Help with Wild stray kitten in my garage! | Homesteading Forum
2012年9月22日 · He'll definately be an outdoor cat. Our other cats can stay in the attached garage or barn which ever they prefer. They have crates with warming(non electric) for the winter, dry food 24/7, cat food for treats & a little warm goats milk when it's cold for a treat too.
I make my new boss sneeze. What to do? | Homesteading Forum
2012年12月11日 · I would consider keeping clothes at work to wear there. Around my house the animals live outside or in their own houses, not mine and never get inside my vehicle. Inside dog and cat hair and dander gets in everything. Animals live outside in their own houses. My husband has cat allergy and no-one that has has inside cats is welcome inside the door.
My cats killed a baby weasel - now what? | Homesteading Forum
2007年10月15日 · The smaller HavaHart trap would not admit the average-sized cat - but I did catch a couple of birds which flew off none the worse for the wear. I use the squirrel-chipmunk size HavaHart. I also took my Jack Russells into the hay barn to sniff out the weasels but the dogs proved useless - couldn't find the varmints -- although if they spot the ...
A Frame house questions - Homesteading Forum
2010年6月14日 · Many are surprisingly dark compared to regular houses. As was mentioned heat rises, and since sleeping is often in the loft area, you better like it hot. My brother lived in one for a while. It felt cramped and was not appealing to me at all. During a windstorm in Florida, one of the A frame churches lost 90% of the shingles on one side.
keeping barn cats safe? - Homesteading Forum
2008年7月2日 · We don't have a barn cat. We have an outdoor garage cat. She's been fixed, had her shots, and is litter box trained. She is fed and locked inside the garage every night. During the day, we put her food away and open the door. She gets every mouse, mole, frog, snake, crawdad coming and going.
Cat in Heating Ducts - Homesteading Forum
2009年12月2日 · This is my Grandmother's 17-y-o cat, Casey. She's away right now, visiting my uncle -- if anything happens to Casey while she's gone, she'll never forgive me! (I'm pretty fond of the old boy myself.) I had shut him into Grandma's bathroom to eat his canned food in peace (my younger cat will steal if if she can), and forgot to let him out.
Adding AC to an early 1900's farm house | Homesteading Forum
2024年6月19日 · Houses in Ohio aren't built to be comfortable in hot weather like the old adobe houses in the southwest. I've noticed that on a lot of new construction the houses aren't oriented to catch the evening breezes and don't have eaves wide enough to keep the sun out of the windows in the summer.
Starting seeds with cats in the house | Homesteading Forum
2011年1月19日 · I have 2 indoor/outdoor cats and here is what I do to keep them out of seedlings! My only place to start seeds is in front of my sliding doors in the dining room. I have a couple empty rabbit cages - the nice indoor ones - that I use for chicks later on in June when I'm out of school. In the early spring I put my seed starter containers in the ...
How Many Acres Of Timber = Self Sustaining To Heat Home?
2015年8月9日 · Here in Minnesota, with old farm houses not well insulated and it gets below zero and worse parts of most winters: An 18 acre hardwood wood lot and 2 groves of about 4 acres each supplied all firewood needed for 3 houses. Some sawmill logs lightly came from the same woods. Was no stretch for the wood lot and groves to keep up with firewood.
Preparing/winterizing my well/pump/cistern for extended...
2022年8月26日 · The winter average low is 24deg, and it looks like it dips below zero every couple of years with the all time record being -30 back in 1950. Regarding the well itself, the records indicate it's 120ft deep.