Homesteading seems like a good idea right about now

Looking at my peers struggle needlessly, drowning in debt and barely being able to afford their expenses has made the option to homestead seem like the best choice going forward. Watching everyone I know spend 2/3rds of their life either at work, traveling to work, or using what little time they have doing mundane chores instead of doing things they want seems absurd, especially when 80% of them are covered in debt from college, their vehicle and more than likely they won't be able to own a home, or any land.
I grew up farming and raising animals (goats, sheep, cows, chiggins) and farming anyway so it really seems to sidestep the whole rat race and debt slavery modernity has set up for everyone. I may not have luxuries or high quality amenities but I will have:
>Fresh food that isn't covered in herbicides/pesticides
>Plenty of fresh eggs, meat and dairy that hasn't been contaminated by god knows what or had all the nutrients sucked out to make it shelf stable
>The ability to meet my basic needs even in a massive SHTF scenario and less stress if the logistic network goes down
>Little or no overhead costs, or costs that can be offset by selling excess produce, textiles or finished products that I would make anyway.
I have no idea why more people don't attempt to do this shit, or network with friends to build a small commune. I get its uncomfortable and not as easy, but it is certainly less stressful, even if you forgo electricity.

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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not going to save you from the nuclear fallout

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      At least I will die living a full life instead of wage slaving for Moshe while Black folk and hispanics continuously make life more difficult.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can build a fallout shelter if you have your own land, but good luck living in the city when the bombs drop.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Build a fallout bunker.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You dig 30 feet in a large circle on your property with a backhoe, drop a shipping containter with air supply and escape hatch, add beds your done.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      actually having buttloads of food preserved, being able to sacrifice a season of crops to contamination, being able to stay indoors and not need to go out for a week or more, etc these are all things afforded by an OTG homestead lifestyle. comfy crackers and cheese and sausage by the fire while society dissolves

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fallout is only a thing with ground burst, most nukes would not be used in a ground burst because it causes less damage. Ground bursts would be used on hardened targets like military bases or the White house.
      Fallout has a fairly short period of dangerous radioactivity, really within 48 hours it’ll be reduced to 10% of its initial radioactivity, by the end of the first week it really won’t matter much as long as you aren’t rolling around in it making ash angels. Which is another point, how long will it take to disperse if you’re 100+miles away from a ground burst? You probably wouldn’t even need to shelter.
      1 foot of concrete or 3 feet earth would stop almost all the radiation from fallout, 3 feet of concrete and 9 feet of earth and nothing is getting through. Even with 1 foot of concrete ceiling in a basement it’s only like a 1% increase in cancer rates.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      nukes aren't even real

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    You'll be toiling all day chud

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not really. Farm work is fairly easy when you work with a small acreage and work for only feeding your family. You only "work" during sowing and harvest, the rest of the year is spent doing rather sporadic chores. Maybe 3 days worth of work a week if you meticulously clear your land constantly, pick weeds and obsess over your animals health?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        i have been homesteading since 2020 and was going to engage with this thread but upon reading this statement i can tell you dont have a grasp of what homesteading really is. winter is your only down time. please just stay in the city, we have enough citygay homesteaders out here already. thanks

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          glowie spotted

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah negative boss. The only actual "work" I did as a both kid and young adult was during sowing and harvest seasons. The rest was mostly mundane chores, even accounting for the caring and upkeep of livestock and managing fire wood for a wood stove. As long as you get a manageable amount of land for your family, and aren't a stupid cash crop homosexual chasing the dollar you really don't have very much work to do in comparison to the average wagie. Again, it mostly amounts to 2-3 days work a week all together even doing the most meticulous work and care taking.

          https://i.imgur.com/GTVUFuf.jpg

          >Why did everyone flee the family farm in the last century?
          I dunno, maybe because it's back-breaking hard work that makes you ugly, leathery, miserable, broken and old before your time and never, ever ever stops?
          t. homesteader since 1997

