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28 November 2009, 13:02
Bakes
Oh my bloody GOD.....
...I think Im becoming a hippy! dancing

Im getting excited about the new house and building an edible garden (lots of fruit trees and vege's) I also want to breed chickens for meat and eggs and sheep/goats/cattle for meat etc (some quail and guinea fowl may make an apperance as well)
The word "permaculture" has slip into everyday use here and Im deaming of worm farms and the like.

Anyone else here grow their own food? raise their own meat? If so what do you grow and how have you set up your place.

I know its not hunting but hey...Its been slow here for awhile. Wink


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28 November 2009, 13:11
muzza
carefull - you will turn into a sensitive new-age guy at this rate ....

You can keep ya bloody chickens or any other sort of poultry for that matter - the dirty bastards shit all round your doorways and dig all your vegetable plants out .

Growing beef is fine - until the kids give the critturs names then you arent allowed to kill the animal......and I dont think it would be wise for any aussie to own sheep..... rotflmo


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28 November 2009, 23:15
Barracuda
we started doing that with chicken but then the wife named them and now they are pet chickens ( 1 mean old rooster with one eye and some layers for eggs).

we only get eggs for a 1/3 of the year because we have such crappy weather here.


I love eating goats and lamb as does the wife but i have said NO as all that will happen will be the same bloody thing.
28 November 2009, 23:32
HendrikNZ
quote:
.and I dont think it would be wise for any aussie to own sheep.....

jumping
28 November 2009, 23:37
Weathered
Get some deer on your place then you can do this Big Grin

This is not very hippy


28 November 2009, 23:47
shankspony
For some reason, i get this picture of weatherd sitting on his front deck after a prolonged period of not going hunting, lining up deer with his rifle and making peow peow and rat-atat-tat noises.

Bakes, the hippy tendancy is only a worry if you take an interest in hydroponics.
29 November 2009, 02:58
Bakes
I did see a red deer hind in fawn for sale in saturdays paper. I thought about it but then I thought about the cost of fencing Eeker

Even if they do get names my little carnivores will have no problems in eating them. All chickens/roosters excess to demand will end up as olive python food anyway.

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Bakes, the hippy tendancy is only a worry if you take an interest in hydroponics.


Ahhh I have been looking into aquaponics once the house is set up sofa


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
29 November 2009, 03:35
TOP_PREDATOR
Bakes sounds like you are turning into a earth muffin shocker


"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill

29 November 2009, 12:41
Kamo Gari
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Originally posted by Bakes:
I did see a red deer hind in fawn for sale in saturdays paper. I thought about it but then I thought about the cost of fencing Eeker


Fencing? A hundred feet of stout chain and collar will suffice, and serve as evidence to all that your tie-dye garden freak stage is only temporary. hilbily


Cheers, and you're welcome.

KG


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29 November 2009, 22:58
gryphon1
Hoy Bakesy I have an "earth maiden" friend that has some Mung Bean seeds for you and a few copies of GRASS ROOTS Magazine to throw in also.



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01 December 2009, 01:19
Bakes
I've actually been reading earth garden gryph. Big Grin

Does anyone here/NZ (or in the the states for that matter) raise game birds?


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
01 December 2009, 03:32
cleaky
Shanks is raising 400 odd pheasants at the moment ...


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01 December 2009, 05:02
Fjold
We raise a lot of our own vegetables here in the backyard. More for just because it has better flavor than the production farm stuff, instead of trying to be self sufficient though.

Top-Predator -
That's in the new house, not the one you visited me at.


Cleaky -
Nice to see you on another board that I frequent.


Frank



"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

01 December 2009, 09:06
shankspony
Yep, as Cleaky said, I'm rearing 400 right now.
This is what 400 day olds look like.

TP has some good pics of a few I released last year.
01 December 2009, 09:18
gryphon1
you aint feedin` `em enuff if they look like that after 400 days cobber!

Bakesy take up organic home brewed beer mate,its a way better option and always a good excuse to get out to the shed "to check the brew"



Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
01 December 2009, 12:17
shankspony
Doh! No one said I had to feed em, I've just been sitting there clucking.
01 December 2009, 12:21
Bakes
Can't stand beer Gryph..... now home made bourbon is another matter.


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
01 December 2009, 13:59
wirehunt
Shanks is the second person I've heard of today rearing them easy targets.

It's not to hard to do the garden thingy Bakes, our chickens arrive on Sunday so I've been informed Big Grin Hell you've got the chippies there, may as well get the chook house done at the same time as the kennels Wink


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02 December 2009, 06:55
Bakes
Only chook house being build is the one I have to make. Youngest son will help out of course. Wink

Shanks, any special requirments for pheasant?
400 is a bit much but a couple would be ok. Something dofferent to add to the plate other than stock standard chicken.


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
02 December 2009, 07:09
shankspony
Not food or upkeep wise. Can't legally eat them from the pen around here as they belong too the crown, have to release them and shoot them flying in season.
02 December 2009, 15:44
Bakes
Really, what a stupid law. I thought we were over the whole "crown" bit these days. Roll Eyes


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
03 December 2009, 00:46
Idaho Sharpshooter
Bakes,

if you want to successfully breed chickens, get a couple roosters! Or a kiwi, I hear they'll do anything for a cold Fosters.

Rich
03 December 2009, 01:34
Bakes
Mate....no one drinks Fosters but you yanks Big Grin


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"
03 December 2009, 07:05
gbanger
Bakes, I know you are a dog lover. I must warn you that poultry of any kind attracts stay dogs for miles around. You will face the uncomfortable truth that you will have to do something about it or lose your birds.


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03 December 2009, 08:32
Bakes
Thats all in hand mate. The house paddock will be fenced very well and the chooks will be locked up during the day. Any strays will have to contend with my dogs then me Big Grin


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A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!"