homesteading

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2018-01-31 21:46:16 UTC
2018-01-31 21:46:56 UTC
2018-01-31 21:47:44 UTC

I think I'll just use my private property I don't need no commies or blacks stealin my foood

2018-01-31 21:48:48 UTC

so many rooms now and still no #tradworer for shitposting

2018-01-31 21:59:11 UTC

@Commander Davis (TWP)

Ya, I would stick to my own land, but the notion is still intriguing.

2018-01-31 22:01:43 UTC

HOLY SHIT

2018-01-31 22:01:50 UTC

A channel I can get behind

2018-01-31 22:02:06 UTC

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2018-01-31 22:02:28 UTC

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2018-01-31 22:02:40 UTC

All berffed frum da erff

2018-01-31 22:03:23 UTC

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2018-01-31 22:03:34 UTC

This is the best book I have on the topic

2018-01-31 22:03:38 UTC

Highly recommended

2018-01-31 22:03:43 UTC

Noice!

I was raising a bunch of animals the past few year, but kept having issues with dogs.

Im just gonna do a massive garden this year, and maybe do a couple pigs again.

2018-01-31 22:04:03 UTC

@Fash Dragon

Can u get that book on pdf?

2018-01-31 22:04:30 UTC

I could try to find it. It's more of an encyclopedia than anything

2018-01-31 22:05:10 UTC

See I'm a forester and homesteading is a major hobby of mine

2018-01-31 22:05:36 UTC

I would be happy to share my different recipes if there's a way to do so in an organized fashion

2018-01-31 22:05:44 UTC

Nice!

2018-01-31 22:06:51 UTC

As well as some general redneck engineering

2018-01-31 22:07:15 UTC

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2018-01-31 22:07:25 UTC

This is literally my bathroom sink

2018-01-31 22:07:44 UTC

Ha!

2018-01-31 22:10:49 UTC

Meat is murder

2018-01-31 22:11:43 UTC

I raised meat rabbits for a couple years...I will say it made me sad when I had to kill em...felt better once they were in muh belly

2018-01-31 22:12:43 UTC

How much land you on?

2018-01-31 22:13:08 UTC

A bit over a acre (cleared), but I have a few more acres of woods that are at my disposal

2018-01-31 22:13:50 UTC

@John Mosby Rabbit meat?

2018-01-31 22:14:07 UTC

I don't know if that will give you a lot of meat.....

2018-01-31 22:14:33 UTC

I'm coming down on the 17th. Would you permit me to take a tour of the property? I could show you a couple wild food sources if you like

2018-01-31 22:14:37 UTC

Unless you've got one of the giant ones the size of a dog.

2018-01-31 22:14:41 UTC

@Dangerlurking

Ya, Rabbit meat is one of the best meats there is...super high in protein, and their poop is the BEST for composting (u technically dont even have to compost it, as it is so clean).

2018-01-31 22:15:11 UTC

@Fash Dragon

Most definitely

U can crash at my place, too, if u want

2018-01-31 22:15:23 UTC

wish I could come down

2018-01-31 22:16:01 UTC

@John Mosby I was hoping so!

2018-01-31 22:16:42 UTC

@Dangerlurking

I was raising Californian Rabbits, and u actually get a decent amount of meat off of them.

You pretty much kill the kits, as soon as they ween, which will net u a bit of meat, but if u kill a few, then that is plenty for a stew that will last a few days...cleaning rabbits takes only a few minutes, too

2018-01-31 22:17:27 UTC

Yhea, I doubt you can feed a whole group with just rabbit meat.

2018-01-31 22:18:31 UTC

That's the first time I have seen discord censor an image.

2018-01-31 22:18:46 UTC

It just depends how many u raise...the term "fucking like rabbits" doesn't just come outa nowhere.

I started with 3 breeding pairs, and could hardly keep up with all the babies they produced, and keep producing at a constant rate.

2018-01-31 22:19:12 UTC

Which brings into issue the food supply for them.

2018-01-31 22:19:34 UTC

I put them in a rabbit tractor, and they just ate my grass...no money required to feed em.

2018-01-31 22:19:47 UTC

In a what?

2018-01-31 22:20:31 UTC

Really? I thought you would have had to gotten something like hay.

2018-01-31 22:21:19 UTC

A bit in the winter, cuz the grass grows slowly, but I let my grass grow super long, before winter hits, so I have an abundant supply during the slowest growing months.

2018-01-31 22:21:52 UTC

I would be concerned about them getting drenched in freezing cold water if you let them out during the winter.

2018-01-31 22:22:11 UTC

I say to feed all the rabbits, I probably spent less than $100 a year (I supplemented them with some hay and pellets during the winter).