          Again, only if your family was chasing cash crops or had more land than they knew what to do with (see Boomers and their parents/grand parents). Managing 300 acres with 7 people is hell. Managing 6-10 acres with 4 or more is easy as shit.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            how do you get 6-10 acres with fresh water on level ground for less than 100k?

            i don't know anything, i'm sincerely asking

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              The best way to even get started is to join a social club of some sort, particularly with boomers. Hunting clubs are your go to, that or occasionally playing golf. Ask around and see if anyone is selling land, or just throw it up in the air that you really want to buy some land of your own. You are also able to look online or contact local agents to see if undeveloped land lots are available. You may have to settle with uneven land and level it yourself (at least enough for your house), OR you can look for farm land that has laid fallow for a good portion of time and see if it is being sold or who owns it. That would be a last resort for me though because 90% of the time that ground is laden with all sorts of chemicals, and is so nutrient deprived it may as well be beach sand.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >The best way to even get started is to join a social club of some sort,
                only if you want to be surrounded by delusional morons from plebbit r/homesteading who are in way over their head. i have dealt with multiple people who show up with the 5acre homestead layout pic that floats around these types of threads. the few real homesteaders i know are completely burned out heling these types.
                >gonna make a self sufficient homestead but have to ask my neighbors for everything. frick

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >how do you get 6-10 acres with fresh water on level ground for less than 100k?
              you dont, right know you can get wooded land on rolling hills in the ozarks for about $3k/acre, but its packed with rocks and clay but if you spent a couple months you can have an acre garden.
              >fresh water
              i had a well drilled for $9k in 2020 and due to steel, pvc, and copper price increases they now cost around $20k.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Mine was owner financed because land, 120k in 1997 (California prices so convert to your local circumstance).
              Nothing worth having comes cheap.
              Almost no level spots, tons of water.
              Crumbling cabin which is why no one else wanted it, thought they were paying extra for a tear-down. No, it's the land dummy.
              16K down literally on a credit card. FRICKING CREDIT CARD.
              It's possible anon. Think outside the box and be willing to compromise.
              Picrel is my kitchen 17 days ago.
              Godspeed.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >no level spots, crumbling cabin, financed with credit card
                haHA literally me
                I want to grade the land, but the problem is that I'm not sure how to pick my starting point. I need to move dirt around so that the high points are lower, and the low points are higher, but... relative to what? The house, I guess?? The road? If I don't go in with a plan then I'm apt to waste a hell of a lot of time and energy.

                for sure add nesting boxes, integrating new chickens or roosters is really hard and usually ends in a chicken war where some birds will be killed and i dont think that will help anyway. hens really slow down laying at 3yrs of age and need to be replaced.

                I have been extremely blessed so far in that all the various different generations of birds have integrated smoothly and there is nearly no fighting. Just the occasional ornery peck, and then attention switches to other matters.
                The ten young white guineas are a hugely pleasant surprise to see getting along with the adult French guineas. I had read online a person say their two flocks hated each other. Somehow, the French guineas have accepted these little white nuggets from day 1. Better than they accepted the batch of younger French guineas who look literally just like the adult flock, even. Thank you, God.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              and then you have to pay for permits and electricity and water installation, not to mention the housing. this isnt cheap at all...

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Yeah negative boss. The only actual "work" I did as a both kid and young adult was during sowing and harvest seasons.

            if you are going to grow enough food to survive the winter you need at minimum a 1 acre + garden. assuming you already have the land cleared, leveled, rocks removed and the soil admended you still will spend several hours a day watering and weeding. once july comes you have to start preserving peas and tomatoes. 7 quarts of tomatoes takes about 6 hrs to process from harvesting to completion of canning. i put away over 50 qrts this yr. oh and also green beans which take as long as tomatoes. i have been done with green beans for a month but am still doing tomatoes along with caring for my fall garden. dont worry once green beans are done you have cabbage and corn to deal with oh and peppers too, dont forget about beats and turnips you have to preserve and potatoes too. i august you pick wash and can carrots, once again only 5hrs to do 7 qrts.

