Rhode Island Red Week Three
...She’s feathering in and looking like . . . a chicken....
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Simple Tech
...ay by replacing our iPhones with a flock of chickens? Do you know how many chickens you can get for the price of an iPhone? Two hundred. Of course your deluxe $100 iPhone calling plan courtesy of AT&T will only pay for around 400 pounds of chicken feed a month, so the fiscally prudent will trim that flock down to around 65 chickens. Of course if you let that flock catch the spill-over from the draft horses that will replace your Chevy Yukon when t...
Plastic or Wood?
...y kill bacteria. Researchers inoculated plastic and wooden boards with raw chicken juice fortified with bacteria. Within three minutes 99 percent of the bacteria on the wooden boards had vanished, while the bacteria on the plastic boards remained healthy. Puzzled, the researchers left the boards to sit overnight. The next morning the plastic boards boasted a healthy and increased bacterial population, while the wooden boards tested bacteria free....
The Homegrown Revolution Chickens
...Some very difficult to photograph chicks have arrived at the Homegrown Revolution compound courtesy of East Valley Tack and Feed. We have just three to start with–an Araucana, a feisty Rhode Island Red, and a Barred Rock. We’ll describe the luxurious coop, dubbed “Chicken Guantanamo”, and our improvised brooder later . . ....
The 10 Day $25 Survival Pack
...long shelf life and ease of preparation make certain items, such as Knorr chicken and pasta dinner and Maruchan ramen noodle soup ideal foods for emergency kits. These convenience foods are also great for backpacking as they are much cheaper and often tastier than freeze dried camping foods. And Homegrown Revolution can’t resist the irony here, that if and when the “shit comes down” we’ll be using the very products that let to our own destruction...