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Post by feralemma on May 31, 2021 18:26:57 GMT 10
The near ubiquitous fault with discussions of this kind ... trying to rationalise survival ... is that very little thought goes into what kind of event results in a 95% or 99% or 74% "apocalyptic" reduction in the human population. When the death rate gets high, survival often hinges on one single factor: Luck. Just hope you're in the right place at the right time and do the right things as each challenge/crisis presents itself. I totally agree that survival in a scenario like that would be more about luck than anything else, and that key survival attributes would only come into play after the initial event. How would 80,000 people survive in Manhatten unless they were eating each other? And people in rural areas would at least have a head start as far as having regenerative food supplies. Also interesting to note I'm on a par with Amish women as far as average steps per day 🤣
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Post by feralemma on May 31, 2021 18:03:47 GMT 10
Just bang a screwdriver through the filter and use that as leverage to turn it.
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Post by feralemma on May 25, 2021 10:48:58 GMT 10
malewithatail makes a good point about bathroom visits and as far as water goes the idea of flushing after each visit is a no no for us. We have two long drop toilets that reduce wasteful water usage particularly when the family stays. Living off the grid can make a big difference but like most things the hardware will not last forever. With water, food and a comfortable house even in times of crisis life can be bearable to pleasant. In times of real crisis I would have no idea how the townies would cope. Another option for waste disposal (ie not having to use water to flush the dunny) is a burning toilet. Toilet made from half a 44 gallon drum with an appropriate sized hole cut in the lid, and placed onto the ground. Once a day, or as needed, burnable stuff is placed into the toilet and lit up to dispose of all the waste in there. Obviously needs to be a little way from the house! Or the old fashioned toilet pan that pulls out from under the toilet and can be emptied. Maybe into a biogas digester 😉
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Post by feralemma on May 21, 2021 18:03:42 GMT 10
They obviously can't monitor every inch of state border lines, but there really are only so many possible routes in and out of states as a lot of the land is fenced into agricultural properties. It's a bit different when you get out into the desert, but you have to be confident on your abilities to do that and still have to enter properties in order to get back onto most roads.
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Post by feralemma on May 21, 2021 17:59:47 GMT 10
My advice is
Don't be a dick neighbour
Educate yourself about standard farming and production practices before mouthing off about your objections to them
Join in your local community and support local businesses where possible
And don't discount the farmers wives. Most of them are so much more than "just wives", and believe me they do not just fanny about and bake scones. A lot of them are farmers in their own right, as well as having a whole range of other education, qualifications and skills ranging from veterinary surgeons to jewellers to mechanics and agronomists.
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Post by feralemma on May 21, 2021 17:53:31 GMT 10
Argentina has blocked the export of beef for the next 30 days in order to bring the price down locally so that Argentinians can afford to buy meat......guess who one of their major importers is? The same country that abruptly blocked the import of Australian beef not long ago in order to try and crash our export beef industry the same way they did our export dairy industry! Expect beef prices to go up locally if they suddenly decide our produce is up to standards again.
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Post by feralemma on May 6, 2021 10:50:55 GMT 10
I'm slightly jealous of all the native/wild edibles you have available to you Tim Horton. Even if they do require heavy fire power to protect yourself from the also-edible competition for them!
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Post by feralemma on Mar 31, 2021 18:00:55 GMT 10
I'm with Tim Horton in that I would rather people not know where we are or what we have, other than those we are already close to. The excepetion to that is that I wouldn't have a problem taking items into town (mostly meat or grain) in order to sell or trade them.
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Post by feralemma on Mar 22, 2021 19:26:06 GMT 10
This must be in conjunction with 2 of Australias remaining oil refineries being shut down in the last 5 months
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Post by feralemma on Mar 22, 2021 19:22:39 GMT 10
Rural areas are screwed regardless. Urbanites have no idea of the resources that sustain them but they feel free to sling mud at farming and agriculture and call them unacceptable carbon emitters. They believe they are self sufficient because they can grow a pot of herbs on a window sill, brew their komb!tcha and buy seeds, nuts and mushrooms from their hip local grocer. They believe they are green cause that’s how they vote and they have LED lights. This all the while surrounded by millions of tons of steel, concrete, huge electricity and fuel users, food and luxury consumers as well as living among heavily polluted waterways and atmosphere. . Now they realise cities are unhealthy shitholes, they are spreading out to rural areas bringing their BS with them. These same people are the ones letting out stock from peoples properties because they disagree with farming, meat etc. Go to Mullumbimby or Byron, that is the epicentre of farkwittery. Tell me I’m wrong! The one that gets me the most is those that tell you they only buy organic produce from the local market so they don't need farmers.....hahahahahaha fukn morons have no idea that organic produce is grown on farms and by farmers 🙄
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Post by feralemma on Mar 17, 2021 13:43:08 GMT 10
Chinese machinery has proven that it doesn't have the manufacturing quality (or even the physical weight to get the job done in the case of pay loaders) and the after sales service is usually terrible and parts are hard to get. Buyers have been burnt so are spending their money where they get value for it! Its a funny thing with the Chinese made stuff i mean they are the masters of copying everything but still make cheap junk and a good example of this is Caterpillar loaders are made in china especially the 972m series and i mean made and assembled in china whereas a 330f cat excavator is made in japan. you cant tell the difference in build quality between the machines so you would think the Chinese would be like ok this is how you make good gear I don't think it's a lack of capability or technology, it's the care factor of zero and the drive for maximum profit!