            >The rest was mostly mundane chores, even accounting for the caring and upkeep of livestock and managing fire wood for a wood stove.
            i spent about 5 days handling firewood and its my sole form of heat. its actually what i did today since i finally got a break from shelling and canning black eyes peas.
            >as long as you get a manageable amount of land for your family, and aren't a stupid cash crop homosexual chasing the dollar you really don't have very much work to do in comparison to the average wagie.
            i work just as much if not more than a wagie its just for myself
            >Again, it mostly amounts to 2-3 days work a week all together even doing the most meticulous work and care taking
            again youre delusional

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >P-p-please stay in the city !!

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            bring tools and at least a $100k if you think you will actually make a functional homestead. also dont overwhelm your neighbors asking for everything under the sun, remember youre gonna make a 100% organic SELF SUFFICIENT permaculture homestead, self sufficient means do it yourself

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >neighbors
              ngmi

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes i have a few neighbors within five miles of me, half are citygay larpsteaders who wont hesitate to drive over and ask to borrow something.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >yes i have a few neighbors within five miles of me, half are citygay larpsteaders who wont hesitate to drive over and ask to borrow something.
                Holy shit, I completely get where you're coming from now. I'm assuming you live on the east coast?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                ozarks

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nice little spot huh, I can see how it can attract the citygays. Going over it in my head why would someone ever need tools living in a city? Must be a hard transition without having some kind of family involved.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah you should go work for mr shecklestien for 40 hours a week instead

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's actually pleasant to wake up and make a fire and chop wood, theres always things to do with your hands, you don't even need a computer.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I was always told that chopping firewood warms you three times
        >Once when you haul it
        >Once when you chop it
        >Once when you burn it
        It isn't particularly hard and you can space out the chopping weeks or months if you want. It is really good exercise though.

        I wish I could have my own homestead but I'm a NEET living with my parents in a urban area. I do have a pretty big garden though, and I freeze all the stuff I don't use right away. I'm saving up to get a rain catch and filtration system.

        Any self sufficiency is better than none anon. It also saves you on expenses. Make sure you keep all your green waste to make compost.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Make sure you keep all your green waste to make compost.
          Don't really have the room to make compost, don't want to attract flies near the house. I have thought about it though.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you are a coffee drinker, or your family is just use those and cover food scraps with old grounds. That way it doesn't attract flies or any pests.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              can you turn coffee grounds into compost or is it too acidic for the plants?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                You can use coffee grounds for compost provided you mix other things with it. Green scraps (leafy produce you don't eat, old veggies you didn't eat or save, eggshells) and coffee grounds make excellent compost. It also doesn't really stink.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                thanks anon I'll remember that. I drink a lot of coffee and I make it using an American-sized Bialetti moka pot (pic rel, apparently Italians hate it because it's too big lol) so I end up with a lot of grounds

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                coffee grounds are great for composting, they are full of nitrogen but yes they are acidic and so are oak leaves but i compost both. nature is so awesome that it provides something that has alot of phosphorus and potassium and has a ph of 9 to help make your compost of soil more neutral, it called woodash

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >woodash
                IIRC that's how people used to make soap, right? And soap is alkaline. And that's how the word "potassium" go its name (potash).

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >why is lead Pb on the periodic table

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                here we call it "plumb" which comes from Latin. Probably where the term "plumb bob" comes from too.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                The Romans used lead as solder in their plumbing.
                It's why the aristocracy got all gimpy and dim by 350 A.D.
                Lead ain't nothing compared to the things we're putting in the water and air and food supply right now.
                >if you only knew how bad things really are

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I actually got extremely fricking ill from eating normal foodstuffs you buy at the grocery store. Had the constant shits, inflammation, brainfog and constapation every so often. My family went back to growing our own food and baking our own bread from heirloom crops because we all got so fricking ill from whatever they are putting in the food.
                Now all of my friends/family are lactose intolerant/have IBS/gluten allergies or somesuch issue. Literally all of that shit stopped as soon as we started sharing some of our excess produce and preserves. Modern food is toxic as hell.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's interesting. I didn't make the connection between their lead pipes and the word "plumbing" in English.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        But I WANT a computer.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I can't wait to cut trees and raise chickens, fish, hunt and swim in the river.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >plant seeds once, wait for them to grow then pick them
      >feed animals daily

      Wow so hard.

