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Make Your Own Dog Shampoo

Clean and Deodorize Your Dog with Baking Soda

By Erin Huffstetler, About.com

Dog shampoo should clean your dog, but it shouldn't clean out your wallet at the same time. For a low-cost dog shampoo that really works, sprinkle baking soda onto your dog's coat; and rub it in with your hands. Then, follow up with a good brushing – it'll leave your dog's coat shiny, clean and odor-free.

Why This Works

Baking soda neutralizes odors, while its gritty texture grabs and removes stuck on dirt and oils.

Benefits of Shampooing with Baking Soda

* inexpensive

* no harsh chemicals to irritate skin

* fragrance-free

* neutralizes odors, rather than covering them up

* kills fleas naturally

Tips

1) Use to eliminate wet dog odors

2) Use for a quick freshening between baths

3) Mix baking soda with water to create a wet shampoo

More Frugal Living Quick Tips

Part IV:

Melissa S. wrote: "For the woman with the poor dog: This info actually came from a ferret web site. I figure that if it's safe enough for a small animal to ingest, it's safe enough for a dog. Hope this helps.

Magellan's Soup (from Carla A.):

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1 2.5 ounce jar Gerber's Bananas (1st Foods)

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1 2.5 ounce jar Heinz Chicken, Turkey, or Lamb (make sure the baby food has no onion, garlic, or celery, which spoils the flavor for ferrets)

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2 rounded Tablespoons Gerber's Rice Cereal for Baby

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1 rounded Tablespoon Ensure Supplement Powder for humans (or use the liquid Ensure)

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1 5.5 ounce can Hill's Prescription Diet Feline/Canine A/D

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Water

Blend all and add water to desired consistency. Serve warm. Requires refrigeration. Use within 48 hours. Magellan (a > 4 pound male) ate this amount in 2 days. This recipe is very palatable to ferrets with stomach problems.

Mathis Ferret Soup (from Christine M.):

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1 15 ounce can Science Diet Feline Growth

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15 ounces Chicken Broth

Put in blender and mix until smooth. Serve warm. Requires refrigeration. This consistency works well when force feeding. Gradually thicken the recipe (add less chicken broth) as the ferret begins to eat on its own. Return to the ferret's regular diet gradually. This recipe has saved many ferret lives.

A/D Soup:

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1 5.5 ounce can Hill's Prescription Diet Canine/Feline A/D

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Water

Blend A/D with water to desired consistency. Serve warm. Requires refrigeration. A/D liquefies so this formula works very well in a syringe.

Duck Soup (from Ann D., LIFE):

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1 can Sustacal (8 ounces; it comes in a larger size too)

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1 can water (8 ounces)

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2 scoops puppy or kitten weaning formula - optional

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4 ounces dry kitten or ferret food, soaked in enough water to cover and soften it completely

Mix thoroughly. We always nuke it for them to the temperature of baby formula. We serve about 4 fluid ounces at a time twice a day for maintenance; if your little guys eat too much and you feel they are getting fat, you can increase the amount of water. We have tried increasing the amount of dry food, but if it gets too thick some of them won't eat it. This formula also freezes well -- the Sustacal must be used within 48 hours if left only in the fridge.

T.C. wrote: " ALWAYS ask your vet for advice on diets: For a sick puppy or kitten try small amounts of: warm chicken broth, baby food meat: lamb, chicken ,beef...., rice cooked with white meat chicken.. You can cook the rice and the chicken in the same pan. One cup of rice, 2 cups of water, I cut up the chicken breast before cooking it, them finely mince it in a food processor. Can substitute ground beef. Can also be cooked with the rice. Gatorade mixed with broth or Pedialite works.

Part III:

Dale wrote: "Whenever our dogs have upset stomachs, or surgery, they often do not feel like eating. Since I was a child, our family has always had the same remedy, and I have never seen a dog turn it down. Brown 1 lb of ground beef, drain well and rinse under cool water. Cook 1 cup of rice (I use instant) with no salt or butter. When done, rinse well. Mix rice with browned beef and feed to your pet. This should make several meals for a Dachshund. Rice and beef is very easy to digest and they love it. As she gets used to eating again, you can begin mixing in her regular dog food. Good luck!"