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Post by feralemma on Mar 17, 2021 13:38:24 GMT 10
Fear mongering keeps the population predictable and compliant 😉
Also it seems like the only stock photos of farming that news outlets own are of livestock when the article is about fruit & veg production 🙄
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Post by feralemma on Mar 17, 2021 13:31:21 GMT 10
Just put in aplastic septic tank for the toilet (easy to manouver yourself compared to concrete) and as spinifex said send all the grey water out onto fruit trees or lawn.
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Post by feralemma on Mar 17, 2021 13:26:26 GMT 10
Very happy to see the member for our area, who is a National, has retained his seat. He has stood up for his electorate and fought for us against the extremely city-centric Labor govt throughout the last 3 1/2 years. That's unusual for an MP in a safe seat. Normally safe MPs will toe the party line and not give a sheet about their constituents. This whole thing is very bad for democracy. WA now effectively has a dictator like Victoria. Controlling both houses is not a good thing for anyone. We all went toe to toe with the state govt 3 years ago over the boarding college our kids go to when they wanted to shut it down and he did everything he could to keep the fight up, including going to his federal countetparts in the end. Tbh it's probably why he retained his seat this time round! Yeah, it's not going to go well for the rural areas of the state especially 😪
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Post by feralemma on Mar 16, 2021 16:33:46 GMT 10
Very happy to see the member for our area, who is a National, has retained his seat. He has stood up for his electorate and fought for us against the extremely city-centric Labor govt throughout the last 3 1/2 years.
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Post by feralemma on Mar 7, 2021 10:30:50 GMT 10
Interesting comment re Chinese stuff. A mate of mine runs a agricultural machinery import business and farmers are now refusing to buy Chinese stuff. He is now looking at Indian gear, or Italian farm machinery as alternatives. I think there is backlash starting to happen against Chinese stuff, and its about time. I don't know what weapons will be used in the next war, but in the war after the next, surer than hell, they will be using spears. Chinese machinery has proven that it doesn't have the manufacturing quality (or even the physical weight to get the job done in the case of pay loaders) and the after sales service is usually terrible and parts are hard to get. Buyers have been burnt so are spending their money where they get value for it!
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Post by feralemma on Feb 19, 2021 15:39:57 GMT 10
I gunna engage in some thread necromancy and breathe life into a dead thread rather than start a new one. Today I entered into a verbal agreement to buy 10 3week old jap quail and 2 dozen fertile eggs. *sigh* What can I say? I once said I would NEVER own birds or animals who couldn't reproduce on their own. Yeah, never say never in this instance. You see my council states I can't own a rooster. There's no council by-laws about owning ducks. I can own ducks and I have 12 khaki campbells and the females are LOUD. Seriously, seriously LOUD. The free loading duck-ups (as I call them) eat a lot. In the time it takes 12 chickens to eat 2 kgs of food the ducks have ripped through a 10 ltr buckets worth - 1.5 days.. 12 chickens will drink 10 lts of water every 4 days depending on temp. 12 ducks go through 20 + litres of water every damned day. After so many months of pouring expensive food and water down their necks I am only now starting to get 1 ONE egg a day. Excuse me while I try to curb my unbridled excitement. I wanted Khaki campbell ducks because when it's really hot chickens go off the lay. When it's "winter" the chickens moult and go off the lay. I wanted something that could cope with the weather and fill the egg gaps. Also I wanted a good source of fat. Fat is the one thing that is extremely difficult to produce on a small homestead. I know I am going to have to seriously cull my duck numbers to make them viable. In a SHTF situation ducks are not an ideal small livestock because of the sheer amount of resources the use unless they are kept in a small breeding group and their eggs are put under a broody hen to hatch out for the purpose of harvesting fat and meat as a secondary by-product. I live in Queensland and so rabbits aren't an option so I tried the next best thing...guinea pigs. Female guinea pigs in my area run at $20 each. Males can be picked up for around $10. Their gestation is LONG. 62 days. Number of young can range from 1 to 4. But here's the thing, in my climate guinea pigs are very fragile creatures. They cope with a cooler temps well but we have a lot more hot months than we do cool. Guinea pigs suffer greatly during the sweltering summer. They fall over dead from heat stroke and it's too cruel to breed the female in summer because they abort from the stress and then die. Back to quail. This, like all other attempts is an experiment to see what works in my climate and in my context. I have two incubators and the drive at the moment is to buy a 12volt model that can be run off my solar system. It;s one thing to grandstand and say something is a good idea. It's another to actually field test it and see if it works in reality. You have the wrong type of ducks 😉 Muscoveys are quiet, lay brilliantly, are good meat birds and excellent mothers. You can buy grain by the tonne to make feeding them cheaper but yes they are messy, dirty, smelly and require lots of water! Jumbo quail are great for meat, not the best sitters or parents tho but an Australorp hen is very good substitute for an incubator.....and will savage anything that goes near her babies. Remember the quail chicks require very high protein feed as they grow so quickly do need game bird starter rather than the standard chick starter. Guinea pig babies are too cute to eat 🤣
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Post by feralemma on Jan 23, 2021 19:51:33 GMT 10
Good score! And the bacon replacer sounds yum 😊
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Post by feralemma on Jan 23, 2021 19:49:53 GMT 10
Is it because of increased feeding by humans alone or are there other underlying problems like a lack of game or has there been an increase in rabies cases?
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Post by feralemma on Jan 17, 2021 16:27:28 GMT 10
As far as pork products go, if it's 60% or over Australian components the actual pork is Australian produced and if it has a bone in it is Auatralian produced pork.
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