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Better to become nomadic and warlike than sitting ducks for israelite parasites.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      /thread

      home is where your consciousness is. learn to adapt to anything. stoicism wins.

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do have sex out there? It’s not like you can meet some mountain woman wondering around like a mountain lion will roam around and find mountain lion pussy.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      this.
      if you're not going to raise a family, then what's the point. you're just living off the grid for what? to die alone and leave a big cache of supplies for some other people to find? seems like being cucked with extra steps.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can unironically have your pick of left leaning alt-chicks who are book nerds, as well as more right leaning "trad" women provided you still have hobbies and socialization outside of your homestead, which you more than likely will seeing as you have tons of time to dick around, more than any wagie. Shit, you could get them involved in the building process. I met my last girlfriend when I invited a group of friends to set up a few pump wells on my property and theirs.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Henry! My boy!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the israelite fears the free range mountain lion pussy
      Ngmi

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sex?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You become celibate or marry someone from the cities.

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's a nice house.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post non blurry version plz

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Delete the "m" at the end, mobileposter.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Refresh the page and before clicking anything else open the picture. It should be better resolution. Also stop phone posting.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        turn your phone to landscape and click the link for pic you moronic phone posting Black person.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >lawn mower
      Yeah but a lawn mower is ~$200 and having someone mow my yard is like $50 minimum, even at once a month the lawn mower is the cheaper option after 4 months...

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        A scythe is more appealing to me, especially after I used it to clear out lots of crab grass to make hay.
        >Doesn't make any noise
        >Easy to repair and maintain
        >Has zero upkeep costs
        >Significantly cheaper than any motorized alternative
        >Leaves the cuttings in a nice straight line which is easy to collect or spread out for fertilizing your lawn
        It isn't the best for mowing your urban lawn with, but it works wonders for farm work and rural areas where you get really weird types of tall grass all over the place. Its perfect for hay making and composting. I basically cleared up all the dead patches in my parents yard by scything down tall grasses in their backyard, letting it rot in the sun and then throwing it on the bald spots every few weeks. Instead of sandy, shitty soil they now have actual dirt.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is one of the most based things I’ve ever read and having grown up on a farm it is one hundred percent true. Everyone is too atomized and tries to do everything by themselves and thus no one can accumulate generational wealth and communities flounder after three generations.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Great read, I really fricking want to do this. My problem is finding or making the community. I don't know where I would meet people who would be willing to do this, since it takes serious commitment and I don't have a large group of friends to ask. Plus making sure they're all white or like-minded is difficult too.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmao, remind me of that South Park, "you mean like a town?"
      Oh you just havn't gone to college yet

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      For you.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      homesteading communities are usually leftist hippy types and you will be hard pressed to institute any of these ideas

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >homesteading communities are usually leftist hippy types and you will be hard pressed to institute any of these ideas
        this, i am surrounded by these types of morons, they are all the same. broke, no tools, no skills, lazy, entitled and there is literally nothing they won't ask for. one homosexuals wanted to be a homesteading team and offered to be the medicine shaman and i be the laborer. i have completely stopped helping all these homosexuals who are making totally equal self sufficient permaculture homestead.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based read. Homesteaders have a critical flaw in the lack of specialization, which never allow them to acumulate wealth and create communities.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      No thanks it will ultimately turn into a libcuck fest. Also forcing to deal with morons? You know you’ll have at least 1 annoying ass person. Sounds awful what fricking commie wrote this bullshit.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        im sure it came from /ctw/. i made it through 2 paragraphs before i discarded it as bullshit.