Lynn wrote: "I have 3 Dachshunds, one of them is 12 years old and has quite a few missing teeth . I buy veal, turkey, etc baby foods and mix them in with her (Solid Gold) Hundchen Flocken 1-800-364-4863 will give you distributors in your area. I have been feeding my Dogs this since they were puppies and we do not go to the Vet. Try it you will like it."

Lynn wrote again saying: "Hi, I go to the health food store and buy what they call soup beans in a can and mix it with Italian style tomatoes, sometimes I add non-fat cottage cheese .My 3 Dachshunds love it. You might also try cooking some oatmeal ., rice cakes ,or low fat, low salt treats from health food store. Lynn. P.S. mine love peanut butter to. also cheese. Really they will eat anything."

Petra's Mom wrote: "I do not have any recipes, but my Labrador retriever has peanut butter on whole wheat bread every morning for breakfast. It is very nutritious and she loves it! She also likes baked sweet potatoes mashed with a little milk, as well as white potatoes. Both are loaded with vitamins and minerals. I also fix Cream of Wheat made with milk, or ripe bananas for her when her stomach is upset. We have also had success giving her baby food -- the meat flavors, like chicken, beef, and turkey. She also loves chicken soup, especially chickarina. I hope this helps."

Holding wrote: "It's not food, but for a healthier treat, you can get the healthy canned food from your vet, cut it into bite size pieces & bake it. I had to for an overweight dog & she loved them."

Helen wrote: Very often they don't want to eat after surgery for several days. When I had a dog that I was showing and couldn't keep weight on them I made what we called fat balls. Just mix grounded beef with peanut butter and hand feed. The peanut butter really won't hurt them. We very often worry when they won't eat, but when they get hungry they WILL EAT. Hope this is helpful."

Part II:

M.W. wrote: "I don't have any pet recipes, however, when all else fails with my 3 elderly doxies, I prepare macaroni & cheese for them (as well as myself). It isn't a long term solution, but does offer good short term nourishment."

M.K.W. sent all of these recipes: "Treats for Dogs - Here are a good number of them. The first one here is esp. healthy. We have three adopted Jack Russell Terriers, and if they won't eat we WORRY! I've found when they won't eat ANYTHING else, they'll almost always eat raw calf liver. Too much is not good, but a little is wonderful for them. The doggie owner from your forum shouldn't freak out just yet - her dog will probably recover quickly! Please send her my best wishes for a speedy doggy recovery!

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Doggie Num-Nums

Ingredients:

4 4-ounce chicken breasts

½ cup cheese of your choice

½ cup chicken liver (low amount for health purposes)

1 tablespoon raw garlic (dogs prefer raw over granulated)

1 tablespoon bone meal

½ cup rolled oats

½ cup parsley (if fresh alfalfa is available it is much better for the dog)

½ tablespoon gelatin (optional)

Method: Pulse all ingredients in a food processor until smooth. Do not over mix. Put 1 cup rolled oats in a large bowl. Using 1 tablespoon of the mix at a time, put into oats and roll into balls. Lay each ball flat on a cookie sheet and bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until firm.

-Remove and let cool.

-Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Humane Society Recipe

From the Peninsula Humane Society, San Mateo, Ca

1/2 cup cornmeal

6 tbsp Oil

2 cups whole wheat flour

2/3 cup water or broth

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together well. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with cooky cutter. Bake 35-40 mins, let cool and store in tightly sealed container.

People and Dog Biscuits

You Need:

Large bowl

small bowl

rolling pin

3 1/2C flour

2 C rye flour

1 C corn meal

2 C cracked wheat

1/2 C dry milk

4 t. salt

1 envelope active dry yeast

1/4 C very warm water

2 to 3 C chicken broth or other liquid

1 large egg, beaten w/ 1 T. milk

cookie sheets

This recipe is for, dare I say, people AND dogs! It makes about 11 1/2 dozen 3" x 3/4" biscuits, or a number of other shapes.

1. mix flours, cracked wheat, corn meal, dry milk, and salt in large bowl

2. sprinkle yeast over warm water and stir in small bowl

3. add yeast and 2 cups of broth to dry ingredients

4. mix well with hands--dough will be VERY stiff

5. if necessary, add a little more broth

6. roll out dough on floured surface to 1/4" thickness and cut into

desired shape(s)

7. place on ungreased cookie sheets

8. brush with egg/milk mixture

9. bake 45 minutes at 300 degrees

10. turn off oven and leave in oven overnight

(substitute water left from veges for broth if you like)

"Already Have Ingredients" Recipe

Most people should have almost all of the ingredients at home. It does

call for baby food but you could make your own.

