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by Adjee
Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:17 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Replies: 81
Views: 2989

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

Slaughtered one of our goats and she is now hanging in the fridge in our cold cellar ready to be exchanged for two lambs tomorrow. These will be raised for the canning and freezing later in the year. Also purchased more winter bee food slabs which will be put in our hives tomorrow to hopefully see t...
by Adjee
Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 691
Views: 69660

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Car brought in, all weather tyres off and winter tyres on then battery removed. Temperatures are on the way down.
by Adjee
Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Rabbits anyone?
Replies: 0
Views: 131

Rabbits anyone?

Finally I have started to extend our rabbitry. Today we rearranged all the current occupants and pegged out the boundary for extending the concrete base (once the weather improves) and started working on some new cages the design we have copied after purchasing one from a contact out here. We curren...
by Adjee
Tue Dec 17, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 691
Views: 69660

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Not sure if this should be posted here or elsewhere I will leave up to the moderators to decide. Stocks of fuels for emergency use. I realize this may not apply to all members but here due to the extremes of weather and being snowed in is not an infrequent event we have to cater for this (along with...
by Adjee
Thu Dec 12, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: DIY and Handicrafts
Topic: Four candles (well 3) UCO candles to be precise
Replies: 25
Views: 1174

Re: Four candles (well 3) UCO candles to be precise

Good to see nothing is going to waste, we keep bees so once a year we make our candles out of the beeswax we recover.
by Adjee
Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: EDCs, BOBs, GHBs
Topic: Thoughts please
Replies: 8
Views: 372

Re: Thoughts please

Plus, you want to be able to discuss plans, and these could change rapidly if you hear people approaching. Separate tents are very disconnected. I suppose two bivis and tarps are less so, I've never tried it. Thanks for the tent links I will look through them. Regarding communicating we (and all of...
by Adjee
Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: EDCs, BOBs, GHBs
Topic: Thoughts please
Replies: 8
Views: 372

Re: Thoughts please

Thanks for your responses. I've a goretex hopped bivvy Similar to this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186785100039?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5ItOXjmIRji&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=M3kP4tWCTNC&var=694839810292&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Not the lightest bu...
by Adjee
Tue Dec 03, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: EDCs, BOBs, GHBs
Topic: Thoughts please
Replies: 8
Views: 372

Thoughts please

Not sure if this should be posted here or elsewhere so I will leave it up to the Moderators to relocate this post if required. I hope the following makes sense: I am looking at setting up our 2 x Emergency/Bug Out/Relocating Bags (1 for my partner and 1 for myself) from scratch. The equipment will a...
by Adjee
Tue Dec 03, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?
Replies: 72
Views: 3984

Re: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?

You can make a substance called "Bird Lime" from Mistletoe fruit or as they do here from Holly Bark. Put on a tree or twig the bird lands on it and cannot escape. Many wild birds can be used as a food source, I was introduced to crow meat here by our friends on a hunt who cooked it over an...
by Adjee
Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?
Replies: 72
Views: 3984

Re: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?

Not wanting to piss on anyone’s bonfire but this idea of going out hunting with a bow or whatever is close to being a prepper fantasy. Check out Gamekeeper John on YouTube (based in the UK) for hunting  with a slingshot. I brought home a pheasant today from my morning dog walk, 12mm BB to the head....