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Excellent search advice, I use that form quite often myself. Now, to address Pecan toxicity, The trees produce Jugalone just as Walnut trees do. Pecan and Walnut fodder, leaves and bark, can be fed to rabbits, but only in limited amounts. That is what I can't find, 'what are limited amounts'...

The size is the major reason I haven't jumped on the GP bandwagon. West-central PA. here, with a son, grandsons and great-grandkids east of you in the Asheboro area. We've been to Grandfather Mountain for the Scottish Festival a couple times. Pretty darned good! I'm seriously considering a...

Last evening I stumbled onto a fantastic resource! There's a search field at the top of the page where you can enter common names or scientific names for trees and shrubs and it'll show what results are available for that name. Some of the results that I looked up included the quality of the...

A country butcher shop in the middle of a large Amish community. The shop isn't Amish owned or operated, but they're in a grand location to procure good meat from either commercial sellers or the Amish. The Amish have several stores scattered around that sell sporting goods, dry goods, garden...

https://rabbits.life/can-rabbits-eat-spinach/ Kidney and bladder stones and/or renal failure. On occasion it can also trigger diarrhea as the acid can irritate the bowel lining and otherwise throw the gut biome off. That word 'diarrhea' ... looks like someone lost control of their vowels ...

Watch the Oxalic acid. Lamb's Quarters, most sorrels and horseradish have oxalic acid. A little is OK, but too much can cause some health issues. I'm allowing lamb's quarters and sorrels to grow naturally in the backyard area where I'm planning on a mini-open range starting in the spring. As...

Nervous picking. Best example for me is a child I know. He's a bit ADHD, bipolar, etc. His first two years in public school were stressful for him and he picked and pulled his eye brows and eye lashes out. He was a mini Mona Lisa and can laugh about it now because he's a grownup of 22. The...

A lot if this has been mentioned before, but there are a couple ideas I haven't seen brought up. Hide with hair, unless it's very long hair or thick wool can be frozen, dried or baked for dog treats. I'm just not sure about how healthy the very long or wooly hair is for dogs, but short to medium...

For the big pigs we set the air pressure regulator at around 30+psi. I'd guess for a GP around 10# or 15# would be plenty or maybe still a bit much. Flight 22 1/2 to Air Traffic Control, You Ain't Gonna Believe What We Just Saw ... You're all welcome for the laughs!

Maybe I can liven up this thread. There is another way of skinning that involves one initial step. I raised hogs many long years ago, the big ones, and always skinned. Scalding and scraping 900#+ carcasses is a pain where only a suppository can reach. A fellow showed me a skin loosening method...

Watch out regarding some of the online claims about Inulin; "It'll help with diabetes" and some others. I've had type 2 diabetes for years and it's slowly progressing. I'm sure from my 'sticks' readings my doc is going to put me on the needle sometime soon. Maybe the Inulin slowed it down but it...

I'm in the heart of their native range, west-central PA. There are dozens of patches in town and around town. The two good tasting varieties I have are from in-town and I got one from outside of town that's obnoxiously turnipy/herbal flavored. Who knows how many other types there are! Some...

We're on a 1 1/2 in-town lot in DuBois about 100 miles from you. I don't sell them since we use most of what I harvest, though I sent a five pound package to a friend in NC and another to a friend in Canada over the years. Sending to Canada surprised me. I checked with our local postal manager...

Four ways. The Inulin has to be converted into Fructose; Freezing. You'll hear about after the first frost is OK, not so much. My tops, even the flowers aren't fazed by light to medium frost. The tubers have to fully freeze and thaw. Fermenting as refrigerator pickles, but wait until after...

Hi neighbor, DuBois here. New member planning on a mini open range setup for this spring. I've got Sunchokes that would fit that requirement. One variety I've got grows 6' tall which wild rabbits nibble on the spring greens and readily chomp any exposed tubers. Another variety grows 8' and the...

West-central PA. The town I live in is just about the heart of the native range and we've got dozens of patches scattered around town and throughout the county. I'm in DuBois, about 15 miles north of Punxsutawney, the home town of THAT groundhog. As a kid on the farm we had a red skinned...

I've grown 'chokes for years. I've got three varieties and getting rid of one as it's terrible. The tubers taste awful, it grows up to 12' and the tubers spread 4' at least. Their preferred zones are 3 through 8 and they'll tolerate dryness, but not full drought. In hot sun they'll wilt down...

As far as the 'chokes, if the buns take them down, I've got other nearby patches I can carry fodder and tubers from. The total I'm going to try to maintain is 12 - 15. That's why I'm going to cull at least every 4 months.

I'm planning a mini open-range of 50' x 50' and I'm going to put in a patch of Fartychokes of about 10' x 40' on one side. I've got two varieties. One grows around 6' tall with white skinned very knobby tubers that get to baking potato size. The wild buns will eat on the fresh sprouts and leaves...

Re-retired. In west-central Pennsylvania, zone 5. Prefer perennial gardening but of course do some annuals. We live on a 1 1/2 in-town lot. According to town regulations we can raise around 24 rabbits and no more than 3 hens. This spring, 2023, I'm planning on mini-free-ranging some meat mutts...