2 3/4 C. whole wheat flour

1/2 C. powdered milk

1 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

1 egg

6 Tbs. veg.oil

8-10 Tbs. water

2 small jars strained baby food (beef, chicken, lamb, or liver)

Mix all ingredients together and knead for 3 min. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick. Use a dog bone shaped cookie cutter, and place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 min. Makes approximately 2 dozen doggie biscuits.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Here is a recipe for homemade doggie biscuits --

Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups flour

1 1/3 cups cornmeal

6 Tablespoons peanut butter

1 cup applesauce (with one batch, you can puree a regular raw apple)

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup sunflower or sesame seeds, optional

1 egg for basting

Mix all dry ingredients. Add peanut butter, milk, eggs and applesauce.

Mix well until dough is firm. Let stand for 15-20 minutes. While

waiting, set oven at 350 degrees. Roll out dough on floured surface to a 1/4" thickness. Cut into shapes with cookie cutter. Baste with egg and then sprinkle with seeds (if desired). Bake 30 to 40 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Makes approximately 4 dozen biscuits, depending on the size you cut them.

Crunchy Biscuits

5 T bouillon - any flavor dissolved in 3 C boiling water, or 3 C meat drippings (bring to a boil before adding other ingredients)

2 C oatmeal

1/2 C oil

1 C wheat or oat bran

1/2 C honey (optional)

2 eggs

6 - 8 C white or wheat flour

Add oatmeal, oil, bran and honey to liquid while still hot. Carefully add eggs so they don't cook in lumps. Mix in flour gradually until dough is stiff. Roll out. Cut w/ cookie cutters. Bake on cookie sheet at 325 degrees for one hour. Turn off oven, allow biscuits to remain in oven over night. They will be hard and crunchy.

Store in paper bag, or cardboard box. NOT in an air tight container.

Two Favorite Recipes

Biscuits for dogs

1 3/4 cups canned dog food (2 16 oz. cans)

1 cup unprocessed bran

1 cup old fashioned oatmeal

1/2 vegetable oil

1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. In a medium bowl mash the dog food and remove all lumps. Mix in the bran and oatmeal. Slowly add the oil, mixing to a consistency that is easy to mold into patties or roll and cut into bone shapes. Add more oil if the mixture is too dry.

2. arrange biscuits on and ungreased baking sheet and bake for 3 1/2 hours, or until hard. cool; store in a covered canister. If

refrigerated, the treats will keep for about 1 month. Makes 16 medium size biscuits.

Homemade Dog Treats

3 1/4 cups unbleached flour

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 cup Rye flour

2 cups bulgar (cracked wheat)

1 cup cornmeal

1/2 cup instant nonfat dry milk

4 tsp salt

1 envelope active dry yeast ( or 2 1/4 teaspoons)

1/4 cup warm water

3 cups chicken broth

1 egg slightly beaten with 1 tsp of milk

1. Turn oven on to 300 degrees. Mix the first 7 ingredients with a wooden spoon in a large bowl.

2. Dissolve yeast thoroughly in warm water (110 - 115 degrees) in glass measuring cup. Add to dry ingredients.

3. Add chicken broth to flower mixture. Stir until dough forms.

4. Roll our dough until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut out bone shapes from dough. Place on greased cookie sheets.

5. Brush dough with egg glaze.

6. Bake bones for 45 minutes. Turn oven off. Biscuits should remain overnight to harden. Makes 30 large bones.

Added tip: turn a can into a bone shape. Cut the top and bottom from a tuna can. Using two pair of pliers shape it into a dog bone cutter!

Marc Morrone's Recipe

FLEA HATERS' DOG BISCUITS

Makes about 5 dozen bone biscuits

1 cup flour

1/4 cup wheat germ

1/4 cup brewer's yeast (available at health-food stores)

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons canola oil

1 clove garlic, chopped medium

1/2 cup chicken stock plus 3 tablespoons for basting

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Mix flour, wheat germ, brewer's yeast, and salt together in a medium bowl.

In a mixing bowl, combine oil and garlic. Alternately add 1/2 cup

chicken stock and flour mixture in 3 parts; mix until well combined.

Knead about 2 minutes by hand on floured surface; dough will be sticky.

2. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough out about 3/8 inch thick.

