Tame duck has to be my favourite eating, but sandhill crane is amazingly good, never had a tough one, you would think they would be tough, being as lanky as they are. I am not so fond of the idea of hunting them, but my dad has had no such reservations.
I agree that Guinea pigs are sensible livestock. I have never had one yet. But all the people of south America can’t be wrong…
I will add alpacas and llamas as good small stock, I hear the meat is exceptional.
That I can’t help you with breeding ideas.
My best friend growing up was a Slovak fellow and his parents were from the old country and brought the habit of keeping pigeons.
This was not something we ate at my home, but a treat when I was at their home. ( roasted or in a stew with a wine sauce YUM )
His father I think raced pigeons too at one time.
There is a big difference between a wild Pigeon ( a dirty pest ) and a domestic one.
Eating kind ( and racing ) are a bigger bird and they need to be cared for.
They can not look after themselves in the wild ( and pretty stupid )
They also kept hares large french style ones.
I seem to have an allergy to them I can’t handle one to skin it or my hands swell up.
I learned this the hard way
All this was in a regular suburban home here.
Small animals that do not make noise do not bother people I guess.
So true friend.
I think we are limiting ourselves, missing out on the finer things in life.
Take the potato.
Up here I can buy two or three different kinds.
But if you grow them you can get better ones, some for mashing some for roasting, some firm ones for soup and stews some make a better salad.
But we get the shit potatoes in the stores not good for much unless you want to just mash them.
Tomato:
You need to find some nice Italian fellows who grow their own to find the tastiest varieties that grow in your area…
Grocery stores are sadly just full of the easiest to ship and fastest to grow food
Yup!
Sometimes you get what the hen is in the mood for.
Most Americans think that Potatoes come from Idaho our Ireland. Actually they come from Bolivia. There are 600 varieties of potatoes in the Andes. An endless variety of flavors and textures. Llama and alpaca is ok but gets tough when not aged well. But the flavor is amazing. I like it better than beef. And I don’t like much of anything better than beef.
There is also an animal wild there in the mountains that sort of looks like a cross between a rabbit and a Guineas pig. It is better than either one. I have forgotten the name of it. I only ever knew the quechua name, not the Spanish one.
Oh I forgot, when I was young in Florida, we used to eat blue heron s. They are amazing meat. Don’t do it now cause there aren’t enough of them any more. Need to let them recover . Much better than turkey.
Jakob posted about other projects we’ve been getting done. So I won’t repeat.
Here’s a nother load of wood today.
it produced almost 3 ibc tanks of chunks. 5 barrels of wood for char, and a1/2 dump load of firewood for my grandpa. we also built a pastor fence around 5 acres Thursday and half of Friday.That was a pasture fence. Not one for pastors.
we also had three of these roll around clothing racks. Turned this one into an oil drain pan. Intending to make another one for antifreeze.I think so, but as I recall it had a shorter tail.
Ha! Into WiFi range again. Hospital this time versus the local Urgency Clinic. Wife’s kidney stones have kicked back up. Stress. As I’d said we have a 2000-plus paper books home library. 400-plus DVD&VHS adult library. Added in anothet 100 in childerns vidoes plus all of thier books
So no needs for internet downstream infotainments
Got 800 of 1000 feet new fencing done. Got early Spring peas and spiniches mudded in. One quarter of the big garden hand spade turned over incorporating the chicken litter. The two little girls have the one acre fenced yard to rattle aroumd in. Life is good when you are truely Rural. S.U.
Hey Steve, if you’re going to work her like that, you have to give her more water, or she’ll get kidney stones.
Ha! Ha! It is me 67, the girl’s mother 39 doing the grunt sweating works. My wife the home health educator nurse ordered State shut down watching her owned CNA dream school go bankrupt. No face to face in home visits allowed to her now either. Wound care and catheters clients will infect and go setic. Sad. Sad. Local here the small business owners offing themselves exceeds the covid deaths so far. S.U.
Hey guys do not leave me hanging here as the DebbieDowner! Life is good in the here&now. Good not raining day predicted here soon. Then I can finish my last 200 feet of new perimeter fencing to keep in my rascal escapist dog out of trouble. And still got heating wood inthe shed. Meat and fruits in the freezers. Still got easy-use grid power and water. Still got books needing read. S.U
Lot’s of folks seem busy I guess Steve . I have been wondering where everyone is also.
Well, here the same. Stay home all together, cozy around the fire place.
In the morning start the gasifier boiler. Good exercise for a real gasifier. Infrastructure is almost ready, some heatexchanger has to be replaced by a threewayvalve to gain a few degrees and the buffer can be used to a lower degree.
Next step is to connect a small 1 hp generator/chp and try woodgas instead of diesel, next next step will be a 30 hp Lister. Finally after some five years or more.
So, I don’t complain either. No stress about school in the morning with the kids, all the family together all day, as long as we stay healthy very happy times.
Unfortunately the fireplace takes logs three feet 10 inch diam and the hotwater boiler is happiest with small pieces ,1 foot, from old pallets. It should be the other way around. We have a lot of wood lying on our small land piece, but hotwater gasifier doesn’t like it.
If Corona stays a little longer I will plant more willow and build a reback chunker like JO…
This is the small chp. A Kubota 3 hp diesel engine from an old milking machine. Electric motor that is run around 1600 rpm delivers the power to the grid. Small meter in front and some other experimental solutions to have a prove of concept. A project that is going on for maybe 10 years and now is the time to finish it.
Heat delivery is aprox 3 kW per hour and appears to small for the house so I bought an old Lister 30 hp diesel out of a boat.
Goal is to have it run on woodgas with diesel ignition, no spark conversion. There is 1000 gallons veggie oil, so we won’t be cold for another few years.
Joep, why is that?
A friend of mine has the Atmos boiler, only bigger. It’s very similar to my own locally made boiler and it likes any wood.
Well said Joep.
Me and my family are at home, we are healthy, unless my wife has had severe epilepsy for many years, the crown cannot compare to this … She works unlimited, I clear overgrown plots, farm work, machine work in the workshop …
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Diesel-restricted diesel engine and wood gas, this is also my best and most useful option
