Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[TexasLisa]

Bee, this is definitely a small world!! I just found some of your posts on 'Sufficient Self Forum' dated August 2009.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2905

Do you still have a scar on your thumb and do you recommend a little blood in your detergent?

I bought the ingredients to make my laundry soap. (I told you I would!) Anyway, I am still doing things one-handed. My hand has still not bounded back from the wrist replacement. Is there another way to get the Fels Naphta soap into small pieces besides grating it?

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, this is definitely a small world!! I just found some of your posts on 'Sufficient Self Forum' dated August 2009.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2905

Do you still have a scar on your thumb and do you recommend a little blood in your detergent?

I bought the ingredients to make my laundry soap. (I told you I would!) Anyway, I am still doing things one-handed. My hand has still not bounded back from the wrist replacement. Is there another way to get the Fels Naphta soap into small pieces besides grating it?

Lisa

Make your kids do it or put it in the food processor. I just made my kids do it.

Who wants to clean up that food processor?

I was about the 2nd or 3rd person to post on the SS and was more on there than on BYC for the longest time, but a bad faction moved in and all us OTs moved out and there's where it lies now. I have a huge journal over there of all kinds of info that those into SS might find useful. I'm not much into the SS lifestyle any longer, though my life continues to be very minimal and frugal by sheer nature and we still live where we are pretty low maintenance..but no more efforts to store a bunch of food, provide all our own foods, etc.

 

[RoseMarie1]

That's the way my last chicken coop was designed as well...and was built many long years ago by another old farmer. In the winter, the sunrise was right into the coop and he had placed huge windows that covered almost the entire wall of the coop. I opened up the other wall to a large window that caught the sunset too and the coops was nigh perfect.

some smart people n those days and some thinkers. Longwood in Natchez,Ms. has a thing in the center of the house that helps air circulate around. I thought he had such a good idea n those times since no AC.

 

[skitzkle]

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Bee, this is definitely a small world!!  I just found some of your posts on 'Sufficient Self Forum' dated August 2009.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2905

Do you still have a scar on your thumb and do you recommend a little blood in your detergent? 

I bought the ingredients to make my laundry soap.  (I told you I would!)  Anyway, I am still doing things one-handed.  My hand has still not bounded back from the wrist replacement.  Is there another way to get the Fels Naphta soap into small pieces besides grating it?

Lisa  

food processor!

 

[Triple Willow]

Bee, this is definitely a small world!!  I just found some of your posts on 'Sufficient Self Forum' dated August 2009.

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2905

Do you still have a scar on your thumb and do you recommend a little blood in your detergent? 

I bought the ingredients to make my laundry soap.  (I told you I would!)  Anyway, I am still doing things one-handed.  My hand has still not bounded back from the wrist replacement.  Is there another way to get the Fels Naphta soap into small pieces besides grating it?

Lisa  

Wrist replacement!?! Ouch girlfriend!!! I hope you are healing up good! Grinding that soap up is hard on good wrists, you be careful. Make the kids an offer they REALLY can't refuse. lol

 

[Triple Willow]

some smart people n those days and some thinkers. Longwood in Natchez,Ms. has a thing in the center of the house that helps air circulate around.  I thought he had such a good idea n those times since no AC. 

I was trying to write a message to you a few minutes ago and it disappeared...hmmm

What I was saying... I think that if you look back as little as 100 years ago or even 1000's of years you can see that even though we have got smarter in a lot of ways, in MANY ways we have become extremely dumb. If our modern conveniences were to suddenly stop being available such as gas/diesel for transportation, electricity, computers, calculators, etc etc - this country would CRUMBLE! We would be helpless! The majority of people think that it could NEVER HAPPEN. They are so wrong! Call me crazy but I think it will happen one day.

 

[Beekissed]

I was trying to write a message to you a few minutes ago and it disappeared...hmmm

What I was saying... I think that if you look back as little as 100 years ago or even 1000's of years you can see that even though we have got smarter in a lot of ways, in MANY ways we have become extremely dumb. If our modern conveniences were to suddenly stop being available such as gas/diesel for transportation, electricity, computers, calculators, etc etc - this country would CRUMBLE! We would be helpless! The majority of people think that it could NEVER HAPPEN. They are so wrong! Call me crazy but I think it will happen one day.

Amen to that...and soon. Real soon. Never have I seen a population less able to be self-sustaining and this lacking in enough imagination and gumption to make do when things get rough. Like big, lazy chicks waiting for someone to put the food in their mouths and entertain them.

 

[TexasLisa]

I could get my husband to do it.

Both of my kids have flown the nest. One is in Indiana and one is here in Houston, but I never see him. I will try the food processor. I did read you could put the soap in the microwave for about a minute and it will be easier to handle. Now if I just don't blow the microwave up......

Lisa

 

[Triple Willow]

Amen to that...and soon.  Real soon.  Never have I seen a population less able to be self-sustaining and this lacking in enough imagination and gumption to make do when things get rough.  Like big, lazy chicks waiting for someone to put the food in their mouths and entertain them. 

Oh yeah! And the people who don't have a clue how to survive or are to lazy to do what it takes will be stealing what other people have. I have seen that right here where I live. It use to be as safe as anywhere here. Now you best keep every door and window barred because some punk might be needing drug money. I can only imagine how it would be if they were to get hungry. Scary!

 

[Kassaundra]

Many folks do it...but I haven't figured out just why. They say they are supplementing proteins but not sure why they aren't just feeding a feed that provides optimal protein for the chicken's needs. It's sort of like giving oyster shells when already feeding a laying ration...just not necessary, though I have tried it a time or two in the past myself. I saw no appreciable differences when I fed OS or when I didn't feed it, so I dispensed with offering it. There are times when shells will be thin during the year and no amount of supplementing protein or calcium will stop that process, I have found. So...I no longer try to stop it. Time takes care of it.

Not everyone has access to chicken food w/ animal protein, I am guessing that is why they are doing it.