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Finished digging the last of five holes for my windturbine and anchors points. 4x4x4; not convinced it was worth it, but it was too expensive for a small backhoe so my back did it. Went to a farm consignment auction today, I guess at this point yesterday, and spent too much money but saved a...

Thankyou for the support youall and yes I could tell some jerry-rig stories. Might be lessons in what not to do though.

I was very young, just shy of four years old, but I have little snippets of memory of the journey to BC. Mountains are very memoriable when you are born and raised on prairie. It was very cold, although I was later told that it was late spring. It turned out that the truck and supplies were...

26 chicks hatched from the first lot. 2nd lot is due Sunday. Set another 60. Had 8 goose eggs that may be fertile but no room in the bators, so they are wrapped in a towel under the brooder lamp with the chicks. Temp. seems about right so its just wait and see. I have not hatched goose eggs...

In the olden days they first hopped a boat and crossed the big water. Later they loaded up the wagons and headed west. You can still find the standard supply lists suggested for that migration and they very closely resemble some modern preppers lists for hard times, minus the wagon wheels and...

Actually, I already rethunk this and edited my post. I guess you are up kind of late too. I am a strange duck but I am made by the memories and I will probably die by them although the junk has lost its hold for the most part.

Dad was a character in our younger years, but unfortunately, events happened in my parents lives which changed them forever and not for the better. We were not part of a cult or anything like that. My parents immigrated to Canada from Montana in 1963 to take part in Canada's last offering of...

You can make a basic spit by using a couple of y branches with the chicken on a stick across them over the fire. If you want a sturdier arrangement, use large branches sharpened and pounded about a foot and half into the ground. The tricky bit is balancing the chicken so it doesn't flop back to...

Dad had this carved into the door of our outhouse. Here I sit forlorn and grey, While my City cousins get a nickel a play. Someone had told him about going to the city and seeing a pay toilet.

Beekissed, It seems that folks in the Interior of British Columbia were a little more paranoid about fire then in your neck of the woods. We were probably a bit loony as well. Our yards were cleared of trees and none were allowed near a building with a fire. Forest fires were pretty scarey...

In most cases thats all it is; an expression from books like Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons. Punishment happens on the spot in most families. Wood sheds were full of wood and if a punishment took place there, it was most likely in the form of chopping the stuff. Physical punishment...

5.00 and they have to drive 2 hours to get them as we are not allowed to deliver. I upped the price to 5.50 if they don't bring back the cartons. I get 7.00 for duck eggs and it looks like they may be worth a bit more. There us a Greek community in the big city who wants the real deal. I am...

One out 3 pipping and 40 to wait and see. They be preemies.

I grew up with an outhouse only. My dad dug a 15' deep hole. He dug a new hole next to the old hole every summer and used the dirt to fill in the old hole. Our outhouse never smelled but it got further away from the house every year. My dad was not stupid. He also located the outhouse so that...

My first batch went into lock down today. In 5 days my second batch will go into lockdown in the hatching bator and I will then set one more lot. Then its shut down for one month and then one more hatching depending on how many the first 3 lots produce.

We just had a major wind storm blow through. Power was down for 2 days and some places are still down. Even with my windmill down for replacement from last springs windstorm, my solar panels and batteries kept the lights from flickering and the freezers on without a glitch. The back up generator...

This is a western version of Nasi Goreng. Very high end but tasty. Most Indonesians cannot afford all that meat and shrimp. They will usually just have a goat or chicken run through it and add lots of hot sauce. I lived in Jakarta for 2 years. Indonesian food for the average Joe is mostly...

Candled my eggs last night. (day 7) So far, 44 eggs still good so even though some of them were close to freezing and others very cold when collected, it doesn't seem to matter. Some being 10-14 days old is not being problematic either. What seems to be doing the trick is plenty of roosters and...

I don't think any of these things. I like Cx and find they are pretty much like regular chickens with really suck up personalities.. I feed high protein to all my chickens as they just plain do better; growing, feathers, health, eggs and fertility. I also do not feed commercial; I feed corn...

I am with Pinkfox and Beekissed on this one. I personally do not see it as suitable housing for a flock of chickens. It would be buried in snow here, impossible to feed and water or protect the feed and water from varmits. Would attract varmits thinking it was suitable housing for them. Not...