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Here in Arizona, if you haven't heard, Child Protective Services was so screwed up that it was finally disbanded, rebranded and refunded. Supposedly, this new one will be better. But they push against things that are completely legal here, like physical discipline. Not only is it completely...

You sound like my parents! They've adopted four kids already, and are fostering with the intent to adopt two more. They are all Hispanic, while my parents are as white as the sandy beaches of Bora Bora. My eldest daughter is half Hispanic, my middle daughter is a quarter Hispanic and a...

Perchie, I was referring to my daughters having a hayday playing on the ribbon! They've picked up my old-school play habits. You know, tetherball, climbing on top of the playground equipment, flipping off the tops of swings... Stuff most of today's kids are terrified of. Heck, when she was 18...

The goats were hysterical! Thank you for that. Now my mind's racing. You know how much fun my daughters would have?!?

They do not have cyanide in them. They have cyanoacrylate, which may offgas to a very, very small amount of cyanide gas, depending on the specific molecular structure of the cyanoacrylate used. There is a huge difference there. If you check the information for both DermaBond and New-Skin, they...

Nope, doesn't burns at all and heals quite nicely. I've used it a few times tending myself. It's great in a SHTF bag!!! Right after it came out, I compared ingredients between New-Skin and regular superglue. They were identical. The difference was New-Skin was made in a sterile plant. I just...

Willow, I don't know-how yours has been overall, but we've had a huge roller coaster of a winter. It never hit really gold, but stayed on the warmer side. It was constantly fluctuating so bad that our fruit trees never fully lost there leaves and have bloomed several times already. If your...

There ya go, Bee, an answer to all your problems. Start an apprenticeship program. The Bee Better Homestead introduces... Long hours, hard labor, and no 20th Century ammenities. Detox from the human life...

Rocket mass heaters and rocket stoves operate under the same principles. The difference is that the heaters have a secondary container surrounding the exhaust, usually a 55-gallon steel drum, that is heavily insulated inside. The air heats the metal drum and gives off large amounts of radiant...

Regardless of whether you have a breaker box or fuse box, the principle should be the same. You are required to have some sort of isolating mechanism that will physically disconnect your house from the power line. On my old house, there were two extremely large fuses that were outside inline...

I'm quickly getting our family headed that way, but so far we haven't reached it yet. I've been canning fairly extensively the last six months and have a good selection put up. We still use the freezer a lot, though, for our larger whole meats like chicken breasts and steak. And I'm not...

And this is why homesteading is so vitally important! I know, I'm preaching to the choir, but it amazes me how many people I see and hear about that has to stop their entire life for some bad weather. A simple, well built fireplace, wood burning stove (or better yet, a rocket mass heater with...

Just 110* over there, heck, that's a winter vacation here! 'Course, I'll take our 120* dry heat over 80* with a high humidity any day. I hate humidity. Which brings up an interesting thought. Everyone always talks about chickens suffering in the cold and the heat, but I don't think I've...

@ChocolateMouse , that's always a concern if you are raising in cages. But since we free-range, I think it's drastically different. The fermented feed is such a small portion of their daily intake, I'm not concerned about it at all. I go through an estimated six to eight cups of fermented...

Umm, just some photos of my large backyard. I don't have cages or anything like that for them. They drink from the poultry nipples that I connected directly to my water main. I'll see if I can get some photos to post tonight when I feed them. It's quite the sight, surrounding the food dish...

They just stay outside. I haven't looked for the new nesting areas for the recent additions, but our two initial rabbits found and built their above-ground burrow underneath our oleander trees, at a corner where the brick fence meets the end of a plaster bench near our beehive fireplace. When...

I saw you all were discussing the rabbits a few pages ago, but I missed out on it. I've been so busy trying to install our tankless water heater after our old unit started leaking really bad, then dealing with my wife's upcoming knee surgery, I just haven't had time... We free range our...

That second option sounds much, much better and more likely! Lmao! I may have to add that to my "to-try" list when I'm sick. Got the amounts of ingredients or was it "a pinch of this and a dash of that?"

Quote: Have you tried checking your local Craig's List free section for dirt? Mine always, and I do mean always, has huge amounts of it available, especially during the coming months where people are having pools built. You can find a lot of clean dirt that way. There is more manual labor...

Wow, it sounds like you scored big time this year! My problem is that most of the things I get around not practical, much like the ones you mentioned. Check the Aloha Chickens thread. There are at least two of them that have a large amount of excess eggs they might be willing to let you...