2018-01-31 22:22:40 UTC

I covered the top with a tarp.

Winter is no problem for them...the summer can be a bitch...I lost a few to flies one year

2018-01-31 22:23:08 UTC

Yhea, flies are naturally attracted to shit, and they shit like nothing on earth.

2018-01-31 22:24:02 UTC

Ya, I would move the cage a couple times a day, and collect the shit for the garden, after I moved it.

What got my rabbits is when they had babies one time, the flies got to em before I knew they were getting attacked.

2018-01-31 22:24:36 UTC

Wait, have you tried setting up fly net's around the cages so they can't get to them?

2018-01-31 22:24:46 UTC

I never did...

2018-01-31 22:24:57 UTC

Mate what the fuck.

2018-01-31 22:25:01 UTC

I only had a problem one time, out of over 2 years.

2018-01-31 22:25:16 UTC

That's like being asked to be eaten alive by flies and mosquito's.

2018-01-31 22:25:59 UTC

Nah, they generally did fine.

We dont have many mosquitoes here...if u live somewhere with a bunch of em, then u probably would need to put up a net.

2018-01-31 22:26:11 UTC

Yhea, I do.

2018-01-31 22:26:29 UTC

We also get tons of ticks that have a fairly good chance of having lyme disease as well.

2018-01-31 22:27:14 UTC

We get ticks sometimes, but the rabbits seemed to be pretty resistant to them...I rarely found ticks on them, and I would handle them all the time, to keep em docile.

2018-01-31 22:27:52 UTC

During the late summer, and all of fall, the ticks are EVERYWHERE in west NYS.

2018-01-31 22:28:20 UTC

That sucks...I freaking HATE ticks...the worst are chiggers, though

2018-01-31 22:28:33 UTC

Chiggers?

2018-01-31 22:28:58 UTC

Little bugs that get under your skin...they are the WORST

2018-01-31 22:29:27 UTC

I don't think we get them here.

2018-01-31 22:29:56 UTC

Thank God we dont get em here, either.

I got em BAD in Missouri before, though

2018-01-31 22:30:35 UTC

"They are not present, or barely found, in far northern areas" HAH.

2018-01-31 22:31:53 UTC

I'd never live anywhere those things are prolific...they definitely came from to bowels of Hell.

2018-01-31 22:32:46 UTC

I woulden't doubt that if you purposefully went out into the swamp and dug through all of the mush and dirt in there you could find a few, but they are only prevalent in tropical and very moist area's, which we don't get in NYS.

2018-01-31 22:33:34 UTC

The only time it get's extremely moist around here is during the summer before a big thunderstorm strikes.

2018-01-31 22:34:27 UTC

It gets pretty wet here, but we are lucky to not really have em.

2018-01-31 22:34:37 UTC

Even when I lived in Houston we didn't have them

2018-01-31 22:34:46 UTC

Who know's, they might become more prevalent as time goes on.

2018-01-31 22:34:53 UTC

DONT SAY THAT

2018-01-31 22:35:12 UTC

They will hear u

2018-01-31 22:35:12 UTC

Ticks were fairly uncommon here, but soon the population exploded and they became very prevalent.

2018-01-31 22:35:31 UTC

We had a BAD tick problem last year, but we generally dont get them much

2018-01-31 22:36:19 UTC

I remember I had maps from the CDC that showed the tick population from like 2012 to now, and it shows how much the tick population has grown.

2018-01-31 22:36:52 UTC

Ill tell u what are spreading across the States, bad, are freaking fire ants.

2018-01-31 22:37:10 UTC

Fire ants?

2018-01-31 22:38:06 UTC

Sounds like an arizona, california, and texas thing.

2018-01-31 22:51:44 UTC

They are making their way across the states...they are now popping up in TN.

2018-01-31 23:04:29 UTC

@John Mosby you got armadillos there yet?

2018-01-31 23:04:43 UTC

We got them down in SoIL

2018-01-31 23:05:08 UTC

@John Mosby I doubt they will make up to NYS though, the climate is too hostile for them.

2018-01-31 23:07:58 UTC

The species migration is the only thing that really makes me wonder about global warming

2018-01-31 23:09:06 UTC

It has happened all the time and will continue to do so.

2018-01-31 23:11:46 UTC

@Fash Dragon

We had a TON in TX, but haven't seen any in East TN.

2018-01-31 23:12:05 UTC

@John Mosby Tell me about the fire ants.

2018-01-31 23:12:15 UTC

@Dangerlurking

Scientists have said that fire ants will make it all the way up to Alaska, as they are so resistance to the elements.

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