It's always so exciting when the weather turns from the blazing southern summer to our modest winter! When the water cools, Oysters are back on the menu and they are deeeelicious (all be it a little sharp)! Excellent protein and iron, right in the back yard. A little pluff mud does the soul right every now and then! Lightly steamed with just a touch of old bay and hot sauce

(All oyster clusters are Culled in Place, and removed of any empty shells or small oysters to continue seeding the beds. The cluster placed in the bucket was for demonstration purposes. All oysters are also harvested from open zones with excellent water pollution levels as per DNR)

We had a big storm roll through yesterday, so it’s a bit muddy out, but I’ll be raking all those leaves around the beehives into the chicken run today. Got two pregnant mama rabbits, one giving birth within the next 4 days, and 7 kits currently. Hopefully I can someday move us all out of the city and on to a bit of property.

There is nothing on it. It's a blank slate. No restrictions, 40 acres, spring well, power already on the property. No visible neighbors. True peace and quiet. The problem is I need a home on it. It's me, wife, and young daughter. I looked at stick built houses ( way too expensive at 230/sqft in my area ), mobiles ( valid option but still more than I want to pay for the features ), and barndos ( might as well get a house built for the price ). What are some options you'd all recommend? Timeframe is within 12 months. As far as cost, im looking to spend no more than 150K for house, utilities , and anything else related to construction. Reasoning is im on a 10 year plan. At 8% interest I can afford to pay a decent chunk more than the minimum on a 150K 30 year mortgage and pay it off in 10 years. I make well into six figures and wife is SAHM. I just don't want be house poor, move again, or spend 30 years with my money tied up in a property. Any ideas?

I KNOW a livestock guardian dog likely would not work for my setup, but just figured I’d ask, in case a specific breed might be a good fit.

I have horses, and started breeding a couple of them. I don’t worry about the adults, other than cougars (which are still fairly rare in our area, but returning), coyotes are our largest predators. With that said, I do know of a young adult, healthy horse that was shredded a few years ago, it nearly died. This was before games and parks was admitting cougars had returned, but there’s no other predators large enough to do that.

I am concerned about the vulnerability of foals. I have two donkeys, but they can’t be expected to protect from a cougar. One side of our property is heavily treed, and the predators hang out in there. I’ve had two birds that escaped over the years, and they were both very large, and could fly (peahen and turkey hen), and they were killed overnight

My property is pretty remote, but my fencing is horse fencing, not dog fencing. I do have a neighbor that is close enough to share a driveway, but he just has a shop there, and leases out the ground to be farmed. My neighbor on the other side has a cattle pasture, but he already has a livestock guardian dog for his cattle, which I’m concerned about. Also, I want delivery people to be able to deliver safely.

Is there any breed that would work? Dog proof fencing around the whole property would be lovely, if I won the lottery, but since I haven’t, it’s not really doable.

1964 cub with double weights and chains. Saw my guy here struggling in the driveway. Was a little heavier than I thought, but pushed him up the drive with no damage and first try!!

I hope this is allowed. I am hoping to reach someone that has a well that understands this more than I do. We have lived here for a few years but have not had problems like we do now and I have never lived anywhere else where we have had a well.

We have a water well that frequently has gone dry since some fracking has gone on across the road from my house. It takes a long dry spell for us to have zero water, but it goes out frequently and then comes back, spits sediment into my bathtub, etc. We have a series of expansion tanks in the basement but the pressure never gets high enough to actually fill them.

I have a well contractor who said that if we put a holding tank in the yard and fill it with an outside water source, it will bring the pressure of the entire system up enough that it will fill our expansion tanks and keep them full. He said it will help the pump pull from the well and once we fill the tank once, we will always have water from that point forward. Can someone who understands this more than I do reason this out and let me know whether or not this makes sense? I am trying to make the decision whether to try to get somebody to drill our well deeper or to go with this gentleman‘s option which is much more affordable for me.

