There are all kinds of articles out there talking about meat after SHTF.  You want to know what is missing in a lot of those articles?  Exact details.

Awhile back we talked about how many chickens would be needed for SHTF.  I would like to do this article in the same manner as the chicken article.

Lets start with one very important question, and that is how much meat does the average person eat?  To find the answer lets turn to the US census.

Per Capita Consumption of Major Food Commodities

Average US meat consumption in 2009:

For right now lets exclude eggs and focus on red meat and poultry.  We will talk about eggs later.

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The story behind this video as I understand it, the wife gets drunk and tells a joke. The husband records the joke, animates it, and makes a video out of it.

Charles Ramsey could have just walked away. Instead, he kicked the door in and became a hero.

Every evening I let my chickens out of their run for about an hour so they can browse around the yard.

During that hour I keep an eye on them to make sure they do not go too far. If they start getting towards the street I get them back to the yard.

I forgot to close to gate to the run last night.

This morning around 6 or 7 chickens got out of the run before I realized what happened and got the gate closed.

Well crap, now the chickens will be roaming wherever they want until this evening. If they get in the street I figure the neighbors will be like “keep your chickens out of the road.”

I will be glad when my wife and I get moved so I do not have to worry about this crap anymore.

Over the past few days I have been thinking about a lot of stuff. A lot of small stuff, to small to make their own post about. So I thought I would combine a lot of small topics into a random thoughts post.

I promised a buddy of mine that I would tone the political stuff down. Rather than posting political topics here, I will keep them on PBJ News.  So here goes.

Video Gaming -I guess it is a matter of me getting older, but fewer and fewer games have that “wow” factor.  Back in the 1980s and 1990s some of my buddies and I could play Atari and Super Nintendo for hours at a time.

Now, its takes a lot of keep me interested in a game.  Borderlands 2 got boring within 2 hours and Skyrim lost it after maybe 2 – 3 hours.  The only game that has been able to keep my interest over the past 3 years had been Left 4 Dead 1 & 2.  Since Diablo III has the always on internet requirement I did not even bother buying it.

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An update to how the rabbit hutch and hideaway boxes are working out. The hideaway box is working well, but they are moving their food bowls around and spilling their food.

To fix the food bowl problem I ran a screw through the bowl and into the 2×4 under the bowl.

I used a 10 penny nail and hammer to poke a hole in the bottom of the food boil, then secured the bowl with a 2 inch outdoor wood screw.

The doe seems to spend an equal amount of time inside and outside the box, while the buck spends most of his time on top of the box.

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I would like to ask the readers of this blog a question, do you feel the United States is headed towards an armed rebellion?

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I often wonder how much more the middle class can take before something breaks?

How many jobs have to go to China?

How many taxes can the government levy?

How many people have to go on welfare?

How many illegal immigrants have to be allowed in the nation?

How many people have to die in this so called “war on terror?”

What has to happen before the people say enough is enough?

If the people are not even willing to vote the two major parties out of office, what makes us think there will be an armed rebellion?

Post your comments below.

After receiving some complaints about the amount of political commentary on this site, I have decided to do two things:

1 – Reduce the amount of political commentary posted here.

2 – Open a new website where I can rant all I want about political stuff.

The new site is called PBJ News, as in Peanut Butter and Jelly news. Why PB&J? Because it is quick, simple, and something that fills the soul. It is a name just about everyone can relate to and it is easy to remember.

With all of the gun hating, conservative hating, family values hating sites on the net, I figured we needed a site that pushed conservative values.  I have this vision of PBJ news being not only a conservative news site, but also a conservative opinion site.

I am so tired of gun hating liberal sites spewing their hatred, I figured it was time to open my own site to spread core conservative values.

This is just my personal opinion on things, I think the United States is going to hell in a handbag.  The government has turned against the common working people, while liberals push for social equality for those who do not deserve quality, meaning illegal immigrants.

While companies like apple turn record profits, a record number of people are on welfare.  The major news would rather report on celebrities, rather report on the pressing issues.

We need sites that push for holding people responsible for their crimes, rather than liberal sites who would rather blame society.

Join me in my new endeavor, head on over to PBJ News and add the site to your bookmarks.

A rabbit hideaway box serves several purposes – it provides a place for the rabbit to hide, provides the doe with a birthing box for her litter, and provides a high place for a lookout point. Rabbits are prey animals, and as such will want to hide when they are scared.

The rabbit hutch was built a couple of weeks ago, so now it is time to build the hideaway boxes.  One box will be built for the doe and one box will be built for the buck.

The first hide box was built 20 inches X 24 inches.  After the box was placed in the hutch it seemed a little large.

The second box was built 16 inches X 20 inches.  Even at 16X20 the box seems a little big.

I may cut that down to 12 X 20, but it will be after the rabbits are grown.  Right now the boxes seem a little large, but the rabbits still have a lot of growing to do.