Cut out bone shapes; place on prepared baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes, rotate baking sheet, and baste with remaining 3 tablespoons chicken stock. Bake 10 minutes longer. Turn off oven, leaving oven door closed.

Leave pan in oven for 1 1/2 hours longer.

Dog Biscuits and More Dog Food Recipes

Gloria wrote: "Please send me some of your recipes for pets. I have 9 year old Dachound. She had surgery last Friday and will not eat anything but peanut butter. That is not good for her, and I am so concerned I will try anything. She does eat her treats when she goes "potty", but that is not good either. She IS drinking water. Thanks."

Responses Part II, Part III, Part IV

Part I:

ShadoeRose sent in these recipes:

Chocolate Carob Puppy Cookies

2 cups of whole wheat flour

1 tablespoon of baking powder

1 cup of carob chips

1 cup of peanut butter, can be smooth or chunky

1 cup of milk, can be low fat

2 eggs

1/4 cup of honey

1.1. Combine the flour and baking powder in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl combine the peanut butter, milk, eggs, and honey. Mix well until combined.

2.Add the milk mixture to the dry ingredients and mix with a hand beater. After the ingredients are mixed add the carob chips, just until combined.

3.Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Using teaspoons or if you have large puppies, a tablespoon, drop the cookies on to an ungreased cookie sheet. Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes. When they are done remove from the

cookie sheet, after standing about 1 minute, and place on a cookie rack to completely cool.

Carob Cornered Crunchies

2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour

1 egg

1/4 cup applesauce

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 beef bouillon -- or chicken

1/2 cup hot water

1 tablespoon honey

1 tablespoon molasses

1 cup carob bar -- about

Mix all ingredients together until well blended. Knead dough two minutes on a lightly floured surface. Roll to 1/4" thickness. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 30 minutes in a 300 degree oven. Cool.

Melt carob chips in microwave or saucepan. Dip cool biscuits in carob or lay on a flat surface and brush carob over the biscuits with a pastry brush. Let cool.

Cheese Bone Dog Cookies

2 cups Un-sifted all-purpose flour

1 1/4 cups Shredded cheddar cheese

2 cloves Garlic, finely chopped

1/2 cup Vegetable oil

4 1/2 tablespoons Water (up to 5 tbs.)

Preheat oven to hot (400 degrees).

Make a cardboard pattern of a dog bone, 4 inches long or use a dog-bone cookie cutter.

Combine flour, cheese, garlic and vegetable oil in container of food processor.

Cover, whirl until mixture is consistency of coarse meal. With machine running, slowly add water until mixture forms a ball.

Divide dough into 12 equal pieces. Roll out each piece to 1/2" thickness. Cut out bones. Transfer to ungreased cookie sheet. Do not re-roll scraps.

Bake in preheated hot oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until bottom of cookies are lightly browned. Carefully transfer bones to wire rack to cool completely.

Refrigerate in airtight container

Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits

1 1/2 cups Water

1/2 cup Oil

2 Eggs

3 tablespoons Peanut Butter

2 tsp. Vanilla

2 cups Flour

1/2 cup Cornmeal

1/2 cup Oats

Blend liquid ingredients together. Whisk dry ingredients together and mix into wet mixture to form a ball of dough. Roll out and shape. Put onto a non-stick cookie tray. Cook 20 minutes at 400 F. Turn off oven and allow the biscuits to cool in oven

until crisp and hard.

Peanut Butter Biscuits

1 cup flour

1/2 cup milk

2 Tbs. peanut butter

Grated parmesan cheese (optional)

1 tsp Baking powder

1 egg white

1 Tbs. Chicken juice

Mix flour and milk until lumpy. Add Peanut butter and Chicken juice. Mix parmesan cheese with first 4 ingredients. Add egg white. Mix well or until it has the consistency of pancake batter. Add baking powder. Pour onto greased cookie sheet in

Doorknob-sized blobs. Cook until golden brown. Serve cool.

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Your Type is

ENTJ

Extraverted 44% not ture! ok, I admit it, I lied!

Intuitive 75% naw.. just a good guesser!

Thinking 12% I am not a thinker? no! cause you all fried my last 2 brain cells out! the kids did the other 97 in! I got 1 left..saving it for a rainy day.

Judging 56% can I change the word Judging to Evaluating?

