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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    True. Well, I am a Registered Nurse as well as other things. They kind of make you into a germaphobe on purpose. We are constantly washing our hands to rid ourselves of germs. But that was not common practice until the mid-1800's. People can spread a lot of germs to other people. I had to deal...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Simple Printer Maintenance - Fix Paper Uptake Problems I just finished printing out a lot of tax related documents and towards the end of the project, my printer started to fail to uptake the paper. Yes, my old Samsung ML-2510 laser printer is almost 20 years old, but it still prints great...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Well, our cooking class instructors said that if/when your crock pot(s) die, then upgrade to an Instant Pot because it can slow cook and so much more. Dear Wife is from the Philippines so one of the first cooking appliances we bought was a rice cooker. They are also good for steaming...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Thanks. I'll find out probably this weekend if Dear Wife can make something good to eat out of those old laying hens. I have my expectations set low, so as not to be too disappointed if the meat is as tough as I expect. :drool Many years ago, I started off with raising 50 meat chickens which we...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    I don't have an instant pot. I have some old timer crock pots and that unused pressure cooker in the closet. I know people who have those Instant Pots really like them. :idunno When I was attending the Senior Citizens Cooking Class, we had one demonstration of cooking with Instant Pots. Most of...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    I bought Dear Wife a really nice pressure cooker years ago, but she has never used it. It's just sitting in a closet up on a shelf. If the chicken soup does not work out for us, I'll mention the pressure cooker option. :lau BTW, I looked up that Yardbird Chicken Plucker on my laptop, and now...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    I have a folding table that I could have set up. But I did not want to have to clean it all up afterwards to get the chicken guts off. So, I just used that partial solid top pallet I picked up a few weeks ago. When I was done with it, I just hosed it down with the garden hose. I used a cutting...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    I don't have any kitty litter jugs, but I have a stack of free 5-gallon buckets from Harbor Freight. I found this YouTube video on how to make a nice killing cone from a bucket... Because you have to bend the plastic into shape, you need to use a newer bucket. Old buckets might be too hard...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :lau First thing that came to my mind as well. :idunno Yeah, I figured. I only butcher, or plan to butcher, maybe 4 chickens per year. I just can't see investing hundreds of dollars in a plucker for 4 birds per year. It sure would be nice, though. If I had meat chickens to process every year...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    :lau Well, I guess not. Hope my post might be useful to someone else. Recovering my OSB floor with pallet wood saved me a lot of money.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    :lau Thanks for the shout out. Well, I guess I fit the description that if I can solve a problem with free pallets, that is what I will try. This summer I had to replace some large sections of my coop floor. The OSB, under a linoleum sheet, had rotted out and actually broken through in a few...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Thanks. I'll mention that to Dear Wife. She does most of the cooking in our house. I know she has made chicken salad spread for sandwiches before which we really liked.
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :idunno Pallet Wood Chicken Butchering Table Was a Bust! A few days ago, I was all excited that I found a small 24X30 inch solid top pallet. I said I was going to make a nice chicken butchering stand using that partial pallet... I had all the 2X4's ready to build the frame, and another half...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :clap Perfect example of someone messing up on something simple and then a law has to be written to enforce what many of us would consider common sense. I have always made the first few passes around the edges of the property cutting the grass to the inside. Then after a few passes, reverse the...
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    Persistent bumblefoot

    Thinking about your last post, I have a few suggestions... I don't have a rat issue, but I do have a raised chicken coop. I think it helps to cut down on potential predators. Nothing wrong with a raised hutch. I advocate for using any free source of litter you can get. I have tried free wood...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :idunno Well, I posted that it's against the law here. So, I have never considered composting humanure. But I get so much chicken run compost, that I don't use it all. From a compost point of view, I have more than I need.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old The older I get, the more I have moved to Green ways of thinking. When I was younger, I never gave it much thought. Actually, I don't remember anybody in my younger days thinking about Green issues. But I have changed over the years. It's not a big deal, for the most part, because my Green...
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    Persistent bumblefoot

    :welcome Welcome to the BYC forums! I have never had quail, but I have been raising chickens on dry deep bedding in the coop for 5+ years and never had a problem with bumblefoot. I don't know where you live, but I live in northern Minnesota and have to consider our cold winters. Anyways, here...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    :idunno I picked and pulled most everything left in the garden yesterday. We got down to 28F last night, which pretty much means our growing season is over here in northern Minnesota. I got another handful of peppers by letting them sit out in the garden about 4 weeks past their prime. Took the...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :clap That's a great question. I spent years in Nursing school, and we studied such topics a lot. But since you asked, here is a nice summary I got online... ************************* Human pathogens pose a greater hazard than animal pathogens because they are already adapted to infect humans...
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