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Wish I could find where they are getting in. I've plugged holes and plugged holes. Now I keep sticky traps out all the time with a dab of peanut butter in the center. I catch most of them that way. Just to be sure, I keep solid bait bars out too. I don't have any inside pets that could eat the bars or poisoned mice.

Be sure to put some kind of gripper fabric or application on the soles. Those things can slide all over the place if you wear them on hard surfaced floors.

There used to be an option to get a page in html instead of pdf

So sorry your daughter is having to go thru this. Praying for her now.

These are fresh from my own free range hens. I wouldn't eat a store bought egg, raw OR cooked.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/how-to-grow-organic-apples-without-any-kind-of-spray-or-pesticide/#EPiSGBStOwkvjI6M.01

Excellent advice. Probably should save it to your survival manuals.

2 frozen bananas

1 fresh raw egg

1/2 tsp vanilla syrup

pinch salt

1 cup raw milk

put it in the blender and whirl till the bananas are smooth

My Jr does are nowhere close to 70# at 7 months. They seem about par for the course for this area though. Very rarely see really large goats down here. Actually one jr is probably close to 60# cause I can't pick her up. But I can lift all the others. They are growing well and healthy. I think months and months of triple digits sets them back a bit. It was really super hot again this yr. We are only now staying below 95 most days.

No kid yet! She IS pg, Her pregnancy indicator is sticking straight out. I'm milking her, about a pint once a day. Not colostrum yet. Some of my does bagged up a month ahead last yr, but this one didn't. I can't figure what is up with her. LOL

LOL, I only have 16 goats right now and the buck is on furlough to a friend's farm so he doesn't breed the junior does. They are his daughters, but mainly they are still too young and small for me to be comfortable breeding them. Looking for a junior buck for them, but not really looking very hard. The 7 sr does are bred already. Start kidding in Jan except for Pony and Heaven knows WHAT she is doing, I sure don't.

HI!!!

I wouldn't be surprised if some of my neighbors here wrote some of that! LOL Nabal next door is skeered of dragonflies. He thinks they bite. LOL

will drive you crazy........

Ligs went three days ago. Tonight we have mucous. Won't be long now. She doesn't seem to be in active labor and can't hardly tell she's dropped, but she is a tall, long and deep doe and muscular. I think it is a single again.

Do you keep a goat in your fridge?

They built a fire in the AIRPLANE???? OH MY!!

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/hooker87.html

I won't copy/paste as this is copyrighted.

He is basically saying that he takes fresh manure (horse, cow, poultry) and forms it into bricks with a mold he made. Dries the bricks and uses them for fire wood. He says a brick will burn twice as long as the same size chunk of seasoned oak.

He saves all the ash in drums and spreads it on the garden which also receives things like dried grass, dry leaves, all the other stuff you would compost. He said he did test plots and the first yr the plot with the ashes did the same as the plot with manure as fertilizer and the plot with conventional fertilizer, however, starting the second yr the plot with ashes began to outperform the other two plots, increasing in production each yr.

Find out if he can handle earplugs or a headset. It used to calm Bethany when she could just put the headset on and listen to some quiet music. If the group setting is too loud and boisterous it can be very upsetting. She never could deal with people just milling around and making random movements and noise. She'd start screaming and crying and have to be taken out.

Well, I can contribute my camping/hiking info for your book, Mt Rider! I pretty much have it at basic pack under 25# then 15# of food and water. That about maxes me out on carrying and it doesn't allow for setting up a permanent camp. It is for getting from here to there with possibility of resupply every 7 days or so. Might could stretch it to 10 days, but how many people can realistically carry 40# or more? I am accustomed to fairly heavy work here on the farm, however, I don't do it all day, most days, and I have spells where I can't do much at all. I'm planning on building up my walking muscles with training after the heat finally breaks, but if I had to set out right this minute I know I couldn't walk many miles in a day. If it is super summer here, I won't get far at all. That is just the way it is. Add daughter to the mix and we will be doing good to get down the driveway to the road, a bit over 1/4 mile.

If you are foraging, you aren't traveling very far, very fast. You really have to do one or the other. Camp and forage or pack it up and move.

I now have two BOBs, but only because of preparing for my trek. LOL

I know if daughter is with me, walking or camping is totally out. So it will be hotel or friend's home and since family absconded and my closest (distance from me wise) friend just lost her home (ex husband quit making payments, and she didn't have enough income) I don't have anybody very close to run to. So it will have to be hotel. Basically that BOB is set up like a weekend trip bag. No real survival gear.

If it were just myself, I can camp and hike a bit (if it isn't triple digit highs) and manage, but I won't be fishing, and I won't be building a wilderness shelter or doing much foraging. Not here at any rate. Too easy to expend more energy trying to find something to eat than you actually get out of the stuff you find. I never caught a fish in my life, and believe me, I've tried. I can carry enough food for 10 days, afer that I will need resupply.

However, it is highly unlikely I would be alone without daughter unless something happened that destroyed our home and she was fatally injured. In that case, I wouldn't likely to have a surviving BOB to worry with and if I survived the accident, would probably have to be hauled off in an ambulance. So I guess it doesn't matter if I have the fancy camping BOB or not.

Anything that left the two of us in the situation of needing to camp would probably have destroyed our home.

People who insist you have to have a ton of camping gear to survive, well they just don't know everything, do they?

Not yet, but I can feel it/them moving when I play "bump the baby". LOL She hasn't dropped yet and ligs are firm.

Many times death is a release.

I hope the family tension can be relaxed a bit this time and hope you have a safe trip.

Thank you, hon. I shouldn't complain though, I did want this one goat bred this season, just not so early.

Definitely a complication! I was planning on drying everyone off by mid november so I would have a chance at getting off this farm for a bit. I don't have anyone who will take care of a milking doe but I do have someone who could watch the place and feed for me. So I'll have to leave any kids on her. I dislike having dam raised kids, they are never as easy to manage as bottle raised as they don't have the same level of trust for their human caregivers. Even if I skipped my little vaca, which I desperately need, if she had a single I couldn't keep it all by itself. Twins would keep each other company. I don't want to sell her kids this yr. Hoping for a doeling from her, but if she has a buckling I want him for a companion for his father.

And just to make life more interesting, one of the does, Pony, is acting like she may have sneaked an unseasonal breeding and could kid any time now, or not. She was dry and she suddenly bagged up. She is a large doe like her grandam, Glennis and never really looked pg last time with a single large buckling. She kidded in March of this yr. Glennis never shows at all with a single, barely with twins and not hugely with triplets. So, I am on kid watch from now, until............... and of course she has suddenly got very clingy as well.......