Member Wilburs-Place
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FLIP THE SWITCH!
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Zone 8A here! I’m in!
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Go to jasemedical.com and order antibiotics. You will receive five different types of antibiotics and an instruction manual. One of the best decisions I think I made for myself. They now offer orders for children as well. I will be placing an order for my grandchildren next.
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From day one with my chicks, I always add oregano oil to their waterers. They also have other waterers with apple cider vinegar. This helps with infections/worms. I recommend quarantining your sick chicken. Good luck with your chicken and the rest of your flock.
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Rehomed pepper plants, goji berry, moringa tree, lemon tree and herbs to the greenhouse for the winter and almost finished planting the fall raised bed kitchen garden.
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I have been in the VA medical system for the past 20 years. I have been fighting my way out of the cracks they keep trying to push me in that entire time. That being said, I am grateful for the care I do receive. It is the ultimate pain in the ass…. Hurry up and wait still applies! LOL! Thank you for your service to all my fellow vets!
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I’m right there with you. 54 years young Grandma in Hertford county North Carolina (Northeast North Carolina). I started my solo self-sufficient journey about 4 years ago. I sold everything I had, including the house I raised my kids in. Became 100% debt-free two years ago. I “considered a field” and I bought it! Just finished harvesting and putting to bed my summer garden. Most of my winter garden is in. I have a flock of 15 chickens now. I am waiting on the last four biddies to start laying. I am studying about the care and keeping of either goats or pigs at this time. I have been pressure canning and putting back whatever I can for the past year. I have spent this past year preparing for the zombie apocalypse! I am tired. I feel alone on most days but, I keep planting anyway. Part of me wonders at times if I’ve over prepared and at other times I wake up in the middle of the night afraid I haven’t prepared enough. Food, water, shelter, security, clothing, heating and cooling, tea leaf reading! LOL! The checklist seems endless sometimes. To all the single ladies out there doing it ALL, I salute you. Together, we got this!
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Definitely a lemon cucumber! I planted two seeds this year. They were so prolific they took over! I had to feed a lot of them to my chickens! Not that I’m complaining. I made dill and bread and butter pickles out of a lot of them and they came out awesome!
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That sounds great! I’m trying really hard to step up my gardening game this year by expanding the gardens and starting a lot of my seeds indoors instead of direct planting a majority of them.
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I don’t think it falls down. It’s another supply that may come in handy in addition to other options you may choose to use.
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You spoke right to my heart when you made the comment about having to make a choice working outside in the yard/garden or working inside. I bought a fixer upper on some acres. Everything is dated and the kitchen is halfway demolished at this time. I am replacing windows slowly one at a time because the hours in the day do not allow me to replace windows and look after my garden and chickens at the same time! There is definitely a unique struggle to prioritizing when you’re doing it all yourself!
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I love the idea of using a boat for a raised bed! Congratulations on your baby chicks!
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That’sThat’s great! I live just south of the line in Hertford county. My kids are in Suffolk and Whaleyville….
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Thank you! I’m in North Carolina. I will start looking for American guinea hogs in my area see what the availability is like.
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Good to know! I will research those pigs tomorrow! This might sound like a dumb question but, do you get a sire for your pig? Like dog breeders do? I only want to start out with one or two pigs for meat purposes. But, should I decide on trying to sell piglets, how does one go about doing that?