Rational Portrait of the Fieldmarshal (ENTJ)

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is marshaling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in the Fieldmarshal. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal's intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, they simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that they have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are - to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field - medicine, law, business, education, government, the military - Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshal, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations - and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

Hillary Clinton, Napoleon, Margret Thatcher, Carl Sagan, Bill Gates, Golda Meir, Edward Teller, George C. Marshall are examples of Rational Fieldmarshals.

kelly,

I was thinking, I have cookie cutters that are flowers, using those, making a nice white lemon flavor frosting on the back side of one cookie and making a sandwich cookie.

What fun these will be for a summer BBQ... summer flower cookies, nice and yellow and fun.

did you know that tuna packed in oil actually stores longer.

Hearty Beef Stew

1lb.noodles

2. large cans Dinty Moore beef stew

2 table Spoons Sour cream .

Cook noodles as directed drain, add butter, mix well. heat soup add to noodles, stir in sour cream

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just trying to link all the yeasts together.

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The latest on Darlene...

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Y'ALL ARE GONNA GET ME IN TROUBLE...

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The saga continues...

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Chicken thoughts...

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Raising Ducks?

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Buff Orpington's?

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Chicks

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Brooding chicks

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Volunteers? Butchering pictorials?

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I got chickens!! – wing clipping

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Weasels??

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Chickens

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Here chick, chick, chick....

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Cute Country Babies

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Question about chickens and dogs

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DO NOT!!!!!

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chick sexing

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Chicken Information

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Sick chick

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Chicken varieties

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These links are from Mrs. Survival to help others find information quickly when needed.

I hope others will post the links here when a new poultry thread is started.

Goat taming

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feeding livestock on vacation

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goat kids

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goats wasting hay

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=1#Post224972

raising goats 101 (Darlene!)

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=1#Post223248

(Darlene) guess I am a Mama again

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=1#Post222592

help with goats (more on poison plants)

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=1#Post221937

critters!!!! chickies! and a goat question

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=3#Post194818

goat cart

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=2#Post210506

goat milk replacer

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=0#Post229253

how does one start with goats?

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=8#Post153249

goats!

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...e=11#Post119623

goats vs cows

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=15#Post91231

horn removal

Horns on goats is a personal choice. I prefer to disbud between day 3-7.

there are those rare times when you purchase a goat with horns but need to remove them, this if for you.

http://kinne.net/latehrn1.htm

http://kinne.net/latehrn2.htm

http://www.greatgoats.com/articles/dehorning_text.html

butchering goats

http://homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=112807

milk goats

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=20#Post63658

My goat acts sick

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=20#Post65256

abcess on goats – CL

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=29#Post24344

goats – pregnancy

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=29#Post21795

feeding

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=29#Post20502

goats milking

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=29#Post20814

goats hoof trimming

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=29#Post20412

bad tasting milk

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=30#Post20065

goats milk

http://www.mrssurvival.com/forums/ubbthrea...ge=30#Post17760

I went through all the pages and as of 7/20/08 here are all the goat related topics I found...currently there are 33 pages in Country Homestead.

These links are from Mrs. Survival to help others find information quickly when needed.

I hope others will post the links here when a new goat thread is started.

as time goes on it will be harder and harder for me to keep up with everything here.

during milking nothing replaces good alfalfa and grain, BOSS (black oily SunFlower Seeds), though there is two trains of though on molasses... some say yes others say no. I Like to give them 4-way or COB with Molasses. I don't see it any different then giving them sugar coated cereal!

this mixture (and you can add soy and beet pulp, and other items to the mix) will create a nice sweet milk.

Letting the goats browse on what ever scrub will, in my opinion cause the milk to take on the flavors of the feed they are eating. If you start out drinking milk from scrub eating goats how would you know that there is any other flavor?

It costs nothing to let them browse, it is expensive to get in 4-way, BOSS and alfalfa. Free feeding hay, and a pound of 4-way, a cup of BOSS (half cup of everything else). And this should be fed 2 times a day... at each milking.

Now everyone has their own formula, each area has their brands and availabilities of certain grains. You will have to decide what works best for you.. and maybe it is just letting them browse freely.

If SHTF, I ran out of grain (heaven forbid), mine would be browsing on some of the worst tasting milk making forage around! Needless to say, I wouldn't be drinking the milk but rather raising for meat.

lemon blossom cookies sound great! wonder if I can adapt them to cookie cutters?

Cricket what kind of beans?