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I wonder if it has more to do with what the commercial beasts were fed. Either way, I haven't bought beef in about a year. I can't afford butcher prices and store meat is varying shades of pink or brown. I like fresh bloody meat, not old half rotten crap. To be honest, I couldn't afford store...

In all honesty where is it going to stop? The stuff that plants are supposed to deter will evolve to overcome the plant's defenses. Do we really want TRUE super bugs that kill anything that isn't genetically tampered with? Selective breeding is a slow process, genetic tampering isn't. So while...

For us, I'd like to produce all of our greens and maybe most of the veggies. We'll also be getting our start in fruits, though most will be at least two years out for production. But we'll have apple and peach trees planted and raspberries. I've already gotten a good start on producing our own...

Build a solar generator?! I'd love to hear more on this!

Tylenol, ibuprofen, aspirin, tussin dm, amoxicillin, penicillin, various supplements and numerous mixed teas for various ailments. Then we have bandages for various uses, peroxide (NOT for wounds as it damages healthy tissues and slows healing), epsom salt, bath bombs to help keep skin integrity...

It's only about fifteen minutes from here. We still had to stay somewhat close to prison. But it's a nice area and perfect for us. The neighbors are even good neighbors. Not really much more we could ask for and certainly much more than one could expect for the price!

We put an offer in on Saturday and last night we got the text accepting the offer on our new home! So now we're making plans for a house for the birds and researching peach trees and planning for apple trees. I also have raspberry starts coming in spring. Most important though is the bird house...

We got a new house for xmas! 4.5 acres of land of our own to garden and grow trees and raise the birds on. Our neighbor has chickens and a goat as well. As far as wrapped presents go I got a nook to save storage place instead of having books everywhere. I can now hopefully download all the cool...

You can use it in place of one of those pricey detangling spray conditioners also. My hair is a complete bear when wet, can't get a brush through it to save your life, even if it was brushed BEFORE it got wet and I don't mess it all up in the shower. But some watered down conditioner in a spray...

I'm the same way with my turkeys. I just can't bring myself to butcher one. :/ I've never raised horses, though I like them a lot. I really liked my lamb too though, and still ate him. It's different when you buy an animal strictly for pet though.

Don't feel bad. I stopped by the horse auction last month just to watch and entertain the boys (okay, I admit, I enjoyed it immensely myself). Full sized horses, fully trained, gorgeous horses, going for under $500, and the ones who weren't ridden in were closer to $250. I really started...

K15n1, it's not so much the butchering that I have a problem with. It's the killing of them. My turkeys are my favorites, they're like dogs, except none of the crap I totally hate about dogs (which is just about everything, but they do have a few neat perks to them). They're so sweet and...

I've butchered chickens so far from this year's endeavors, but now I've got pekin and coturnix eggs in the bator, to raise out into meat birds (the excess males anyways). I found that I couldn't butcher my turkeys that were supposed to be butchered this fall, although, fortunately, there are...

What a fun birthday! I have gone to the range in a skirt. Fortunately, we get to use the prison range when it's not in use, so nobody was there except G and I, so I didn't have to worry about anyone seeing my hooch when I straddled the bench, in a very, very unlady-like fashion. Ah well. The...

We'll be moving in a matter of WEEKS, and I'm still planning out and obtaining new birds, lol.

Chickens are basically only as complicated as you make them. I've got 41 birds here, 31 of them being chickens, and I don't really have much hassle. I converted a room under the porch addition into a "coop", have no run and don't really have to muck with them much. I change the room out every...

For me, rabbit is chicken. Tastes pretty much the same, so use it in any recipe that you'd use boneless, skinless chicken in. :)

There was a thread on another prepping forum... Someone was actually shocked to see a homesteading section. I was shocked that they were shocked. Then someone said that the Alaska: Last Frontier show wasn't about prepping, because they were preparing for a known reason... I'm still confused on...

Mostly I prepare now because I grew up in the mountains, where blizzards often took power out on a regular basis and we had no way to the bottom of the mountain half of the time. We had family berry picking, come deer season we had the entire extended family of hunters and even family friends...

Well, mail carrier decided not to stop at our house to pick up some packages, so after waiting for them to show up and missing out on going for a brewery grain run, I went to take the packages in and hit the feed mill. Besides the mash, I also picked up a jar of local honey from the feed mill...