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I would say that chickens are the easiest to raise, but they get picked off by every kind of predator including hawks and neighbor's dogs. You do get eggs and never have to slaughter them, but losing large numbers of them can be traumatic. NEVER name chickens, the named chicken will always be...

You can google the model and serial number, You can probably find the age that way.

Sometimes an old finish just doesn't clean up. I always try to salvage the original finish, but sometimes you have to refinish it. Sometimes a light sanding will take off the bad part of the old finish, and then you can use Minwax Natural stain on it to bring back the original color and then a...

Well,,,,it all depends. I had a goat dairy farm on 10 acres, and I also raised chickens for eggs and sheep for wool. However, I never raised any animals for meat. Five acres really isn't enough to have much pasture. Even at 10 acres, my pastures were very limited, and I ended up spending a...

I have sown white clover into all of my hayfields and pastures. Like Eden I don't know why anyone would want to kill clover.

It would be a shame to paint it. I would strip it and refinish it. It has a lot of sentimental value and should be preserved, if possible. It sounds like the finish absorbed moisture. My wife and I used to own an antiques shop, and I would refinish a lot of the furniture we sold. I always...

Milky spots on furniture are often caused by putting something damp on the furniture, such as a wet glass. To remove it, make paste of 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 teaspoon water. Gently rub the spotin a circular motion and hopefully it disappears. As far as the glass, there must be...

Excellent ruling!!!

Is Roundup Safer Than Table Salt? Nathan Donley Follow Feb 1, 2018 · 5 min read #EcoAdvice from our expert Dear Dr. Donley, I’ve read that Roundup weedkiller is safer than table salt, but I’ve also heard it can cause cancer. Clearly both of these can’t be right, so can you explain the...

Why would you want to kill clover? I've seeded clover into my pastures and hayfields. It's a legume and supplies nitrogen to the soil.

I never heard that. Let us know if it works.

I agree Susanna, you can't just produce one product anymore. When our farm was in production we produced goat milk, eggs, wool, hay and various fruit and veggies. You have to diversify.

How about never? Roundup is exceedingly toxic and carcinogenic. There are natural alternatives.

Last week it was in the 90's here in upstate New York. Today it's in the 50's. Summer was over before it began.

I keep fans placed all around all of my livestock barns. It usually keeps them cooler, I know because many of them like to stay in the barns when it's hot. I also make sure they have plenty of water and change the water often to keep it cool.

Buttercups do cause blisters in horses' mouths. I had buttercups in the horse pasture in my old farm. I just made sure that they had plenty of good pasture and hay to eat, and they just stayed away from the buttercups. Using herbicides to get rid of the buttercups probably won't be very...

Yup, I know that Sam, that's one of the reason our business wasn't profitable. But I just couldn't send my animals to slaughter.

Good point, she could definitely be used as a companion animal.

Susanna, my wife and I can't handle killing animals that we raised. We no longer are in the dairy goat business, but when we were, most of the doe kids joined the herd, some were sold, but only to other dairy herds (that we checked out before selling them) or they were sold as pets. We spent...

Livestock feed is made mostly of corn, when corn prices go up, feed prices go up, and livestock products' prices go up.