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Looking at my peers struggle needlessly, drowning in debt and barely being able to afford their expenses has made the option to homestead seem like the best choice going forward
    How the frick do you plan to buy a large chunk of land with a house on it without going into twice as much debt, and struggling even harder to pay your bills? Dont get me wrong, im all about homesteading, but im under no delusions that i can do it properly without getting rich first.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Land where I live is extremely cheap. I found a 6 acre parcel in an off beaten area with a stream nearby, with many other similar areas publicly available, while others you would need to contact a private owner to buy the land (which is also cheap).
      As for the structure itself a half timbered, wattle and daub cottage that is lime plastered would be ideal. The most expensive parts are of course the timber framing, the wood stove, the ceramic roofing tiles (if you don't wanna make shakes yourself) and the glass/sills. All together its around 60-70k depending on your square footage, windows and how many woodstoves you want. Significantly less costly than your average plywood box that burns at the slightest spark and easier to repair provided the frame isn't damaged.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'd like something like that, they don't make it easy to know what land you can or can't build on. I'll see land for sale and then its not zoned right and I'm not allowed to build. With satellite internet you would still be connected to everything electronically. Governments don't want people to do this unless they become revenue generating farmers.

        Agreed.
        People romanticize the farm life because they long for a simpler time I get that.
        It's just that no one seems to realize it's 80 hours a week, no vacations for the rest of your life and no fricking paycheck. At least in the hard currency sense.

        If you wanted to farm to sell food it would be. My plan is to just live off investments to pay me a small wage so I can just buy the food.

        chickens are the best animal for homesteading since they are simple and cheap to care for. during the spring, summer and fall my free range and i feed about 50lbs of food during these 3 seasons, during the winter i feed anout 50lbs every 6 weeks. second best homesteading animal is pigs, especially if you know how to artificially inseminate them to cut out the cost of a boar.

        The eggs I'm fine with but I don't I could do the killing considering its pretty cheap to just buy a cooked chicken cheap.

        bring tools and at least a $100k if you think you will actually make a functional homestead. also dont overwhelm your neighbors asking for everything under the sun, remember youre gonna make a 100% organic SELF SUFFICIENT permaculture homestead, self sufficient means do it yourself

        I've seen peoples gardens and I think its generally just cheaper to buy food then grow it for how much work they have to do.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >but I don't I could do the killing considering its pretty cheap to just buy a cooked chicken cheap.
          butchering chickens is extremely time consuming especially if you pluck them by hand, it takes like ten minutes per bird. and free range homegrown chickens usually have more stringy meat. all that said im gonna start doing it again because im seriously afraid of them putting the mrna gene therapy in the meat.
          >I've seen peoples gardens and I think its generally just cheaper to buy food then grow it for how much work they have to do.
          its alot of work at first especially, after 5 years of work it becomes easier because your soil is tip top. i only spend $50/month during summer on food and thats mostly meat and some sugar and oil and such

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wish I could have my own homestead but I'm a NEET living with my parents in a urban area. I do have a pretty big garden though, and I freeze all the stuff I don't use right away. I'm saving up to get a rain catch and filtration system.

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    You don't have to go all in on it at once. That's what I am doing. We have our property and I am building up the infrastructure slowly and steadily. I still have my full time job while I build up income from the property. I might never do it full time and earn a living but at least it is another income source.

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I grew up farming
    >Fresh food that isn't covered in herbicides/pesticides
    You did not grow up farming

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did though. Not everyone likes having the aftertaste of chemicals in their food or constantly having to use pesticides/herbicides.

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did everyone flee the family farm in the last century?
    I dunno, maybe because it's back-breaking hard work that makes you ugly, leathery, miserable, broken and old before your time and never, ever ever stops?
    t. homesteader since 1997

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      modern technology makes it a breeze these days

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you're talking about a half million dollar computer controlled air conditioned John Deere sure, but that ain't homesteading. That's agribusiness.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >modern technology makes it a breeze these days
        Don't derail this thread Anon!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      All of that is true but its honest work with your hands and keeps you fit. Sitting at a desk all day I cant do.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Agreed.
        People romanticize the farm life because they long for a simpler time I get that.
        It's just that no one seems to realize it's 80 hours a week, no vacations for the rest of your life and no fricking paycheck. At least in the hard currency sense.

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Palestine is not a thing and never has been

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      This thread has nothing to do with Palestine. Are you lost?

