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I don’t sell eggs- so this is probably irrelevant, but I just put mine in (plastic…)coffee cans these days. they are washable, durable, easy to pick up and hold a bit over 2 dz. they are easy to arrange so you are adding to todays, and using a cople days ago first.

eggs don’t have to be in a carton.

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yeah, this is going to have a huge impact on my animals and my family. we are trying to buy up what we can, but not everything lasts forever, even if you have it. I’m almost out of antibiotics from 5 years ago when they made water-soluble antibiotics prescription only. so now if you get a lamb or calf with scours, you got to spend the money to take them to the vet for antibiotics, when it would have just been a few cents and a shot within a few minutes of noticing, now. your cow develops mastitis? can’t buy the infusion for it now. take your cow to the vet. don’t have a trailer/truck/$300 to pay for this trip? don’t have a livestock vet in the area? too bad. you shouldn’t have livestock then.

I believe it is a move to try to make owning livestock too expensive and decrease the number of small farms. because you know large operations already have a vet on staff to prescribe anything.

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my beans go bad after several years vacuum sealed into half-gallon canning jars, too. they wont absorb water anymore when cooking and are always ‘crunchy’ no matter how long you cook them. I hear if you grind them before you cook them you can make bean paste, but I just try to rotate out my jars and not loose one in the back of the cabinet. I’m not convinced most long term storage plans are actually practical unless you can put it in a freezer too. the food may still be edible, but what nutrition is left? will it taste good enough to want to eat it? whole grains get a rancid flavor after a few years too. if the seed has died and can no longer sprout, I consider it past it’s expiration date. often the chickens won’t even want to eat them.

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YouTube and the mechanics and do-it-yourselfers on there stepping you through repairs, diagnosis and problems is the only way I get alot of my vehicles running again. I suggest downloading really helpful videos on your model (or close to it) on things that you may need to do again. there are some really helpful people – if you follow their channel they’ll teach you about anything.

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I just run a strand of my electric fence wire along as ground – it’s alot less expensive than copper.

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Ah – your needs for one would be totally different than mine. I have a working septic tank and I have no need to conform to ‘regulations’ where I’m at. if I want to kill myself through stupidity, my county doesn’t care – and I’d want it no other way.

of course, if I were to try to compress and store excess I would need an expensive compressor and tanks made for that. you can buy a small compressor for a couple thousand – if I thought it was something that would be worth-while for me.

if you needed less gas, couldn’t you just feed it less or do some canning?

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I don’t know why we are so hellbent on making life harder for ourselves. but it is true. I was looking at a series of batch digesters, personally – linked together and bubbled through water into storage system of an ICB tote or two (set inside each other to float). but I haven’t made one, and I don’t have a first hand experience how that might go. could always try and find out (what I plan to do) I’d only be out a couple plastic barels and 2 ICB totes and some hose and a flashback (wich is super easy to make). it doesn’t have to be pretty, i just don’t want to pay for propane – and I got lots of stuff to feed one.

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If we don’t who would? It is do or die sometimes.

[Jen-in-Ok]

You are awesome! Thank you!

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LOL!

yup. that looks about right.

I’m stealing it!

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Whoo!! that’s good to hear! I’m glad you got most of them trough! I love Roselle tea.

It got down to 26° here, I think. even things I wrapped blankets around and covered up got frosted off. But- nothings dead- they just went to sleep early this year. not a problem, just wanted them to have that extra month before our next frost!

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Does putting them out on grass reduce the amount of feed pellets they eat in the summer?

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Wow!!! you have an epic set-up! thankyou so much for showing so many pictures! they really help for me to understand what you are doing with the bunnies! your “travel hutches” look like they would be easy to move around. is that just windowscreen under your winter hutch to catch the pellets?

one day I would like to have rabbits, but the ones we had permanently in a hutch as a kid got so messy underneath that i wouldn’t want to do it that way again. but you collecting all ‘fertilizer’ they produce for you there would make it so much less messy (and now useable!)

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I’m ok with a bit of stonger flavor. I’m going to have to try it. I’m tired of stuff getting lost in the deepfreeze and getting freezerburnt. thank you for doing the taste test!

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LOL!