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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

    ...consider our cold winters. Anyways, here is some information I looked up concerning wire cage bottoms versus the dry deep bedding system I use... ********************** Quail can be raised on either wire-bottom cages or deep bedding, but deep bedding is generally better for their health...
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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?

    ...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, often...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Human waste can be composted, for sure, but that compost is not safe to be used for anything around food gardens under normal composting processes we might use at home. Humanure composts has to be processed under strict conditions - more than it would be worth my time or effort. I have a...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ...septic system installed on our property, but it protects the lake. Anyway, here are some general regulations we have in my state on Minnesota... ************************ In Minnesota, composting human feces is subject to strict public health and environmental regulations. It is not broadly...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :confused: Considering it can take hundreds of years for disposable diapers to degrade in a landfill, you would think there would be more interest in keeping diapers out of the waste stream.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    We have a local church charity Thrift Shop that I frequent. I don't mind buying used stuff if I can use it. A big percentage of the Thrift Store profits go to local charities. Somethings I might buy an item that turns out does not work correctly but I'll just consider that a donation to our...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old I, and all my siblings, grew up with cloth diapers. When you visited another person's house, you could tell if they had babies as soon as you walked in. That's about all I remember. I did a few rotations in Maternity as a nursing student. We only used disposable diapers. I don't remember...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Our local recycle/transfer station has some of those separate bins. You can drop off batteries at one place, electronics at another, not sure about paints, mixed recyclables (paper, glass, metal, plastics) in a bin, but most other household items are either tossed in burnable or non-burnable...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    That is good news.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ At Home Sustainability Efforts I have made a conscious effort to see how much stuff I can reuse at home and reduce the amount of "garbage" we send to the landfill. It has taken us a number of years, but I am happy to say that I have not brought one garbage bag to the landfill in almost 3...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Looks like those battery packs are lasting much longer than anticipated. You have almost 100% range after 5 years, the Tesla owner I talked to had 85% battery health after 10 years - sounds like those batteries are holding up much better than expected which probably means that a used EV value...
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