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    you need to have land for crops.
    otherwise your money is spent on feeding the animals.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      chickens are the best animal for homesteading since they are simple and cheap to care for. during the spring, summer and fall my free range and i feed about 50lbs of food during these 3 seasons, during the winter i feed anout 50lbs every 6 weeks. second best homesteading animal is pigs, especially if you know how to artificially inseminate them to cut out the cost of a boar.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        You forgot rabbits. Rabbits are the dark meat.
        The problem for most people is you have to kill these animals to eat them.
        Not just kill them but sleep with a guilt free conscious after.
        Not everyone can do that.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >rabbits
          im wanna get rabbits, as far as butchering them when i was five i used to watch my dad butcher my pet rabbits since they reproduce like rabbits and every six months i had like a hundred rabbits. he would grab them and smack them in the head with a steel pipe, it was quite traumatizing but i could do it, you just don't get attached to the offspring from birth

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        My chickens free range over my 5 acres every day, but out of the 10 of them I have only ever seen ONE egg, and my dog got to it before I could...
        You might try to tell me, "your hens are laying, but they lay in weird spots that you never find". HOWEVER, I cooped up one of them for a whole week in solitary and she did not produce any eggs at all.
        Should I give them more chicken feed? Are the poor things malnourished?? They seem really happy to me, and I've spotted them eating all sorts of things. And they go to bed at night with bulbous crops sticking out of their chest. But no eggs yet...

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          i leave my chickens cooped up until noon or later for two reasons. 1) if you let them out too early they will wonder way to far from the house and get picked off by predators 2) so they lay their eggs inside their laying boxes instead of some pile of leaves in the woods. do you have laying boxes for them? are you feeding them layer feed? what breed are they? i only use barred rocks because they are docile dual purpose chickens that both lay good and are big enough to butcher, if you get into exotic chickens they look neat but dont lay well, same with meat birds. right now chickens are molting and they stop laying and use all energy to make new feathers. i would coop them up for a week and see what happens. also over crowding and cold weather can cause them to stop laying. lastly i had a time when one of my hens was eating all the eggs, this is very hard to break and the simplest thing to do is get rid of her

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            They're definitely not eating the eggs, I think there'd be some evidence of that like shell fragments and goo. Maybe they're overcrowded, I dunno, it's ten birds in a mobile tractor that's roughly 3Wx6L feet, they sleep in it from 8pm til 9am or whenever I go out and open the door, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. I haven't heard any squawking or screaming that would suggest bullying. They hop on the perches and sleep, and when I open the door they funnel out for the day.
            Not sure of the breeds. There's 4 leghorns, that's for certain, and 1 that's either an ISA Brown or a Rhode Island Red. The other 5 are two different breeds, I'd have to look at my receipt to find out. But basically they're all cheap, unfancy layers. I feed them layer pellets or layer crumble, whichever I have on hand from the local feed store. Whenever I dig up grubs, I feed them to the chickens. They also steal food from my dogs, like cooked potatoes, beans, lentils, roasted chestnuts, sometimes pressure-cooked chicken bones... Wew.
            They used to share a coop with 20 guineas and the guineas definitely bullied the chickens, I'd hear a loud shriek every once in a while. Now that they live separate but equal, the chickens are visibly happier, it's palpable. They climb bushes and trees and eat the berries and bugs there, they follow me around and only struggle a little when picked up and cuddled.
            I know a nesting box is important; I scrounged up a milk crate to try and use for that. Will mount it and see if any magic happens.
            Would having a rooster around help at all to get their feminine juices flowing? Maybe they'd make more eggs if they saw a handsome lad around? I had one, a young leghorn, but his big mouth seemed to have gotten him eaten one day, by a predator of some kind.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              for sure add nesting boxes, integrating new chickens or roosters is really hard and usually ends in a chicken war where some birds will be killed and i dont think that will help anyway. hens really slow down laying at 3yrs of age and need to be replaced.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >They're definitely not eating the eggs
              That shit most definitely happens.
              I had this runtish bird once, whom the pecking order decided wasn't worthy of consuming the layer food.
              "Haha look at them chickens denying food to that fricking runt haha".
              Then the eggs in the lay boxes started getting mysteriously broken.
              One day I snuck out, opened the lay box door, that runt hen froze, yolk dripping down her beak, remnants of a still warm egg right in front of her, eyes blinking, and I swear I heard her say "Wut?" Filthy cannibal.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's a cool story but I think you didn't understand what I wrote.

