Ratfarm: plantyhamchuk: ratfarm: I got reputation at the feed...
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ratfarm: plantyhamchuk: ratfarm: I got reputation at the feed store as the “Rooster Recycler”. Chickens have been trendy since Duluth lifted it’s city ban and chickens could be showcased proudly in designer coops in front yards rather than hidden in repurposed dog kennels behind garages. [Side note: I have a great love for the low-key pre-legal chicken keepers.] People get straight run birds (unsexed) and then the roosters grow up and start fighting or possibly off the neighbors crowing and surprise, nobody wants spare roosters. The birds sit on Craigslist and bulletin boards. Pe ..read more
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Tumblr is deleting my farm posts for “Gore and mutilation”.I had a lot of really cool...
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Tumblr is deleting my farm posts for “Gore and mutilation”. I had a lot of really cool shit lined up to start posting again, now I can’t even see the deleted posts to archive them. The reblogs are gone. Everything. The link in the email notification about this doesn’t work, but I guess someone threw a hissy fit about butchering. If this was the Rooster Recycler post I’ll be pissed because that was a long explanation about the ethics of meat and raising chickens and how backyard city dwellers were abusing chickens. I’ve been seeing a lot of farm/rural/animal communities threw the ringers lately ..read more
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Probably a dumb question but what do you do with your food offerings on your altar? Like do you leave them to rot, or burn them? But if you burn them what do you do with the ashes? I've never done any consumable offerings because I've no idea what do with them like I don't want mould but I feel like it's rude to take away the offering to bin it? Halp
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@drop-the-dagger-romeo It’s not a dumb question at all! If it’s an outside altar I’ll leave offerings to rot or be consumed by animals. Inside offerings I’ll leave for as long as is hygenically reasonable depending on what they are, then I throw them outside. Water offerings (indoors) I’ll pour into a special houseplant when I bring the next day’s water.I don’t think it’s disrespectful to let nature take offerings, at least not in my practice. It can even be an auspicious event, say if ravens eat food for Odin, or an inherent part of the offering if you’re sending things to the underworld, etc ..read more
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Cloud111: ratfarm: Scenes on the farm: most of the goats, a...
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cloud111: ratfarm: Scenes on the farm: most of the goats, a buckeye chicken with an overgrown beak before I clipped it, and Papa’s hair getting long! c: July 25, 2017 How old is that chicken? Sensory nerves grow in a few weeks after hatching, beak clipping after that should be really painful :/ This chicken is three months old and this is an overgrowth which is fine (and necesarry) to cut. Chicken beaks continually grow and are worn down through use. If you watch chickens, they wipe their beaks on hard surfaces and file them. Occasionally beaks will out of control or in the case of ..read more
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Back to Hartley! We left even earlier after noticing a class on...
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Back to Hartley! We left even earlier after noticing a class on break outside everyday. So this time we did our kid ride with time for Jr. to get in on a game of catch befor his class started. Lieblings had to work so I hit the trails solo. In just a few days I’ve gotten a lot faster and better at them and I’ve been adding up the miles from the map and doing just over four on challenging terrain. It’s not that much, I used to ride 7 miles through the city when we lived in town, but that was also on streets and flat paved bike trails. I was carrying my satchel across my body and ge ..read more
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Hitting the trails again at Hartley! Small Friend likes going...
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Hitting the trails again at Hartley! Small Friend likes going over the damn bridge. We kept going while he was in day camp. Liebling’s fat bike is really sweet, I can see why they’ve gotten so popular around here. I’m riding his old mountain bike he gave me years ago (I love it and switched back to it after trying a fancy new one) and it’s pretty capable, but I find myself worried about bending rims on the jutting rocks and other obstacles if I beat too hard on the trails. The Hartley trails are a BLAST. I used to ride in this park when I was a kid (either here or Lester, depe ..read more
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Scenes on the farm: most of the goats, a buckeye chicken with an...
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Scenes on the farm: most of the goats, a buckeye chicken with an overgrown beak before I clipped it, and Papa’s hair getting long! c:July 25, 2017 ..read more
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Judas Jr. started a week of summer day camp at Hartley Nature...
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Judas Jr. started a week of summer day camp at Hartley Nature Center yesterday. He had a blast and that night we grilled venison and hotdogs and had a fire in the yard with smores. Since we homeschool this was a good way for him to have time with oher kids but without the drawbacks (including massive time sink) of traditional school. Everything is nature-based and interactive with a lot of outside time. He’s never been away from both of us before and I felt extremely anxious about leaving him with what is essentially a stranger. He’s never even had a babysitter, instead we’ve coor ..read more
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