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Post by spinifex on Mar 20, 2024 8:14:19 GMT 10
I always find it comical when "survival" includes a band-aid.
The rest is good though.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 20, 2024 7:51:59 GMT 10
This is why we are self-building a new home. Paying others to take this task on is now quite risky.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 18, 2024 16:24:33 GMT 10
I’m quite fond of my Marlin 30-30 lever gun. Every time I hold it I just want to yell ‘fill your hand, you son of a biatch’. I went with an 11 shot .44 marlin lever gun. A really nice close range tool. Can dispense 2600 grain of lead and copper PDQ. I think that is more weight of fire than a full 30 round mag from a 5.56. With better ability to smash through hard stuff to hit squishy stuff sheltering behind it.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 16, 2024 8:13:39 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Mar 16, 2024 7:55:16 GMT 10
So quick one for the ground of my coop. Because it'll be built on top of a current garden that will be cleared, what is the best to cover the ground with for the areas inside the coop when the chooks will be scratching around? Should I leave it as the garden soil or should I lay pea gravel or something on top? Yep. Leave as soil. They’ll fertilise it and work it over and after a year or two it’ll become excellent potting mix.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 16, 2024 7:53:13 GMT 10
So quick one for the ground of my coop. Because it'll be built on top of a current garden that will be cleared, what is the best to cover the ground with for the areas inside the coop when the chooks will be scratching around? Should I leave it as the garden soil or should I lay pea gravel or something on top? Yep. Leave as soil. They’ll fertilise it and work it over and after a year or two it’ll become excellent potting mix.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 12, 2024 17:31:59 GMT 10
Adult Diapers.... Um... Being an old guy, my doctor has me scheduled for a colonoscopy... So..... It has been 10 years ago now and as I remember the procedure and recovery were not an issue... But the prep for the procedure can be ....traumatic.... as I remembered it.. Well, sure enough this time the prep is ..NOT.. any easier.. So.. With this in mind some kind of incontinent products can be quite convenient for the kind of ..issues.. associated with the prep for this procedure.. Hopefully this is the last one I will need for the rest of my life.. Just a bit of advise that I hope is useful to someone for something to keep on hand.. Have a good day.. You know you can choose not to get this invasive procedure? Have you assessed what the risks and outcomes are in terms of level of false positive results and outcome of routine procedure versus waiting for symptoms at your age? I read a thorough researched journal article on the alleged benefits of routine mammogram in women and it clearly showed they cause more harm than good compared to competent self examination. The article went on to show many invasive procedures done for routine screening have no real benefit and cause significant angst and physical harm. The procedures are only worth having to confirm diagnosis based on other symptoms or direct genetic risk factors.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 12, 2024 17:21:47 GMT 10
Bit of a long vid, basically 300,000 Jews have applied for firearm licences since the war with Hamas, about 10,000 a day. Problem is they have to undergo range training. There ranges open from 6am to midnight getting people trained. Have posted on this before their gov have removed a lot of restrictions on type and amount of ammunition one can purchase. Yep. Once it becomes clear survival of the asset owning class is under real threat … snowflake woke politics give way to pragmatism. This is a schism that ALL western societies will be passing through soon enough. We have weakened our societies to disturbing low levels as circumstances have allowed it to safely happen. Then circumstances change and a weak population becomes very risky for those at the top. And so policy promotes self reliance and hardness.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 12, 2024 17:13:23 GMT 10
So … just business as usual for Haiti.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 10, 2024 11:43:25 GMT 10
I kinda doubt there will be civil war such as witnessed in places like Bosnia. Perhaps what is more likely is what happened in to the US during late 60's at the height of vietnam war and civil rights upheavals? Lots of riots, arson, looting and bashings, but with police and military keeping things suppressed enough to prevent full blown anarchy.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 10, 2024 11:33:37 GMT 10
My sister sent me photos of her coop today for ideas. Hers is a simple wood frame about the size of those typical garden tin sheds and covered on the walls/roof in poly roofing sheets. She has a few roost bras in it and 2 laying boxes screwed to the wall on the inside with a ramp to them. There is no front wall to the shed part and opens to a run area that is about the same size as the shed part. With an open front like this is that viable for regards to the weather? Sorry with the stupid questions but I've been doing a lot of research for this project lol With regards to treated wood for the build, everybody says to avoid using it for the chemical leeching etc, but what other options do we have for wood as pretty much all Bunnings sells is variations of treated wood. I was thinking of using the black form ply for the box parts as its got the smooth sealed coat to reduce the mites issue compared to using regular ply or slats. With regards to weather protecting the wood, so many people on youtube are painting their coops, would non-toxic paint be a viable option? just to cover the weatherproofing side of things for the outside of the coop. I looked at the option of building the frame structure with steel box to reduce the amount of wood/termite proofing but it quickly came up to 3 times the price compared to building out of wood I used the old green treated pine for all the posts in the fences and as the main uprights for the night house/laying shelter. 18 years ... never a problem. The birds don't touch it. The only time the green CCA becomes a problem is when it's reduced to ash. The ash is full of nasty forms of arsenic and chromium.
