Prepping and homesteading…Life is great today.
Some new additions to the homestead. Life as a prepper is not doom and gloom but fulfilling and real. Nothing fake here just living life as we where made to live. Our survival and ability to live and thrive by our labor and work of our hands. Life is good.
25 Responses to Prepping and homesteading…Life is great today.
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@southernprepper1 I guess the two dislikes must be from Foxes 😀
theduke502
March 10, 2012 at 4:26 am
@Jack70903 That’s awesome..
Jonnyballc
March 10, 2012 at 5:24 am
KFC on the hoof. I agree let the momma duck do the work. It’s her job. Besides she can do it better anyway. And if she gets into trouble you can always step in with a little extra food or protection for her and the little ones.
carr869
March 10, 2012 at 5:47 am
@swiftlydone My first yeast batch has done very well. It is finished proofing. It looks and smells so wonderful. I am so encouraged. I used about a half of a cup, or a little less, of dehydrated Maui pineapple I put up, pre-Fukashima of course. It was the front runner. I am waiting on Thrive freeze dried raspberries, pears, and blueberries. All but the blueberries look good, but the blueberries aren’t doing as well. So fun trying new things.
katiatomsk
March 10, 2012 at 5:51 am
No sir I am not bored! It’s great.
AmericanMade72
March 10, 2012 at 5:51 am
@katiatomsk thanks for sharing this is something i have questioned recently.
swiftlydone
March 10, 2012 at 6:24 am
@southernprepper1 i heard you can make your own feed from duckweed (has as much protien as soya) if you dry it out and add calcium supplement for there eggs just an idea for shtf and you cant buy food anymore
Jack70903
March 10, 2012 at 6:31 am
@Jack70903 I supplement there feed with the garden but the bulk of their food I buy from a local farm that makes chicken feed. He grows wheat, corn and other things and grinds it and mixes it up and sells it in a 50 lbs bag. Very good stuff
southernprepper1
March 10, 2012 at 7:15 am
nice nice, do you make your own chick n duck feed?
Jack70903
March 10, 2012 at 7:16 am
@brainnoise1 Thanks for the encouragement. I have decided to try my hand at growing my own yeast with freeze dried fruit. After all, we may have a problem getting yeast in the coming time. So, having dead yeast may have been a blessing because it is forcing me broaden the “what if” questions to include not having access to viable yeast.
katiatomsk
March 10, 2012 at 7:43 am
@katiatomsk just keep at it… we did that and have not returned to store bought since.. it has been over 5 months now
brainnoise1
March 10, 2012 at 8:22 am
It is great that you do not try to micro-manage all of that to much. It is always much easier to just work with nature rather then trying to control everything.
Jesses001
March 10, 2012 at 8:53 am
@Myrmecia We have a small pool for them.
southernprepper1
March 10, 2012 at 9:32 am
Do you have a pond or pool for the ducks to swim in?
Myrmecia
March 10, 2012 at 10:14 am
@southernprepper1 Awesome! Many thanks to you and your son for the idea! Looking at it I wonder why I didn’t come up with this long ago. Time to do some thinking outside the coop!
999manman
March 10, 2012 at 10:47 am
That was anything but boring, love to see that stuff!
ceadeses
March 10, 2012 at 10:51 am
My little dog loved this video he jumped up on my lap a sniffed the the screen on my lap top a just shook while wanting to eat your little chirping food sources . lol
jack447433
March 10, 2012 at 10:55 am
muscovy ducks are great mothers and easy to breed and are 98% fat free and the meat looks and tastes like beef my neighbor has 300-400 running around on her property i have a few i raise for meat and eggs
jdietz730
March 10, 2012 at 11:03 am
@katiatomsk good luck with the bread you should check out homesteadacres page they have a video on bread making
jodiwilliams70
March 10, 2012 at 11:42 am
Nature @ work.
God Bless,
Elba
elbacooks4u
March 10, 2012 at 12:18 pm
It is so touching to see the young chickens and ducks. Where I work the restraunt actually has a small squadron of ducks, one really, REALLY ugly bastard. And a few blacks.. well, ones Grey. The one black momma tho had a pair of chicks, one survived, but its so unique seeing the kids wandering around with momma.
DengarTime
March 10, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Hi Southernrepper1 I can never say enough about your videos they are terrific. I was talking with my cousins in England a couple weeks ago and they had been doing a tremendous amount of food storage. Redbirds1100
Redbirds1100
March 10, 2012 at 1:25 pm
@southernprepper1 DUCK BUTTER! man that stuff is awesome for boosting morale!
Demicron
March 10, 2012 at 2:00 pm
They do a great job eating bugs!
SCJMO
March 10, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Great vids no the ducks/chickens, makes me miss the farm. Nothing like having a self sustaining, replicating food source. Chickens / Duck are not expensive to raise if you have the room. Besides in a rural situ the ducks make less noise and draw less attention then chickens, And there eggs are just a tad richer to me
359badger
March 10, 2012 at 3:21 pm