black walnut trees (in the central Shenandoah Valley). A neighbor comes by each year and gather them up. He puts them on his driveway and runs them over with a pickup. Hulled, he now...

Here are some real esoteric links for those really interested in some technical reading:
What is 'unfreezable water'?
Freezing Water Myth
Physics of Freezing
Theoretical Aspects of the...

I like the golf ball idea, I hadn't thought og that. We have tried leaving one egg out in the boxes and marking it with an "X" so that we knew which one it was and could leave it there. That seemed...

I wish I knew the answer to this one. Ours lay in the hay loft, on the ground, in the sheep pen, oh, and sometimes in the laying baskets! A friend told me that it is important for the laying boxes...

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Our kids are 11, 7, 5 & 3 and we homeschool. At one time we were running all around about every day to different...

Someone built a house near ours (luckily, near the road, where we are about 1/2 mile back) and decided the country was too dark, so they had the electric company install a street light on the pole...

With mine, you program in the speed dial numbers without going "off hook". For 911, many phones already have that number programmed in to a special button or speed dial number. It's almost easier...

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-Frank