If heat is an issue where you are I'd think twice about using polycarb on the structure. It makes a great greenhouse for plants so it will possibly overheat your chooks. My chooks used to love getting in under shade trees during the summer and scratching around in damp earth.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 9, 2024 8:22:41 GMT 10
Id put insulation under the roof and shading over the top.
I've always gone with a porus floor to the night house for good ventilation and enable cleaning with a pressure hose. 30mm Weldmesh or timber slat. leave a 70mm gap in the floor along one wall so that big chuncks of shit can be blasted to it with water and then fall through onto the ground below. There may be some pictures in my gardening thread.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 8, 2024 17:21:12 GMT 10
Well ... I never got a response from contacting her personal email.
I note that she hasn't logged into this forum for about a year or her own. Which would indicate she withdrew from all online activity about the same time?
Which may indicate a serious health or finance problem has befallen her.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 7, 2024 9:25:20 GMT 10
Isa hens are very productive so good feed is very important. Poor feed will see them bleach and then lose feathers, shells will be fragile etc If buying feed go for a good quality layer pellet. If feeding grain then supplements such as kitchen scraps, weeds are a must.
Best source of calcium for them is to feed them their own finely crushed egg shells. Can also give she’ll grit or crushed cuttlebone if you live near a beach.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 7, 2024 9:17:18 GMT 10
There are no breeders around my area that I know of so I'll have to drive 200km to the big town to buy them probably. I'm thinking of getting younger hens so they grow up used to being around people from something I read. I don't plan on getting a rooster so will just stick to collecting eggs. You reckon the sawdust over straw? Shell flakes and stones to suppliment the feed? It’s harder to do good Sulfur treatment with straw so red mite will become a problem eventually. other options that I have used and work well are dry sand and wheat husk from the local silos. consider using metal to make the laying shed/night house. Timber with cracks is a great harbour for red mite. id recommend next time you pass through a town where commercial horticulture happens for vegetables or grapes that you drop into rural supplies and buy a big bag of wettable sulfur. You can apply this stuff in a spray pack onto all timber work and nesting boxes for mite control. It is non toxic to everything except mites and fungi like powdery mildew.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 20:08:50 GMT 10
Be careful letting them free-range. They will shred certain vegetables in minutes. They do like eating all the fresh weeds from your garden if you throw them in the pen. Kitchen scraps same.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 19:58:05 GMT 10
I’ve tried a few breeds. Be cautious about getting birds from show breeders as they look great but are unproductive. In SA we found it best to get isa browns from free range commercial farms. They are about 18 months old when the farms offload them, are friendly, hardy and stay productive for at least another 4 years. Also, unlike almost all other breeds they don’t go broody and off the lay.
I crossed them with a good Sussex rooster I got from a farm and got a couple of Pekin bantams to incubate their eggs and raise the chicks.
Fill nest boxes with sawdust and mix plenty of Sulfur into the top 2cm to keep the red mite under control.
Ive always been rural and never had issues with snakes. Crows won’t bother you if they can’t see the eggs from the entrance to the laying shelter. If they can just pop their head in the doorway and spot them … they will go inside and take them.
get a wormwood bush for them to peck at so they self medicate for worms.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 15:58:50 GMT 10
Mr. A. Hitler had a big-ass bunker. It didn't save him.
I sometimes wonder if high profile folks like Suck a berg offend Lil Kim or Winnie the Pooh enough ... they drop a bunker buster or two on his lovely fortress.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 14:17:54 GMT 10
If you kill 1 rabbit and can it for 12 months you still only have 1 rabbit. If you preserve 1 rabbit for the same 12 months by keeping it alive you will have 1425678 rabbits in 12 months. Canning rabbit is a very stupid idea. Well ... not so much if your 1 live rabbit is a buck ...
But ... yeah. Totally agree its very productive keeping them alive.
Me and my Dad raised meat rabbits for years when I was growing up. We bred and ate quite a few hundred.
And we never had trouble with Myxo getting into them. Maybe because nearest wild population was many miles away. And no one else in the district kept them as pets or food.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 7:49:27 GMT 10
Old Oxy set trolleys are where its at. Built for heavy weight carriage and off-road performance.
Here's one I prepared earlier ...
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