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Ever since the Sandy Hook shooting gun owners have been having to justify their reasons for owning an AR-15.  Personally, I think the only reason that needs to be given is “because I want one.”  I feel I should not have to “justify” my choices in which firearms I wish to own.  As a law abiding citizen there is no chance my AR is going to be used in a crime.  And as a law abiding citizen   I seen no reason to explain myself to anyone.

Free men do not explain themselves, we do as we wish when we wish.

Servants, slaves and criminals explain themselves.

With that being said, I would like to provide my opinion as to why people own an AR-15.  I am in no way justifying my ownership of an AR-15, simply because rights do not have to be justified.  I am giving reasons why I choose to own an AR-15.

The AR-15 is cool – It is awesome looking, it feels good in my hand.  Handling an AR is like patting my wife on her butt, it provides me with a sense of manly satisfaction.

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My wife and I started the rabbit hutch last weekend. And as things happen in life we ran out of time and were unable to finish the hutch. This weekend we were going to be a little pressed for time, but I was hoping to get it finished. Besides the hutch my wife and I had a pageant for my daughter in Newton Texas on Saturday, then a birthday party for two of the grandkids on Sunday. Saturday was a no-go, so we only had Sunday to work on the hutch.

Sunday morning my wife and I moved the rabbit hutch from in front of the wood shed to under a large oak tree in the back yard. When my wife asked why we were moving the hutch to work on it, I asked her if she wanted to work in the sun.

The drops from the legs are long enough to make cross members for the floor. When the floor was being built a cross member was placed every 2 feet. This left a space of 2×3 feet that was not supported. As a result there was a lot of slack in the floor. After the extra cross members were installed the floor was reenforced and the extra slack was removed.

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Now that the last bomber has been caught alive, now what?

Since the bombers are mulsim, will there be a backlash against people from the middle east?

Will the public demand aid to the middle east stop?

Since one of the victims was chinese, how will this affect china-USA relations?

Can we expect to see more vigilante attacks on people from the middle east? Unlike nations in the middle east, here in the USA Islam is a minority. Instead of Muslims beating Christians up, Muslims will be the victims of vigilante attacks

In the middle east it seems muslims can inflict violence on all over religions with no fear of retaliation. But here in the USA things are opposite in middle east. If a muslim does some kind of attack, non-muslims take revenge on other muslims, and even people that are mistaken for muslims.

Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhist,,, anyone that looks like they are from the middle east are already targeted by vigilantes. Sikhs already get abused because people confuse their turban with those worn by muslims.

Maybe white-supremacist groups attacking people from the middle east?

Will we see the formation of anti-Muslim hate groups?

What do radical muslims think is going to happen after commit these acts of terrorism? Do they expect everyone to look the other way?

How is this bombing going to affect the liberal agenda of equal rights for those who do not wish to integrate?

Lets not group all Muslims together. I would like to think 99.99% of Muslims follow our laws. So lets not blame the majority for the acts of the minority.

Simple question, did you support the expanded background check?

People claim close to 80% of the general population supported the bill. So I would like to know what this community thought about it.

If you wish to discuss the expanded background check, post your comments in this forum thread.  Or, post your comments in the comment section of this post.

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Someone on facebook sent me a message and asked what I thought about the Boston bombing.  I have a lot of mixed emotions about the situation.  Over the course of this article I will try to explain how I feel.

Short answer – what happened was terrible and I hope the SOB that did this is brought to justice.

Medium answer – How do we find justice for killing and maiming others?

Is putting someone in prison justice?

Is putting someone to death for killing others justice?

Lets take Timothy McVeigh for an example.  Did putting him to death bring justice to those he killed and/or injured?  At the time putting Timothy McVeigh to death may have sounded like a good idea.  But in the long run I think he got off light.  Timothy McVeigh is dead, and we still have to live with the memory of what he did.

How do we find justice for people who had their legs blown off, or had a son killed, or had a daughter killed?

Putting someone in prison is not justice, that is punishment.

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Have you considered raising rabbits as part of your long term SHTF survival plans?  Rabbits are easy to raise, do not take a lot of room, do not make a lot of noise,, what is there not to like about rabbits?

A couple of weeks ago my wife and daughter got a two Californian white rabbits.  The rabbits can not stay in their cage in the kitchen forever; the time has come to build a hutch and move them outside.

Instead of building or buying some simple wire cages, my wife and I decided to build a solid rabbit hutch.  This is something that will fit into my chicken coop plans with no change of design or other major alteration.  The rabbit hutch my wife and I built this weekend is a total of 8 feet long, divided in half gives each rabbit a space of 3 feet by 4 feet, for a total of 12 square feet.

If I am going to keep rabbits and chickens, I want to make sure they are treated humanly, protected from the elements, and have plenty of room.

Bill of material

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