Forwarded from Living off the Land
Chickens are a great addition to any homestead. They are relatively easy to raise, and provide meat (broilers) and eggs (layers).
The amount of meat and eggs you get depends on the breed of chicken.
Rhode island reds, leghorns, and plymouth rocks lay between 200-250 eggs per year. Other breeds like cornish crosses, freedom rangers, and jersey giants grow larger, providing more meat and less eggs.
Waterers and feeders can be found at any farm supply store and usually cost around $10. Chicken wire fencing can also be found there, but the cost will depend on how big your flock is. A chicken coop will also be needed. It should have around 3sq ft per bird, a roosting area, and a nest box for every 3 hens. It should be big enough to shovel manure and gather eggs in comfortably. You'll also want a run (open area) for the chickens. 8-10 sq ft per bird should do. 3-6 chickens is a good start.
Daily chores involve feeding, Watering, Checking for disease, Gathering eggs, Clean coop weekly
More detailed info in PDF
The amount of meat and eggs you get depends on the breed of chicken.
Rhode island reds, leghorns, and plymouth rocks lay between 200-250 eggs per year. Other breeds like cornish crosses, freedom rangers, and jersey giants grow larger, providing more meat and less eggs.
Waterers and feeders can be found at any farm supply store and usually cost around $10. Chicken wire fencing can also be found there, but the cost will depend on how big your flock is. A chicken coop will also be needed. It should have around 3sq ft per bird, a roosting area, and a nest box for every 3 hens. It should be big enough to shovel manure and gather eggs in comfortably. You'll also want a run (open area) for the chickens. 8-10 sq ft per bird should do. 3-6 chickens is a good start.
Daily chores involve feeding, Watering, Checking for disease, Gathering eggs, Clean coop weekly
More detailed info in PDF
Forwarded from Living off the Land
BackyardChickenBible.pdf
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Forwarded from Sissy & Bubba's Farmstead
Welcome to the new episode S&B's cribs. My name is Angus and I am about to move into this awesome new house that my dad built for me in just 3 hours... (you can tell it) no magic is happening here yet because I am single and ready to mingle so if you are a pretty hen and in need of a home hit me up
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Forwarded from Boogaloo Intel Drop📡
Also, here's some more information on eating heathy, just because I can.
THE DIRTY DOZEN vs THE CLEAN FIFTEEN
The dirty dozen are the twelve fruits and vegetables most likely to be bought with pesticides and poisons still on them from large scale farming. The clean fifteen are the opposite, they are the cleanest and least likely to have pesticides and chemicals applied to them. If you are ever worried about cleaning pesticides off of food you are preparing, there's a simple trick to fix it. Make a 3:1 mixture of water and distilled white vinegar and put it in a spray bottle. Spritz any fruits or vegetables you're concerned about, and let it sit for five minutes. Then rinse them off and use them normally. Yes, it really is that easy, and yes, you really do live in a corporate hell that they won't do this to your food before it gets put on a shelf. Sometimes the bananas have dead spiders from Brazil in them, it's fun.
THE DIRTY DOZEN
These are the twelve supermarket products most likely to still have chemicals or pesticides on them when you buy them. You should always spritz these with your spray vinegar and rinse them thoroughly.
Apples
Celery
Sweet Bell Peppers
Peaches
Strawberries
Nectarines
Grapes
Spinach
Lettuce
Cucumbers
Blueberries
Potatoes
THE CLEAN FIFTEEN
These are some of the cleanest products you can buy at a grocery store. You should still clean them for safety and habit, but don't lose sleep over it. Eating more of these can cut your second-hand pesticide intake by up to 90%.
Onions
Sweet Corn
Pineapples
Avocados
Cabbage
Sweet Peas
Asparagus
Mangoes
Eggplant
Kiwi
Cantaloupe
Sweet Potatoes
Grapefruit
Watermelon
Mushrooms
If you live in the United States, check the sticker number (the PLU) number on any produce you buy: if it starts with the number 9, that means it was grown organically.
THE DIRTY DOZEN vs THE CLEAN FIFTEEN
The dirty dozen are the twelve fruits and vegetables most likely to be bought with pesticides and poisons still on them from large scale farming. The clean fifteen are the opposite, they are the cleanest and least likely to have pesticides and chemicals applied to them. If you are ever worried about cleaning pesticides off of food you are preparing, there's a simple trick to fix it. Make a 3:1 mixture of water and distilled white vinegar and put it in a spray bottle. Spritz any fruits or vegetables you're concerned about, and let it sit for five minutes. Then rinse them off and use them normally. Yes, it really is that easy, and yes, you really do live in a corporate hell that they won't do this to your food before it gets put on a shelf. Sometimes the bananas have dead spiders from Brazil in them, it's fun.
THE DIRTY DOZEN
These are the twelve supermarket products most likely to still have chemicals or pesticides on them when you buy them. You should always spritz these with your spray vinegar and rinse them thoroughly.
Apples
Celery
Sweet Bell Peppers
Peaches
Strawberries
Nectarines
Grapes
Spinach
Lettuce
Cucumbers
Blueberries
Potatoes
THE CLEAN FIFTEEN
These are some of the cleanest products you can buy at a grocery store. You should still clean them for safety and habit, but don't lose sleep over it. Eating more of these can cut your second-hand pesticide intake by up to 90%.
