Member coyotech
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Summerhat-n-Chicks, you don’t have to boil water for hours to kill germs. It would evaporate if you tried. If you get the water up to a boil and turn it off, it’s fine. If you want water that’s really purified from everything without buying a water filter, you could distill it. That’s energy intensive, but effective.
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I had goats, but I sold them before I moved. I don’t have any for now, but I do plan on getting goats again, once I’m set up better for it. I had some alpine, and a mix of mixed goats. They were milk, meat, brush control and entertainment. TA friend of mine has quite a few goats and I buy goat milk and bucks for meat from her, and we talk about goats a lot. Glad when I can have a little herd again!
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I’m pretty good on anti-biotics. I have various fish antibiotics along with herbal ones like oregano, golden seal and osha. Variety is good, because different cures work better for different things.
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Hah, even in the day I couldn’t do 20 miles in a day, especially without issue! If I were running for my life, I could have probably made it then collapsed 😁
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More power to you. 😉 There are people here who manage that, too! It depends a lot on your circumstances. If you are young, and especially if you also have family, you can go farther out and build up a bigger place. You can start a real farm or ranch, even if a small one, get some business going on your place and actually stay under the radar easier. I’m a single old lady building my place with limited means, planning for when I become a much older lady! A lot of people are doing that kind of thing, too. In that case I decided that even though I’d love to have a few hundred acres out in the desert or mountains and be completely independent, it was wiser for me to stay closer to other people. Which means radar avoiding is harder. I picked a spot that was pretty far from incorporated towns, where most of the people thought the same way, but there were roads, some paved, and I could get a tow from a friend if my truck broke down. I didn’t know about the street address requirement when I moved to this state … I wanted to point out that you can run into restrictions that you didn’t expect. Even though I bought land free of covenants and municipal restrictions in a county with the best reputation around for letting people do what they want, I ran into some.
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Here, you can’t get a license or register your vehicles without a street address. I had hoped to just use my PO box and work out about deliveries, but it was getting too complicated. I found I was a little too close to the radar to fly under it indefinitely.
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4 years ago I paid $630 per acre for my 9.5 acres of raw land. I found it through one of the raw land sale sites. Land in the area jumped up much higher the next year. While a bigger lot would have been even cheaper per acre, I couldn’t afford more and couldn’t get the same kind of owner finance (without a down payment) deal like I got. I also didn’t have that long to search. I had to get some land and move onto it, ready or not! It all worked out fine. I like the land, I like the location, it’s paid for, and it’s enough. But certainly, if you can afford more and have more time to look, a bigger lot is almost always a better deal, and you might find something that’s really a great deal if you’re not in a hurry. As for restrictions, I was looking for no restrictions and didn’t find that. My lot has county requirements and restrictions. Not many, but enough to make it more complicated and expensive. But that’s what counties are for. If you have a really big lot really far out, you can probably get away without county interference. If you don’t want to order online and want to take your chances about DMV stuff, you can skip getting an address. But mine wasn’t quite far enough out, and I finally gave in to the desire for a street address so that I could get deliveries and mail, a drivers license and such things. However, my county will let you build like you want as long as you have a diverter for your kitchen sink. They’re weird about that. Don’t have to have a flush toilet, can use whatever building material you want, just have your kitchen sink drain into a barrel. And the building has to be minimum about 400 SF with a bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. That’s how they define a house in order to grant you an address. 😜
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You make emergency medicines up in advance, the same as you try to do other things in advance. Also, what I do for new cures is to try them as strong teas. If I see they are working and I like them, I’ll make up a tincture. You have to have the herbs on hand, though. I’ve got quite a few. The best is to learn what grows naturally in your area, or that you can get or grow easily where you are. There are some things I use a lot that I can’t grow or make at home. Those I try to keep stocked up on.
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Yes, they’re concentrated as herbs go, but it takes a lot to over do it. I use them for me and the animals, and wouldn’t worry about giving them to children. The droppers don’t usually pick up a lot at a time. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries if I want to get a whole dropper full. I’d have to work hard to overdose! Now if you wanted to use a spoon rather than a dropper, you’d probably take about a 1/2 spoon for an adult, and 1/4 spoon for a child.
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I was thinking the same way, based on my observations and experience. Livestock and pets can drink the same as the wild animals, from ponds, streams and ditches. Most livestock ponds I’ve seen are just big holes dug in the dirt to collect or hold water, and not lined or filtered. When they’re lined it’s to keep water from soaking away into the ground rather than for keeping it clean. Maybe it’s different in other parts of the country.
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For fishmox and such things I’m not sure. That would take some calculating, which I haven’t done. Herbs don’t require a certain dose. You put some in tea, take a dropper of extract, stir a spoon in food, etc. They don’t hurt unless you take a whole bunch … like don’t chug a bottle of tincture, don’t eat a pound of dried herbs or half the rosemary bush. 😉 But if you take a full dropper vs a half one, it’s not going to make you sick. Essential oils, like oregano oil, tea tree oil and so on aren’t meant to be taken internally from what I’ve heard. I don’t use those as much, mainly for steams and salves. Externally also no dosing. It’s full strength. You rub it on, lay on the poultice, smell it or whatever. Some herbs do need a little caution and knowledge. Some shouldn’t be taken with certain prescription medicines (blood pressure and blood thinners are the usual ones), some not by pregnant women. Occasionally you can be sensitive to a popular and common herb and get nausea or a rash from it. In that case, don’t use it. Take a small amount of any new remedy and see how it does for you.
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Just general trash isn’t a problem, but in my old place I had a fence covered with corrugated roofing, and they can and probably will cut themselves on stuff like that. Also, horrible, I had some rebar sticking up in one part of the yard and a doe caught her udder on it and ripped it real badly. So watch out for those kinds of hazardous things.
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LOL, no. He’s probably married, and way too young for me!
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Everybody wants to avoid those kinds of work if they possibly can. You have to pay people for that, and even then you might have trouble getting someone to do it.
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True, good to offer – it might be needed. And if not, the worst that will happen is they turn it down. It takes some practice to recognize when help might be helpful, actually. If you’re not used to looking for ways to help (outside the very obvious situations), you don’t see them. I think that’s good training for kids, not to mention adults who might want to just do a little better.