[Lone_Hunter]

Here's something that should terrify folk: We're now down to a mere 25 day supply of Diesel in this country. Think about everything that runs on Diesel... semi trucks, trains, all industrial heavy equipment. This is really alarming. All it would take is one big earthquake or storm through the major refineries to really knock the economy off the rails (even more than it currently is).

The US now has just 25 days of diesel supply — the lowest since 2008. Here's why that's more alarming than a dwindling 'oil piggy bank'

www.msn.com

-DallanC

Yep, saw that the other day. I've heard this isn't the first time, but these days it's hard to take any bit of news without some grain of salt. Buuutttt, on top of less than 25 days left of diesel nationally, the 101st airborne has been deployed to Poland I think it was, near the Ukraine border, for exercises. By itself, whatever... our forces participate in exercises all over the world all the time. However, the last time the screaming eagles were deployed to Europe, was 40 some odd years ago.

That clock, keeps on tickin'....

 

[DallanC]

Curious timing.

-DallanC

 

[Lone_Hunter]

Curious timing.

-DallanC

Two things come to mind:

• How similar to the multiple food processing fires, crashes, and what not we've had in the states. List is pretty long.
• 7 meals from anarchy. How does that relate? Refinery = diesal = food delivery.

Granted these are in asia and have nothing to do with CONUS. But.. china .. or rather Xi did say something the other day about the status quo with Tawian being unacceptable. Conjecture is they might step up "reunification" to before the end of the year. The buzzwords are "Greyzone warfare". The analiyst types love this, but it's that threshold between peace, and active war. Not at peace, but not actively shooting either.

This is going to be an interesting decade.

 

[DallanC]

If you own a Diesel vehicle, you should fill it up asap, and as many spare fuel cans as you have. There is already a shortage on the east coast with fuel stations running out. Prices are up 20 cents in the past 5 days, its going to be ugly in a few weeks.

-DallanC

 

[Lone_Hunter]

Suddenly, that 8.1 gasser of mine doesn't seem so bad.

 

[DallanC]

Chickens... this is becoming a problem. And this is as of this morning... after we gave 50 eggs to the single mother a couple houses down last week, and my wife freeze drying another 500.

All of this from 11 hens (I really only wanted 10, got an extra chick in case we lost one along the way).

Freeze dried eggs, around 50 eggs per bottle. Supposed to last 25 years. We'll be transferring these to mylar bags with oxygen absorbers pretty soon.

-DallanC

 

[brisket]

Chickens... this is becoming a problem. And this is as of this morning... after we gave 50 eggs to the single mother a couple houses down last week, and my wife freeze drying another 500.

All of this from 11 hens (I really only wanted 10, got an extra chick in case we lost one along the way).

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Freeze dried eggs, around 50 eggs per bottle. Supposed to last 25 years. We'll be transferring these to mylar bags with oxygen absorbers pretty soon.

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-DallanC

That’s some serious egg production! Do you freeze dry them raw or cooked?

 

[DallanC]

Raw, just mix'em up really good and pour into the tray then freeze. Once frozen, that goes in the dryer until the moisture is gone. Then you just put the now dried eggs into a blender to mix it up into a powder, then that goes in the bottles which are vacuum sealed.

Here's a good video on it, with reconstituting and cooking them in the end. We've reconstituted and cooked up some and they were great.

-DallanC

 

[2full]

I would take/buy some if I was closer.
I miss having chickens. They are fun to watch and are great companions. I usually ran 4 hens. That gave enough for us, the kids, and still give some away to friends.
Grandkids always got a kick out of them.
They are much better than store bought.

 

[DallanC]

Told my wife about the egg picture I took... she said there are 4 more dozen in the fridge ...

And I just went out to gather todays, 10 more... it IS a problem.

-DallanC

 

[Critter]

Told my wife about the egg picture I took... she said there are 4 more dozen in the fridge ...

And I just went out to gather todays, 10 more... it IS a problem.

-DallanC

Thin the flock, chicken dinner on Sunday.

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[middlefork]

Maybe a food bank or church could use them/. Just a thought.

 

[DallanC]

Will trade eggs for primers!

-DallanC

 

[Critter]

Will trade eggs for primers!

-DallanC

One for one?

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[Lone_Hunter]

Raw, just mix'em up really good and pour into the tray then freeze. Once frozen, that goes in the dryer until the moisture is gone. Then you just put the now dried eggs into a blender to mix it up into a powder, then that goes in the bottles which are vacuum sealed.

Here's a good video on it, with reconstituting and cooking them in the end. We've reconstituted and cooked up some and they were great.

-DallanC

Thanks for passing that along. I'm going to go watch that with the wife later. We only have 5 chickens, and they've pretty much done laying for the year. Some have been molting like crazy, (they looked plucked, its a sad sight) others decided they're just isn't enough daylight anymore. We we're giving some of our spare eggs away to the neighbors a few times, at one point during the summer, i cooked up a HUGE batch of scrambled eggs and freeze dried the whole dang thing. I was under the impression you can't freeze dry raw food in general, which is why I did that. Yesterday, I bought eggs from the store for the first time in a year. I cried a little inside. I do have a lighting kit out in the shed, but I figure the girls deserve a rest for a few months.

 

[DallanC]

Put a light in the coop, on a timer to come on at like 2 or 3am ... you'll have eggs all winter.

-DallanC

 

[Lone_Hunter]

Put a light in the coop, on a timer to come on at like 2 or 3am ... you'll have eggs all winter.

-DallanC

Does letting the chickens rest for a few months make a difference in how long they are productive over their life spans? I like to think it does, but I really don't know.

 

[colorcountrygunner]

The world population surpassed 8 billion a few days ago. It has only been since October of 2011 that we hit the 7 billion mark. So basically all it takes is a decade and a year now to increase our burden on the planet by another billion people. In light of everything going on in the world today, what do you prepper types make of this?

 

[DallanC]

Hens are born with the ability to only make X number of eggs... period. You can get them over a shorter period, or over a normal lifetime... but it will be the same number of eggs (roughly). I get as many eggs as I can out of the bird and rotate them at 2.5 years for new ones. They are usually still laying good at 2.5 years so they are desirable, and it gives us time to prep the coop for the new pullets. We'll go a couple months without eggs during that time the old hens are gone and the new pullets start laying. Its ok, we get so dang many eggs its crazy.

Next flock I'm only having 6 hens max. Any more than that is just too many eggs for us.

-DallanC

 

[DallanC]

The world population surpassed 8 billion a few days ago. It has only been since October of 2011 that we hit the 7 billion mark. So basically all it takes is a decade and a year now to increase our burden on the planet by another billion people. In light of everything going on in the world today, what do you prepper types make of this?

Its going to be really really crowded in china, india etc etc. For the rest of the world, there's still alot of space out there.

But... the higher density of people, the greater chance for some form of pathogen to evolve and knock said population back down. Until the last 200 or so years, the max population of the earth hovered at 400 million. Any more than that disease would ravage the denser population and drop it back down. Modern medicine and better hygiene has really allowed human populations to explode, but we will reach a point even science cant stem off all the possible diseases that can evolve.

For us along the 'front... not much will change over what we are seeing now. More people, worse hunting tag odds, higher property prices, more crowded trails, fewer places to camp etc etc.

-DallanC