  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Form a commune community.

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    They lay the chemtrails pretty thick in rural areas, though, to make/keep the people living there moronic. It's evil.

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    You’re getting drafted Zoomer too late

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    a house like that in a nice rural area with good land would cost millions

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    bump

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      OP you better save this gay whole food larp shit. it definitely will keep you fed through the winter

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pineapples are that insanely easy to regrow.

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    The wife and I are buying 160ish acres and starting a farm/eco tourism business in the NW US

    When I get things started I'll drop a /misc/ coupon. Rustic and authentic wilderness lodging for an affordable price.

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wonder why there are so many 'homesteaders' on Youtube? Growing vegetables in the garden doesn't pay your property taxes. Also even if you get a well drilled for running water, stuff like that is not free to maintain.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      property taxes are a mon issue in some states. picrel is mine for 6 acres. and the only upkeep for my well is $15 of electricity/month and a new pump every 20 yrs. youtube homesteaders only show you the fun and interesting parts, there is alot of hard work they dont bother filming. plus your average person isnt sponsored by kubota or stark bros to get a free tractor or orchard

  20. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Am I the only one who feels deep inner peace after seeing this pic? Like as architecture synchronized with the nature is just natural?
    The buildings here in Germany make me just depressive

  21. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    homesteading was a good idea about 10 years ago when every anon with a brain was talking about jumping ship a, going inna woods and already hinting at how compromised PrepHole is getting.

    now is the time to learn about emergency preparedness , coming together with you community to form crisis plans , milituas and set up infrastructure that helps with early detection like rf signal recievers to tell when someones piloting a drone over your house, and sensors that measure local air quality and radiation etc...
    you learn to homestead now , youre just another mark to peddle dry storage goods and useless camping tools on temu.
    you missed the boat on that one.
    now is thectime to strengthen communities and fortify them from malicious attacks from within and from the outside.

  22. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    It’s not what you think unless you plan on living in a trailer working some shit part time job out in the boonies. You’ll be broke af and the only way to actually make enough to afford supplies and equipment for you animals and plants is by working a job, you don’t make shit off produce anymore man.

    t. actually have a homestead

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      you are correct, i own everything i have but to make it I work about 15hrs a week for the neighbor down the road. i have a hundred dollar power bill, $50 phone bill, need some food, and chicken feed as well as stuff for the garden. be self sufficient is almost impossible and makes me really respect the pioneers back in the day. i dont live in a trailer though, i did build a nice modest house that's paid for at least

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was easier for them because they didn’t have a government looking for a reason to butt frick them financially. They actually had it good and you wouldn’t need to work if you didn’t have to pay taxes on your own land, didn’t have to work so they could focus entirely on maintaining the homestead. Look at Amish today, they’re basically pioneers but have the added step of having to work a job and make money.
        You’re also a disaster away from being wrecked, I assume you have a truck or car, what happens if that get fricked up?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >property taxes
          they are not that bad, picrel is mine for 6acres
          >car or truck
          no i got pulled over for expired tags and got a dui when the Black folk were burning shit down. they couldn't frick with the precious Black folk but fricked with me since i couldn't renew my tags since they were closed due to covid. at that point i said frick it, I'm done. i am eligible to get my license back but don't because i quit, i will never pay income tax again. i ride an electric bike to town 30 miles round trip. its a pain in the ass but i do it because im stubborn and frick them they can have my license. but as far as being one disaster away, you are correct. i worry about my house burning down or a tree falling on it

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            forgot pic

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Well good luck man, I’m going to bed.
            Hope everything works out for you.

  23. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Homesteading seems like a good idea

    why just a home, why not a kibbutz? :*~~))

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