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Try to make sure they can't get in. Go around the house and seal all holes you can find, insdie and outside. If you can't seal the hole, tightly stuff it with steel wool. Also, mice don't like mothballs. If you know you have someplace they're getting in stuff it with mothballs before you...

I've had nothing but trouble with Interstate batteries. About 15 years ago, I bought one at my local tractor parts store for my old 1951 Ferguson tractor. Within 2 months the battery wouldn't hold a charge. I brought it back to the tractor parts store, and the owner, who was a friend of mine...

Swallows are extremely beneficial. You'll find that your mosquito population and the population of other flying bugs will skyrocket without the swallows. Can you protect your stuff from their droppings (assuming that that's the problem)?

That's really unusual. Roosters usually have a harem. If you have a flock with several roosters, the strongest rooster will have the biggest harem, and the weakest may not have any girls at all.

It also depends on what you're doing on the farm. For livestock, you have to put up fences. That's an investment on land that you don't own.

What are you planning on doing with the farm? Grow crops? Raise livestock?

One of the best places to get information on new technologies in agriculture is from your cooperative extension. When I started off in farming they were my main source. They offer all kinds of courses and seminars for new farmers and for long term farmers and if your join their listserves...

Ford's been out of the tractor business for decades. They sold their tractor business to New Holland.

As I said earlier in this thread, it all depends on your levels of sanitation of your milk house and the level of health of your animals. When we were producing goat milk, we kept our milk house extremely clean, totally sanitized it between milkings, and I mean sanitize it between milkings, not...

I love old architecture and hate to see an old house destroyed. My wife and I renovated our first farmhouse that was over 200 years old. It was badly renovated in the 1960's and we decided to return it to what it was probably like at around 1900. It was a labor of love for us. What kind of...

I won't sell my lambs for meat either, so that just left wool as an income from the sheep. I never got much for fleeces, my sheep were basically pets. The most I got for fleeces were from Marino sheep.

Our first farm was just under 10 acres. Our main business was goat milk. We also had a small egg business, where we shipped eggs from here in upstate New York to NYC and we also sold sheep wool. You can do a lot on 10 acres.

Are you gonna use it off road on your farm? Is your farm hilly? Here in upstate New York, many farms are very hilly, and 2wd might easily get stuck. I use the 4wd on my truck often when I'm transporting things on my farm. We also get a lot of snow, so I also use the 4wd often in the winter...

Absolutely!!! I used to be a wildlife rehabber, and I've made friends with lots of wild animals while nursing them back to help. That is always a very special friendship.

I had that happen to my 20001 GMC Sierra truck, basically the same as a Chevy. Mine has push button 4 wheel drive and in my case the push buttons had to be replaced. I don't know how that translates to knob controls.

Ha!!!!!! I recognize that righting style!!!! Hello Thomas!!!!! I also discovered this cite after Muhammed sent me an invite. You made friends with bears??? Wow that's pretty cool!!! I've managed to make friends with some of our local foxes, they let me get pretty close and they've agreed...

Excellent, Desi. When I can get a barn cat tame enough to pick up, they quickly become house cats.

The advice others gave you is great. If she's letting you pet her, over time, see if you can pick her up. If she lets you, a vet visit would certainly be a good thing. And neutering her after the kittens are weaned (as well as neutering the kittens) would be great. We've always had barn...

I've been farming for 20 years and I've never used pesticides. It may take more work to be organic, but it's better for the environment and better for you.

Goats, sheep, llamas and alpacas all get along great.