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well it seems we have a type one in the family. now we have to plan meals and calculate carbs. it seems balanced meals with a serving of greens or two, a serving of starch, and then a protein seem to prevent sugar spikes and lows.....but of coarse i have 2 days experience so.. do any of you...

we have been talking alot about garden expansion. i really want raised beds but the price of lumber is crazy. just so happened that my kids boy scout troop is rebuilding a bunch of picnic tables for a park and they needed someone to haul off 2 truck loads of lumber. tonight the boys...

To date i have hatched out and raised around 400 chicks and have never had this issue. In the past couple weeks i have lost around 30. It all started when my daughter insisted i take a hatch of chicks from a friend of hers. The family was getting rid of all their chicks because of tickets from...

as usual they are tearing my garden to pieces. i didnt plant cucumber this yesr hoping they would leave but they just went after the green beans and okra. in my desperation i mixed up a brew of dish soap, peppermint oil and water and sprayed everything tonight in hopes of getting them knocked...

Another one bites the dust. 97 and counting. While the fire seems insignificant, it's part of a much larger issue of a spate of "accidental fires," one by one, taking out America's food supply chain over the past year. Here's a list of 97 so far: 1/11/21 A fire that destroyed a...

well feed costs are rising, i have materials laying around, and im thinking of building a rabbit tractor. do any of you have experience with rabbit tractors? got any designs you like?

this is a write up on my home cured bacon ATTEMPT. i have no idea how it will go. here are the directions from the box i got from Amazon.

someone is offering me free pot bellied pigs. im gonna take him up on it. whats the best feed for a feeder pig to taste good?

what do you guys keep a supply of now that weve been educated by the covid lock downs and shortages?.....besides the obvious rice and ammo? :lol: stuff for your car? how much gas, do you keep on hand just incase? fluids and filters? idk if yall noticed but motor oil prices are spiking high...

another one down. you cant eat horns!

she got her first deer today. pretty excited about meat for the freezer. we just had the last of our venison last week

seems wazine is out. ivermectine pour on for cattle is recommended for my birds by google. what do you all use?

seems the shortages are coming again. now its sugar in my area. ive been kinda lax on preps lately so i went and got 40 lbs of sugars, 20 lbs of flour, and a bunch of other odds and ends for baking and started packing it up today. while i was at it i grabbed the 20 lb bag of rice from the...

not the biggest harvest ever but its our first! very excited!

they all are turning brown on the tree. isnit bugs? what should i do next year to prevent it?

this is a propane heater and a regulator/fitting combo i got off amazon. with the bottle i habe less than $300 invested. the 20 lb propane bottle will run this heater for at least 12 hours straight. but it has a thermostat and cycles on and off as needed so im betting it will go 24 hours per...

picked this thing up used for $300. it's 5500 watts and just had a fresh tune up. then I bought 5 gas cans that were 5 gallons each and filled them up, along with the tank. treated all the fuel with sta-bil and marvel mystery oil. the most important thing is the fuel cans are sealed and air...

ok I'm gonna make a prediction. I predict the housing market will crash again, but we won't really notice until 2022-23. just like before the market crashed but it took a while for the ripples to spread. I was still building projects in Dallas in 2010, but the 08 recession finally hit hard...

had some time today and there's some weather comin. put about 2 feet of hay in the coup and cleaned out the next boxes. WHAT do you guys do for cold weather?

so we got it. we are doing everything we are supposed to do. been taking alot of vitamins and eating alot of chicken soup. we also eat one clove of garlic a day because I heard that boosts the immune system. you guys got any other ideas for remedies?