what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

[Elsveta641]

In any kind of SHTF, you will need a whole lot more than 6 chickens. You will need a self sustaining flock of at least 50 and hope and pray that a predator or thieves doesn't take them all out, or even just your 6 or so roosters. A few years back I lost over 40 in 1 night, and every rooster. If you want to survive, or better yet, thrive in a shtf, you can't do it with a bunch of preps. You have to live it every day starting today. Keep a garden planted year round, food doesn't just magically appearin a garden, it takes work and knowledge. Start hunting now, even it you are killing anything. Learn where your prey lives, travels, eats, breeds. Learn and practice every single primitive skill that kept your forefathers alive, from all forms of food preservation, to medicine, foraging, soap making, metal working, mechanical repairs, wood working, self defence, trapping, everything! 90% of so-called "preppers" would be dead within 2 months of shtf. If you started now and learned all you could, practicing it everyday for 5 years what you had learned, you might survive and make it thru to Reconstruction .
Or maybe not.

Good points! When I SHTF, I mean serious "S" like needing to hunker down indoors because of nuclear fallout or zombies or whatever. I'd put those birds in my house. My husband grew up in Bosnia and knows a lot about surviving bad situations. He's a general contractor and can build anything. I know herbal medicine, several primitive soap making processes, food preservation by canning, salting and drying. My husband uses a method from his country where you can preserve entire slabs of venison, beef or heavily seasoned sausages that remain edible without refrigeration for around 6 months at low room temperatures. I have personally survived in the wild when I was 12 for 3 weeks and can trap small game with sticks and discarded cords or leashes etc. I have a basic knowledge of chemistry that would probably prove useful. We would live, but most of out animals likely would not lol
Edit: just remembered we also once built a functional kiln and a forge. We forged a sword from the leaf spring of a 1978 Ford, good times hehe

 

[EggWalrus]

Good points! When I SHTF, I mean serious "S" like needing to hunker down indoors because of nuclear fallout or zombies or whatever. I'd put those birds in my house. My husband grew up in Bosnia and knows a lot about surviving bad situations. He's a general contractor and can build anything. I know herbal medicine, several primitive soap making processes, food preservation by canning, salting and drying. My husband uses a method from his country where you can preserve entire slabs of venison, beef or heavily seasoned sausages that remain edible without refrigeration for around 6 months at low room temperatures. I have personally survived in the wild when I was 12 for 3 weeks and can trap small game with sticks and discarded cords or leashes etc. I have a basic knowledge of chemistry that would probably prove useful. We would live, but most of out animals likely would not lol

I remember my grandpa who lived thru both world wars and the Great Depression telling me there would come a day when nearly everyone would be glad to eat from a garbage can or even eat day old road kill if they lived long enough. Just about all generations have lived during one war or another. Depending on whether the war (or SHTF) is in your country or not, could be the difference between you eating roast and potatoes one night, or praying to find some old dead possum laying in the road to keep from starving.

 

[Angelfishie]

as that has been occurring, IMO and according to science and history, since the beginning of the earth, from the separation of Pangea to the beginning and maybe not complete ending of the Ice Age to known polar shifts.

THIS is the most overlooked piece of it all. Climate change is a constant. It’s been a thing forever. No need to panic...just deal with it for your short time on this earth.

 

[TinaMarieofFL]

to feed your feather crew? unless y'all have been on the moon lately{LOL). supposedly earth changes are here and getting worse everyday.
So much rain here in ky. and other breadbaskets areas. people having to sell off their herds last summer because of droughts. now flooding etc farmers fields flooded mud everywhere. other places droughts
Mainstream news is not stressing how bad our food supply is right now and coming. supposedly coming winter is to be worst on record
so what do y'all feel to save back for our feather friends. one chat room suggested grass seeds, wild seeds etc. even box elder. which I haven't looked up yet
the animals around here are acting strange
anyones thoughts?

Have stopped eating meat/animal products. If it comes down to it, I will release my chickens to fend for themselves. I will not eat them. Have been maintaining a garden and have several fruit trees going. Canning a lot of in season fruit and veggies. Animal agriculture is exacerbating climate change.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Have stopped eating meat/animal products. If it comes down to it, I will release my chickens to fend for themselves. I will not eat them. Have been maintaining a garden and have several fruit trees going. Canning a lot of in season fruit and veggies. Animal agriculture is exacerbating climate change.

Releasing your chickens to fend for themselves will make them food for local predators.

 

[TinaMarieofFL]

Releasing your chickens to fend for themselves will make them food for local predators.

I understand that. It is better to have them return to nature than allow them to starve and waste their lives.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Animal agriculture is exacerbating climate change.

"Witches" used to do that hundreds of years ago.

 

[TinaMarieofFL]

"Witches" used to do that hundreds of years ago.

Witches exacerbated climate change?

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Witches exacerbated climate change?

People used to think so and consequently hurt a lot of innocent people.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

If

I understand that. It is better to have them return to nature than allow them to starve and waste their lives.

If I believed that, I would humanely kill them first, then toss their lifeless bodies out to the scavengers rather than release them alive out to the not-so-tender mercies of the wild. But that's just me.