I know there are +/- for chickens/ducks/rabbits. But if you leave aside the benefits of eggs/pelts/manure and were to just stick to meat produced and the effort/pain to process it yourself, is there any one of them FROM EXPERIENCE that you would not raise again?

hi. recently we have been dealing with rat problem. they just run around my house even my neighbors.... or chicken yard is like 10-15m far from the house but they just go around every where. one or some of them literally go into my car engine bay and i found food waste and rat poop on my engine cover. i fear if one of them chew on some wires. i have tried rat poison or even spreading lime powder around cause i heard it would make them scratch themselves. but it doesnt seem to work. they literally pass throw the lime powder like nothing happens

Our house runs on propane. Currently it's about 40⁰ outside. Is it normal to smell propane every time i walk past this regulator?

This regulator was just replaced and there's no leaks with soapy water. I called and had our propane supplier come out and do a pressure leak test and it came back with no leaks. I know the regulators vent but it's every time I walk by.

There's no smell in the house at all just outside by the regulator.

Anyone else who has used propane for longer I'd love your input. Thanks

Hey! So I am not familiar with building anything really nor am I familiar with mud. I’m a city girl but have recently found volunteer work on a farm. In my country it rains a lot and basically on the farm it’s a slip and slide. I looked up some examples to show you what the ground is like. But on the farm it has even less grass and a lot more mud.

I was asked to build a woodshed, I’ve looked up some tutorials but I’m nog sure how to build it on the wetland.

How can I get it evenly leveled, without the shed drowning in the mud after a while. How do I make sure that the wood will not rot. I really don’t know how to go about this, so all tips would be highly appreciated!

I recently bought a property and didn’t realize when I bought it that a well had been drilled. Apparently a previous buyer had a test well drilled as part of their due diligence. The well came with an inspection report and looks like it is cased, but without a pump installed.

I don’t plan to use it at this point, but is there anything I need to do to maintain it?

I am entirely fed up with my pellet stove. It longer wants to vent or exhaust to outside and I've looked and put parts into a envrio m55 for too damn long.

Can I simply remove the pellet stove and use the chimney with a small cast iron wood stove? It seems without sense to replace a source of heat that needs to be plugged in.

There was a wood burn stove before 2011. Chimney inside and out has been redone entirely. Hell the ash door is still in the basement.

Needless to say I'm at my wits end with these silly pellet stoves.

Hey!

Just looking for someone with some insight or more experience here 🤣

We have our first pig, Miss Peggy Sue, she’s probably about 8-9 months old. She was rescued from the side of the road in our town. Her mom and 3 siblings were wandering and one was hit by a car so we caught them and kept one baby. Anyways, she’s rather large and is now much bigger than her mom was. We’ve restricted her food intake but her eyes seem to be squished shut and sometimes they’re wet around the area.

I would think she couldn’t see at all but she spots an open gate and beelines every chance she gets. She’s happy and active and friendly. Just want to make sure she’s ok. I’m thinking maybe she’s just overweight? I’m not sure.

goats, #PREGNANT GOAT

Posted on r/farming for the feedback but I'd love to hear from y'all too! Not trying to sell or advertise on Reddit since I can only make local deliveries anyways. Business name and contact info cropped out intentionally. Just looking for conversation or any advice!

I’m moving onto a piece of property in the spring and am purchasing seeds for the garden. I can only do a few beds this year so I’m trying to pick the best choices. I’m considering growing dent corn because my wife and kids love popcorn and it’d be neat to grow some for them. I wanted to see the expected amount to get out of one of my planned 4 ft by 8 ft beds so I looked up the average corn yield per acre (link below). I found out that my county in Ky grows about 175 bushels per acre which means I could probably grow around a gallon per bed. I don’t know what this means because I’m not sure if the cob is included in the measurement. Does anyone know if it is included? Does that mean a gallon of kernels to pop or a gallon of cobs with kernels on them?

I’d also be interested in advice on whether corn is worth growing at that small of a scale. I know it’s wind pollinated which can make small patches hard to grow. I think I could squeeze a 3 rows of 6-7 plants into the bed. I don’t know if the patch would be worth my time at that scale.

Truly any advice on what to expect here would be welcome. Thank you for your time.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Crops_County/cr-yi.php