Onions
Sweet Corn
Pineapples
Avocados
Cabbage
Sweet Peas
Asparagus
Mangoes
Eggplant
Kiwi
Cantaloupe
Sweet Potatoes
Grapefruit
Watermelon
Mushrooms
If you live in the United States, check the sticker number (the PLU) number on any produce you buy: if it starts with the number 9, that means it was grown organically.
The FDA version of 'Organic' often still includes GMO products as well as fertilizers and insecticides. It will always be better to grow your own, but the above is a great guide for grocery shopping
To avoid ingesting pesticides and herbicides, you have to either grow your own (guaranteed) or buy organic (mostly guaranteed).
If a plant was grown with a pesticide or herbicide, those substances aren’t simply on the surface of the plant as a residue that can be removed; they’ve been absorbed into the plant’s flesh, & even into its seeds. If you want to at least try to get rid of surface residue, a brief spraying with vinegar won’t do that. Pesticides & herbicides are acidic salts, so you need something basic to dissociate the atoms. The only things that have been shown to remove surface residue are 1) soaking in NaHCO3 (baking soda) solution for ~10 mins, and 2) washing with soap. The soap option comes with other concerns, in that most soaps themselves leave a residue on porous surfaces, like hands or, in this case, produce. To avoid creating a soap residue, you can use a “natural” soap, meaning one composed of only an oil saponified with KOH (for liquid soap) or NaOH (hard soap), like Dr. Bronner’s or Kirk’s. Conventional dish soaps, like Dawn, include additional ingredients (betaines, emulsifiers, phthalates, humectants, etc.), which is why you see them advertised as non-drying to the hands. That’s the product leaving a residue, and that residue will adhere to porous surfaces, like hands, produce, plastic, or a chipped spot on a ceramic plate.
-Informed chat member
If a plant was grown with a pesticide or herbicide, those substances aren’t simply on the surface of the plant as a residue that can be removed; they’ve been absorbed into the plant’s flesh, & even into its seeds. If you want to at least try to get rid of surface residue, a brief spraying with vinegar won’t do that. Pesticides & herbicides are acidic salts, so you need something basic to dissociate the atoms. The only things that have been shown to remove surface residue are 1) soaking in NaHCO3 (baking soda) solution for ~10 mins, and 2) washing with soap. The soap option comes with other concerns, in that most soaps themselves leave a residue on porous surfaces, like hands or, in this case, produce. To avoid creating a soap residue, you can use a “natural” soap, meaning one composed of only an oil saponified with KOH (for liquid soap) or NaOH (hard soap), like Dr. Bronner’s or Kirk’s. Conventional dish soaps, like Dawn, include additional ingredients (betaines, emulsifiers, phthalates, humectants, etc.), which is why you see them advertised as non-drying to the hands. That’s the product leaving a residue, and that residue will adhere to porous surfaces, like hands, produce, plastic, or a chipped spot on a ceramic plate.
-Informed chat member
the-ten-bushcraft-books.pdf
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One of my favorite PDF's in my collection, this book will take you through everything from distance measuring, cordage crafting, to trap making out in the wilderness. Give it a read before your next camping trip
Woodsman-Ship.pdf
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This couples well with the book above. Wood is an obviously abundant material in the wilderness, learn how to make wood work for you, not the other way around.
The-Book-of-Camplore-and-Woodcraft-Dan-Beard.pdf
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Further reading
Forwarded from Sissy & Bubba's Farmstead
Well yall it is finally done... ish. Everything that I have to direct seed is planted. I still have a lot of mater and pepper starts and a few other things as well in the green house waiting to go in. It's been a hard few days but totally worth it to see it all in there. A friend and I were talking about technique the other day. I told him that mine was to pray, plant, pray, water, and pray again😁. Gardening is not my forte. But maybe my technique will win out this year! Yall have a blessed day
Sissy & Bubba's Farmstead
Well yall it is finally done... ish. Everything that I have to direct seed is planted. I still have a lot of mater and pepper starts and a few other things as well in the green house waiting to go in. It's been a hard few days but totally worth it to see it…
I support the pray-plant method. God bless
Forwarded from White Phoenix
As a man, and a man concerned for the future of his people and his country and his world, you should want to have kids. However, the cards are stacked against you all once you decide to do this. This letter is written to wives and women.
First, when you become pregnant you become a lab rat for doctors to poke and prod and test and exam. There is evidence that ultrasounds (especially vaginal ultrasounds) may induce miscarriage in some situations. There is also no evidence that they are entirely safe for the baby or momma (they produce heat and heat can lead to premature birth).
