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Bog boots are similar and may be slightly cheaper.

Hi Drew, welcome to Farmchat. I have offered this advice to many other members, but I think your first place to get advice is to contact your cooperative extension. When I first started in farming, I got the most useful information from them. They offer lots of good info and they often offer...

The only animals that I've ever had get frostbite is my hens and roosters. Their combs can get frosbite. I try to put vaseline on them as soon as it gets cold, but most won't allow me to do that, and then once it gets really cold their combs get frostibte. Amazingly, it never seems to bother...

Welcome. This is a really nice forum, everyone tries to help each other, lots of good advice here.

Pros of mice? Good question. Maybe that they eat weed seeds. There must be others. I live trap them because I don't like to kill anything unless I absolutely have to. If I can live trap them, and relocate them to an area where they won't get into trouble, I am happy to do it.

We have barn cats. They are the best method to keep the rodent population down. The most important thing is they have to be ffed, watered and have a safe living space. You cannot rely on them eating what they kill, in fact it isn't healthy for them to eat the rodents that they kill.

Any livestock that is in danger from predators can use guardian animals. I raised Goats, sheep and chickens and I had llamas as guardian animals. They worked great. There are breeds of dogs who are guardians and there are breeds of dogs who are herders, I don't know any breeds who do both.

We use electric heated water buckets.

About a week ago, we noticed mouse droppings in one drawer in our kitchen. I put a live trap mouse trap in the drawer. We caught three mice over several days, and now there are no more mouse droppings anywhere in the house. I guess we only had three.... for now. They always find ways to get...

Yes, all of my horses have free access to a draft free barn. They can come and go as they please. That is essential. I had one horse who lived to a very old age. He loved the snow and if it was snowing, he insisted on being outside and he loved to get completely covered in snow. A...

Have you tried the gloves with removable fingers? I don't know what they're called, but my wife uses them. I just take my gloves off when I need more dexterity.

Any stress will usually cause them to produce less milk. There's probably been studies, try google.

I've lived in the northeast my whole life. All I can say is that you have to dress warm. Dress in layers and wear insulated work gloves. If your toes are cold get thermal socks. As long as it's not windy, the cold doesn't bother me. It's a lot more difficult to keep warm when it's cold AND...

Try contacting your local cooperative extension. They should be able to hook you up with someone. However, if you want the round bales delivered from a long way, be prepared to pay for that delivery.

Depends on the horse. I always cover older horses (approaching 20 years old or older). I cover horses with any health problems. Some of my younger horses have always just taken their blankets off. And I've had horses who managed to get their blankets all twisted up and stuck on fences. Of...

They can be high-profit venues IF you have a stable market. when I was producing goat milk, I thought I had a very stable market until one of my cheese makers suddenly went out of business with no warning (at least no warning to me). I had to scramble to find another cheese maker who needed...

Henderson is right. Keep your day job and start small. Farming is very risky.

Since I stopped producing my own hay, I always stock up on hay before winter sets in, so that in case I'm snowed in my animals have something to eat. I also stock up on feed and emergency meds.

I have quite a few Amish friends. One of them once told me, with great amusement, "Most of you English seem to think that we are always honest. I appreciate that is the image that many of you have, but we're just like anyone else, we have good people and bad people." He then pointed out...

We've bought plants from Amish greenhouses and Amish auctions. We've never had any problem with them.