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....... like you said your most expensive Item, was your insurance willing to pay or was there a stipulation
Ideas for bartering
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Cave? No thanks, I want a cozy hobbit hole like Bilbo.
In survival scenario, I think nothing holds as much value as food. I have decided to raise quails. It takes them roughly 6 weeks to start producing eggs from the day they hatch. Once they start laying, they'll keep on laying everyday for the rest of their five-year life span. It costs very little to maintain them, as oppose to chicken, which can take up to 6 months to start laying. They eat just about anything, including grass. Imagine what you could barter for with a basket of quail eggs. I started out by buying eggs from this fella on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-Jumbo-Co...824?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccfa60560 . Within 2 months, I had my own establishment of reliable food source.
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I always make sure I refill every prescription if I need or not every month. You would be surprised at how long it lasts.
I did not know that about quail. It seems it would take a lot of eggs to make an omelet. How long do they incubate for?
It takes about 2.5 weeks. Let me tell you--they'll grow exponentially. The guy that I bought it has this super jumbo breed and I bet he's making a fortune out of them. It takes me 3-4 eggs to make a decent size omelet. Let me tell you--they grow exponentially! I'm collecting about 90 eggs/day right now and it only costs me $1.50 to feed them as oppose to the $9/day I used to spend on my leghorn chickens.
How do the eggs taste?
wow, that's awesome. do they need to be caged? id assume so, not like pigeons that stick around?
Anyone know the shelf life if you pickled those eggs ?
Hmmmm.... may have to put an addition onto the coop and see about some quail. The woman that buys rabbits from us raises them and I can get them from her.
I would assume that they would be just as easy to clean as a chicken as well?
I would assume that they would be just as easy to clean as a chicken as well?
I have stock piled "bricks" of coffee...those 2# packages of freeze-dried coffee. There are lots of things we may have to do without when tshtf but for lots of folks, I'm thinkin coffee won't be one of them!! Freeze-dried coffee will keep forever and we are hoping to barter it for items we forgot to stock up on. Plus, my husband already plows several gardens for folks, with our horses, and should tshtf, there may be an even greater need for plowing services, plus he is a finish carpenter and can barter his fixer-man skills. I am a RN and hope to finish my Naturopath MD this year as well....so, maybe I will be able to trade medical services for items needed. When all else fails...I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and no-one can make white liquor like my gene pool!!
Shenandoah
Shenandoah
Lets be realistic. Insulin will not last long (short shelf life)and will only be a bartering material for a small scope of time. After that any diabetic is going to die so be prepared for that instead. In hard times the medically weak are gonna go fast. Salt YES! Black pepper corns YES!(black pepper once ground degrades in months, corns store indefinitely) Honey YES! Sugar YES! Anti biotics (vacuum seal this) YES! Learn to make vinegar YES! Learn to make alcohol YES! And skills skills skills!!!
