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 Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:55 am
Vanilla eXee Hoshioni i agree factory farms are bad. people treat going back to non centralised things as backwards. but its been 50 years, its not working.
Well those people are dumb. Sure, if we could do mass produced on a humane level, I'd be all for it. Until then, as self sufficient as possible is the way to go.i believe ranches was what was before the factory farm, 400 arces and stuff for the animals to roam and graze.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:07 am
DeeSpark Vanilla eXee DeeSpark Vanilla eXee DeeSpark Congrats! I'm vegetarian, and want to go vegan when I move out of home (At the moment my parents are happy eating mostly vegetarian meals, and sometimes vegan, but they prefer cheese). Though if I ever do eat meat again, I'll be going for cruelty free. Though I ate meat again for a week, and after being vegan I found meat very boring lol. Chickens are great. We get about 4 eggs per day, though sometimes not all the chickens lay. We always have enough, free range, cruelty free, organic eggs to make meals out of them, give the dogs one each, and share with our friends lol. Do you have room for a veggie patch, or even some herbs in some pots?
Aah, yeah, I would never go vegan, it goes against my beliefs, but to each his own. I would very much rather that my meat came from reputable sources (or myself) though. At the moment, I don't think we'll be getting enough eggs to completely not rely on stores or farmers, because we only have one (presumed) hen and she's a silkie, so they don't lay every day. But like I said, they're more for pets than they are anything else at this point.
I do have a vegetable patch, but due to the drought and my hose always mysteriously getting it's self hooked to the hot water heater (which I don't know how to unhook without shooting scalding water everywhere) I've been slacking on watering. My herbs are dead, most of my peppers and I've only got one good tomato plant still going. A bit difficult since all of the hose hook-ups are very far from my garden area (which has the best sun and nutrients, so can't move it), and our sinks/bath tub make it difficult to just fill my bucket and use that to water. We've been getting a lot more rain lately though, so hopefully that helps.Choosing meat more carefully is still great. I didn't know silkies didn't lay much... almost got two the other day, but we didn't know how they would go with out chickens. Hope the rain does help smile
I think the rain was too late for my tomatoes. Did a water change on my fish tank and brought the dirty tank water (Best fertilizer evar) to my garden plot, last tomato plant was all black and withery =(
Silkie hens are supposed to lay like 3 eggs a week or so, I'll give you an accurate count if Claudie ever starts laying, lol. Hmm so not to many eggs hey? I do want silkies, but I actually didn't want to many more eggs, since we're getting plenty as it is. More then plenty. Should probably wait until the current ones start slowing down their egg laying
From my research, they don't lay a lot, they go broody often, and they stop laying at all during the winter unless you give them additional light sources. They're also fluffy, soft and sweet. This morning I was sitting with them and feeding them bugs to keep my roo from waking up the whole neighborhood.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:35 pm
Congratulations! I'd like to advise, when you can, getting a deep freezer heart They're really awesome; you can store frozen things for much longer in them and have tons more room to freeze them. So, you can get local produce in bulk during growing season and freeze lots of it to have when it's out of season ^^ Also, I don't know about where you live, but in my old town in Texas the farms that sold beef/meat directly to the customers would offer a side of beef or a side of pork already cut-up and packaged for a huge discount than buying individual cuts of meat, and it's a great deal as long as you have somewhere to store it (deep freezer! wink ).
About half of our produce from the garden has gone in our freezer. If it keeps going this way, I'm not going to have to buy zucchini, squash, parsley, oregano, okra, or tomato sauce for the rest of the year xd
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:38 pm
Mystik Mama Congratulations! I'd like to advise, when you can, getting a deep freezer heart They're really awesome; you can store frozen things for much longer in them and have tons more room to freeze them. So, you can get local produce in bulk during growing season and freeze lots of it to have when it's out of season ^^ Also, I don't know about where you live, but in my old town in Texas the farms that sold beef/meat directly to the customers would offer a side of beef or a side of pork already cut-up and packaged for a huge discount than buying individual cuts of meat, and it's a great deal as long as you have somewhere to store it (deep freezer! wink ).
About half of our produce from the garden has gone in our freezer. If it keeps going this way, I'm not going to have to buy zucchini, squash, parsley, oregano, okra, or tomato sauce for the rest of the year xd
I def want a deep freezer someday, but we live in a studio right now. Although, if we owned this place then we could go halfs on one with his parents and keep it in the garage which both households have access too. That would be totally awesome.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:41 pm
Vanilla eXee Mystik Mama Congratulations! I'd like to advise, when you can, getting a deep freezer heart They're really awesome; you can store frozen things for much longer in them and have tons more room to freeze them. So, you can get local produce in bulk during growing season and freeze lots of it to have when it's out of season ^^ Also, I don't know about where you live, but in my old town in Texas the farms that sold beef/meat directly to the customers would offer a side of beef or a side of pork already cut-up and packaged for a huge discount than buying individual cuts of meat, and it's a great deal as long as you have somewhere to store it (deep freezer! wink ).
About half of our produce from the garden has gone in our freezer. If it keeps going this way, I'm not going to have to buy zucchini, squash, parsley, oregano, okra, or tomato sauce for the rest of the year xd
I def want a deep freezer someday, but we live in a studio right now. Although, if we owned this place then we could go halfs on one with his parents and keep it in the garage which both households have access too. That would be totally awesome.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:03 am
Good for you! biggrin
Alas, I can't do that yet.
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