Big News
I mentioned yesterday some news, well here it is...
If It Hits The Fan has a new sponsor. Welcome aboard to Directive 21, the premier distributor of the Berkey water filter systems! Jeff Gleason, aka The Berkey Guy believes in If It Hits The Fan, and I believe in him and his products. In addition to an ad for Berkey, Jeff has an ad for the great line of freeze dried food that he carries, Wise Food Storage. In addition to Berkeys and Wise, Jeff also carries Aquatanks, an Emergency Seed Bank, Potassium Iodate, and several survival and self-reliance oriented books. Jeff even offers free shipping the lower 48!
Directive 21 is with us for six months. Please visit the site and support Directive 21 when you buy products he carries. And tell him you got to him through If It Hits The Fan.
Chicken Sittin'
My neighbors, one of only two houses we can see in the winter, and the only one we can see when the trees have all their leaves, have chickens. Right now, they only have 4, but have had about a dozen or so at times. They had to go out of town on a family emergency this weekend and asked us to chicken sit. During warmer times or when they are home all day, they let the chickens free range, but on a day like this (never got above freezing), they were inside their 20 x 20 chicken wire enclosure. I had to go down after dark and close up the coop. All four were sitting on their perches in the coop and clucked at me a little for disturbing them. They've got a heat lamp in there to take the edge off tonight.
I'll go down in the morning to let them out again and make sure they have fresh, unfrozen water for the day.
If you are looking into getting chickens or rabbits or other small livestock, keep in mind that you'll need a plan to take care of them when you are not at home for extended periods. They're fun to have around; the fresh eggs are so much better than the store bought ones; but they are work, and they depend on their owners to keep them healthy and safe. The neighbors have killed a couple skunks and raccoons over the past couple years that had killed chickens. You really have to figure out if the reward is worth the effort. For us, I'm really glad our neighbors think so, but it would not work here.
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