Yes, freezers are very convenient. In the place where I live, the weather became unstable, and in the winter there were thaws (can be a plus temperature on celsius). Previously, when the winter was stable frosts, we used to store frozen products the old soviet steel safe deposit! Just put this "locker" on the porch near the house, and put in it chicken meat and another stuff.
And now because of the weather, I had to buy some small freezers (simple, household, not industrial). When some of them are empty - I turn them off so as not to waste electricity. This year I finally finished the back of the cocks the year before last. Once I missed the moment, my chickens were old and almost all of the eggs were hatched only by roosters. I left some of the cocks, and the rest I had to eat (why do I need so many cocks?). And we began to cook out extra cocks, maked chahohbili (any gruzinian food - chicken meat width tomato sauce and spices). But the back is not suitable for chahokhbili (it is bony, there is not enough meat) and I began to fold these backs on sachets and freeze. As a result, I got a whole freezer, crammed full of these cocks backs...
Then I began to cook soups - put one or two backrests in a pan, and add potatoes, rice, buckwheat, peas beans or something else. Strangely enough, but it turned out to be very good broth. And now, two years later, I finally finished the last chicken back.
Until then, I did not even cut any birds for meat, I decided that until we finish this chicken backs, I will not cut anyone. Geese during this time naturally bred and I now have many kilograms of gooses in the case of world hunger, some war with aliens or a zombie apocalypse
But I decided not to breed any more chickens. I keep them no more than 20-30 pieces. Just for these two years I ate so much chicken broth that it really bored me. Now I have chickens only to have eggs.
I do not know, this spring I hope to buy a pair of small piglets and grow them to slightly diversify my culinary life )))
The truth is very slow, I first build serious sheds, I store a lot of food, I make new beds for planting fodder plants (this is clearly not enough, but this allows a little saving money) and only after that I start new animals.
For three years I have been dreaming of buying goats, but I have not yet started. But the stock is a whole attic of dried birch branches, which in winter serve as goats feeding.
It will be necessary to order hay in another region (it's cheap there, it's very expensive in Moscow), the lorry will come, it will bring two tons, I will put it on the attic of the shed (there are a special room for that, and one another room for birch branches) and I will live peacefully, whether I have money or not - it will not matter, the food is here, the animals are , taxes paid to the state - and I do not need anything more )))
Some neighbors think that I am a farmer, but I explain to them that I am not a farmer, I will not sell anything to them, but I just live quietly and like to eat, sleep, sit at home, read books and do not go anywhere. And I do not want to get a job, I'm lazy.
and you've figured out a way to self support. Can't hate on that.
Quite frankly, half of the population lives in Russia - does not work anywhere, it sits in houses with chickens and goats. True, many people live very poorly, but there the main reason is that they drink too much alcohol. I think if I had also started drinking vodka instead of building and breeding geese, I would never have had a house with a pool, and I was in some terrible old hut, and would have a bunch of bank and other debts.Your last line of being lazy and not getting a job made me chuckle. Self awareness is good
Yes, freezers are very convenient. In the place where I live, the weather became unstable, and in the winter there were thaws (can be a plus temperature on celsius). Previously, when the winter was stable frosts, we used to store frozen products the old soviet steel safe deposit! Just put this "locker" on the porch near the house, and put in it chicken meat and another stuff.
And now because of the weather, I had to buy some small freezers (simple, household, not industrial). When some of them are empty - I turn them off so as not to waste electricity. This year I finally finished the back of the cocks the year before last. Once I missed the moment, my chickens were old and almost all of the eggs were hatched only by roosters. I left some of the cocks, and the rest I had to eat (why do I need so many cocks?). And we began to cook out extra cocks, maked chahohbili (any gruzinian food - chicken meat width tomato sauce and spices). But the back is not suitable for chahokhbili (it is bony, there is not enough meat) and I began to fold these backs on sachets and freeze. As a result, I got a whole freezer, crammed full of these cocks backs...
Then I began to cook soups - put one or two backrests in a pan, and add potatoes, rice, buckwheat, peas beans or something else. Strangely enough, but it turned out to be very good broth. And now, two years later, I finally finished the last chicken back.
Until then, I did not even cut any birds for meat, I decided that until we finish this chicken backs, I will not cut anyone. Geese during this time naturally bred and I now have many kilograms of gooses in the case of world hunger, some war with aliens or a zombie apocalypse
But I decided not to breed any more chickens. I keep them no more than 20-30 pieces. Just for these two years I ate so much chicken broth that it really bored me. Now I have chickens only to have eggs.
I do not know, this spring I hope to buy a pair of small piglets and grow them to slightly diversify my culinary life )))
The truth is very slow, I first build serious sheds, I store a lot of food, I make new beds for planting fodder plants (this is clearly not enough, but this allows a little saving money) and only after that I start new animals.
For three years I have been dreaming of buying goats, but I have not yet started. But the stock is a whole attic of dried birch branches, which in winter serve as goats feeding.
It will be necessary to order hay in another region (it's cheap there, it's very expensive in Moscow), the lorry will come, it will bring two tons, I will put it on the attic of the shed (there are a special room for that, and one another room for birch branches) and I will live peacefully, whether I have money or not - it will not matter, the food is here, the animals are , taxes paid to the state - and I do not need anything more )))
Some neighbors think that I am a farmer, but I explain to them that I am not a farmer, I will not sell anything to them, but I just live quietly and like to eat, sleep, sit at home, read books and do not go anywhere. And I do not want to get a job, I'm lazy.
Life goalsYour last line of being lazy and not getting a job made me chuckle. Self awareness is good