If you make it through pregnancy without doctors convincing you there something isn’t quite right with your child or that the baby needs to come out now via c-section (harder on mom and baby, easier on doctor (((Knife-Happy))) who can get home to his mistress earlier, plus he gets more $$$), or that it’s overdue (white and asian babies have longer average gestational periods than others; brain development happens most at the end and 42 weeks isn’t impossible) and needs to be induced using pitocin (synthetic oxytocin, used for induction, carries a laundry list of possible side-effects including an increased risk of post-partum depression and also death for momma and baby) or come out via c-section, you go to the hospital and get an IV full of antibiotics which harms the livers of all involved, antihistamines to make you a zombie, maybe an epidural which allows your vagina to tear without you feeling it (tearing is a result of doctor-ordered pushing before the vagina is ready to deliver the baby) so the doctors can stitch you up and practice their artistry, and who knows what else.
Once your baby is born (in a hospital) they will be given erythromycin in their eyes to prevent the contraction of gonorrhea in the vaginal canal (do you have gonorrhea?) and Vitamin K to prevent bleeding out during circumcision (but it’s given to girls, as well, and you shouldn’t be chopping the foreskin off your son anyway), as well as a laundry list of other vaccines which your ancestors somehow lived without for thousands of years. Have a homebirth. I know it’s scary, but the alternative is scarier.
So you’re discharged, now you have to go to regular well-child checkups to make sure you’re complying with vaccine schedules and treating every cry like an emergency ear infection needing antibiotics (80% of *actual* ear infections heal on their own, and most diagnoses aren’t actual ear infections. Further, the use of antibiotics actually increases the risk of future ear infections).
You’ve made it through all that, time for you to go back to work, mom. Just kidding, there’s no way your husband would allow you to work while you have kids, thereby placing them in the care of anyone else, right mom? If he (or the man reading this) would, that makes him a disgraceful loser. Don’t marry a man that won’t do whatever it takes to allow you to stay home with his children. He may have to work two jobs, or he may have to find a better one. Anything is better than not having mom around or having baby at daycare.
Cool, now it’s time to send them off to government indoctrination facility where they can be taught to hate you and themselves and be groomed and possibly molested by faggots and pedophiles. Homeschool your children, people. I shouldn’t have to say anymore about this.
First, when you become pregnant you become a lab rat for doctors to poke and prod and test and exam. There is evidence that ultrasounds (especially vaginal ultrasounds) may induce miscarriage in some situations. There is also no evidence that they are entirely safe for the baby or momma (they produce heat and heat can lead to premature birth).
If you make it through pregnancy without doctors convincing you there something isn’t quite right with your child or that the baby needs to come out now via c-section (harder on mom and baby, easier on doctor (((Knife-Happy))) who can get home to his mistress earlier, plus he gets more $$$), or that it’s overdue (white and asian babies have longer average gestational periods than others; brain development happens most at the end and 42 weeks isn’t impossible) and needs to be induced using pitocin (synthetic oxytocin, used for induction, carries a laundry list of possible side-effects including an increased risk of post-partum depression and also death for momma and baby) or come out via c-section, you go to the hospital and get an IV full of antibiotics which harms the livers of all involved, antihistamines to make you a zombie, maybe an epidural which allows your vagina to tear without you feeling it (tearing is a result of doctor-ordered pushing before the vagina is ready to deliver the baby) so the doctors can stitch you up and practice their artistry, and who knows what else.
Once your baby is born (in a hospital) they will be given erythromycin in their eyes to prevent the contraction of gonorrhea in the vaginal canal (do you have gonorrhea?) and Vitamin K to prevent bleeding out during circumcision (but it’s given to girls, as well, and you shouldn’t be chopping the foreskin off your son anyway), as well as a laundry list of other vaccines which your ancestors somehow lived without for thousands of years. Have a homebirth. I know it’s scary, but the alternative is scarier.
So you’re discharged, now you have to go to regular well-child checkups to make sure you’re complying with vaccine schedules and treating every cry like an emergency ear infection needing antibiotics (80% of *actual* ear infections heal on their own, and most diagnoses aren’t actual ear infections. Further, the use of antibiotics actually increases the risk of future ear infections).
You’ve made it through all that, time for you to go back to work, mom. Just kidding, there’s no way your husband would allow you to work while you have kids, thereby placing them in the care of anyone else, right mom? If he (or the man reading this) would, that makes him a disgraceful loser. Don’t marry a man that won’t do whatever it takes to allow you to stay home with his children. He may have to work two jobs, or he may have to find a better one. Anything is better than not having mom around or having baby at daycare.
Cool, now it’s time to send them off to government indoctrination facility where they can be taught to hate you and themselves and be groomed and possibly molested by faggots and pedophiles. Homeschool your children, people. I shouldn’t have to say anymore about this.
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A friend of mine decided to go off grid. He bought four 3kw growatt inverters, 9kw of used solar panels from some place in Florida on facebook, and two forklift batteries totaling 100kwh. This gives him 5 days of autonomy. His total outlay is around $13,000. The inverters are not grid interactive, he's not selling power. But if his battery dies and there's no solar, it will fall over to the grid. The panels are mounted on a teeter totter arraignment so he can change the tilt in summer / winter. We did an experiment today and turned off all but one inverter and started and restarted a 5hp air compressor several times. These growatt inverters are pretty slick. The inverters are setup as two pairs, each making 120v and combined for 240 split phase. We turned off the output of one in each pair and watched as the remaining ones instantly took the load. Very pleased with these inverters.