Member 3ADscout
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I sell to a friend that owns a jewelry store. I normally don’t sell but when it get high I occasionally sell a few shekels to buy something for the homestead. Frankly I think manufactured goods will have a better value that gold or silver when things go south. Not that good and silver won’t be useful but I don’t think it will be as in demand as some think it will be.
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So with electric prices going sky high I really am not looking forward to using an electric water heater for the animal’s water. I didn’t have power in my barn last year and I hauled water from the house to the barn. Broke the ice up in the morning and evening. I was given a small industrial air pump and I was thinking I could use it as a Bubbler that would move the water enough so that it would t freeze so quickly and should take a lot less electric to run it. I have seen bubblers used around boats left in the water over the winter so they don’t get frozen in the ice and the work. I’ll find out soon enough since it is getting colder everyday.
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Our wood/coal cook stove is out in our pole barn. Waiting to put it in the summer kitchen but I won’t even think about starting it until lumber prices come back down to earth.
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I really have found a Pulse Oximeter to be another good tool and they are not expensive. I couldn’t tell by the photos but is your BP set all integrated or is the stethoscope separate? If it is all integrated I would have a separate stethoscope for listening to heart lungs etc. I’m a big fan of Vet wrap.
I tend to have allergies when I cut grass or hay. I have found a Neti Pot reduces the need for drugs.
Did you have an analog thermometer?
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So I was mistaken, the castration is next week, we did teeth and iron shots. I would not say they are descended. No piggies for me yet.
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Sow had a nice litter of pigs- one didn’t make it through the birthing process and we have lost another one on day two and another one today (day three). Look to be runts. All got teeth nipped and their first Iron shot. The sow went after my wife yesterday – big mistake since the wife wants to make sausage out of her now. We will probably end up keeping one of the gilts out of this litter.
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3ADscout Here. Pretty much started prepping when I was a teen in the 1980’s. At that t time I would read magazines like “Survive”, “American Survival Guide” and “SOF”. After high school I joined the army. I was an 11H, anti-armor, and went to Jump school, Air Assault school and got my Combat Infantry Man’s badge in Desert Storm. Units I was in were the 101st Airborne (Air Assault), 3rd Armored Division, 24th Mechanized and the PA national guard. When I left active duty I started to volunteer with the Red Cross and a few other local disaster response organizations. In 2015 the wife and I purchased what we thought would be our retirement/BOL but moved there full time in the summer of 2019. Today we have 2 heifer calves, one steer, a pregnant pig (due in 4 days) and currently 24 chickens. We try to make our place disaster resilient as possible projects include a large 2,000 gallon rain catchment system, outdoor pizza/bread oven, much of our haying equipment is ground drive so if need be it can be pulled by animals. We have apples trees, peach tree, elderberries and well blue berries but those were a disaster. Look forward to learning from you all. Thanks
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How long is your fence? What was your solar fencer rated for? I would search to see if other people have had issues with the particular model you have. I would do at least 2 strands since you don’t want to risk a cow (or whatever you have inside) getting out. I made a temporary Shute from the barn to the pasture with the plastic post using one strand and didn’t that steer get under that one strand! Lesson learned!!! Good luck!
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It is very nice to see that Dr Pry continues to be an influence. I had the honor to meet him at a conference for work and then we invited him to our community for a discussion of the EMP threat. I got to talk with him for a few hours about EMP and the short comings of some of the EMP testing. He will be sadly missed.
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I live near Amish and Mennonite communities and go to area Amish bent and dents. Normally one or two other cars there. Last time I went the parking lot was full about a dozen vehicles and it was a Friday afternoon –
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Yes it is, do you think I need to manually turn the eggs too?
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Yes I candle and when I dispose the unhatched eggs I break them to check, very smelly! Thanks for the reply!
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Yes I increase it from 55 to 70%. I’ll have to try the hydrogen peroxide: Thanks