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Well my arm is healing well enough that I can shoot a rifle and do minor tasks. I had a wild sheep come out of the bush and chew the tops of my native trees I had planted on my land !! Two back legs for roasting and the rest was boned out into sausages. Pretty sure I have a couple of hundred...

I use pork fat in the sausages, I get it from people who raise pigs, and I save it myself if I shoot a wild pig. The deer here are extremely lean as most are. The Bicep tendon seems to be healing well after surgery, I can't lift anything with that arm until Jan 31st and then will begin physio...

This has been a way I always save money. I just processed my last load of venison I had in the freezer. 28 pounds of Venison sausages, I dont expect they will last long though..I love sausages.

I have some venison in the freezer to last me a while, I have been on a carnivore diet for a couple of years now and dont really want to veer from it, I might have to a bit though 😄. Oh well, Its the middle of Spring so The vegetable garden will be in full swing very soon...Tomatoes ! 🤤

I am not sure what I will do for food over the next few months, I ruptured my bicep tendon so I can't go hunting or diving for about 3 months ☹️.

I haven't been able to check in on this forum in a while, I am right now building a pole barn on my property. It is 7.2m wide 6m deep. 3.6m high at the front sloping down to 3m at the back. I will put solar panels on the roof. I will also be living in it once completed and then will begin on my...

I just thought I would put this here just for anyones interest. Wild breed sheep are popular here in NZ due to their hardiness, I have had both Pitt Island sheep and Arapawa sheep, they self shed their fleece, will survive on just about anything, and they dont bleat. Arapawa goats are now one of...

When I have raised pigs I treated them just like I would a dog, good quality food/water, somewhere warm and dry to sleep, shade in the summer, worming them. They do get lonely because of their intelligence so having two is a lot better. They are a very clean animal so new bedding on a regular...

I used to have an old fridge I would quarter and hang meat in, it worked ok. I will be building an insulated chiller shed on my land, I should be able to pick up a large air con unit to cool it.

nice antlers. The most common deer here to hunt is red deer, a 12 pointer is considered a trophy. But I have shot a lot of 10 pointers way bigger than my 12's.

At the moment I would leave to my block of land if things got that bad, all of my hunting gear is together and I believe I could thrown it all in the back of my 4x4 in probably 20 minutes. All going to plan I will be living on my land by December, so once there I won't be leaving as it is/will...

Its purely for bug treatment, the timber won't be exposed to damp or wet anywhere.

I boil mine if I want them cleaned in a hurry, the cooked meat/sinew peels off really easily, no need to have a special pot to do this, its just meat at the end of the day. Or if they are average heads I skin the whole skull and put them on my shed roof and let the fly maggots clean them up.

She looks very pleased with herself, well done. What calibre ?

Very nice, is that White tail or Mule deer ? We have White Tail here way down the bottom of the country on an Island called Stewart Island, I haven't been there yet. My butchery is fairly basic, Steaks and everything else is processed into sausages which I do myself.

Thanks, I was thinking I will brush it on or make a bath and soak the logs to really give it a good covering. I haven't used Borax before but from what I have read its cheap and works well.

Has anyone used Borax or a combination of Borax/Pyrethrum to protect against Borer ? I will be making my own cabin with both commercially treated framing timber and some trees I will be harvesting myself to use internally (not external framing or exposed anywhere to the weather)

Sounds like a great spot you are living. I shot two deer a couple of days ago, should see me right for a few weeks.

I was looking through some of my photos while browsing the site and saw this thread. This is a walk I went up the Blue springs river on my last trip to the Hobbiton film set..my 5th visit to the Hobbiton film set 😁

I love the heart, Liver and Kidney I use in a stew. I have never eaten the lungs.