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Raising, Butchering and Cooking Rabbits with Nick DePuy – Epi-3086

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Nick is a homesteader and soon-to-be retired Air Force E-6 that raises rabbits for food and showing. He got started about 10 years ago and has made tons of mistakes in housing, breeding and butchering and wants to share his experiences with us today. Resources for today’s show Follow Life With Jack on Instagram Join the Members Brigade Join Our Forum Walking To Freedom TspAz.com TSPC on Discord TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat) TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me) Jack on Flote Jack on MeWe Join Me on Odysee Buy Crypto Safe and Easy on CoinBase My Favorite … Continue reading →

Episode-2577- Nick Ferguson on Fodder Trees, Rare Plants, Permaculture and More

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I asked Nick Ferguson of Home Grown Liberty and Rare Plant Store to join me for a chat today for a few reasons.  First as announced on yesterday’s show his new business is offering four different amazing deals with some cool fruiting perennials and some awesome trees as well.  Many of the trees are not just awesome looking but great “fodder trees” as well.  Many are not familiar with the concept of fodder trees or tree hay as it has also been called but it is a great way to feed livestock. Additionally these are only his first offerings, so … Continue reading →

Episode-1977- Meat Rabbit Management with Tiffany VanderBie

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Tiffany is an owner/operator of VanderBie Farms with her husband Jesse. They have been raising meat rabbits (among goats, chickens, quail, and bees) on their farm for about 3 years now.  They take pride in their work and always strive to produce the best that they can. Today Tiffany joins us to discuss how they manage their rabbitry.  Why they got into rabbits in the fist place.  Selecting animal for breeding, processing meat animals and deciding when to cull or pass on breeders. We also discuss some awesome recipes for cooking rabbit meat.  We also talk about some new plans … Continue reading →

Episode-1286- Raising Rabbits with Rebecca Colvin

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Rebecca Colvin has been raising show rabbits for the past 17 years. During this time she has seen and done pretty much everything you can think of with regards to raising rabbits, breeding, showing, heat problems, ventilation, pests, diseases, and so on. Throughout the 17 years Rebecca has won at many shows and placed well at the national level. She raises Mini Rex for most of that time; they are a small cousin of the Rex rabbit, which is commonly used for fur and meat. The Mini Rex is more commonly used for the pet trade but they taste just … Continue reading →

Episode-875- Rick Worden of Rise and Shine Rabbitry

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Rick Worden has promoting rabbits for homestead use and personally raising rabbits for 30 + years and feels every homestead should be raising rabbits due to their tremendous impact toward greater self sufficiency.   Rick’s company is Rise and Shine Rabbitry a small rabbitry in Mechanic Falls, Maine. Their rabbits get premium care since they only raise a small number.  All rabbits are kept in individual raised cages inside a hoop-house, in the barn and some hutches outside. Rabbits are shaded through the summer heat with shade cloth and kept warm and dry all winter while enjoying the company of a … Continue reading →

Episode-765- Useful Small Animals for the Homestead

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Okay there is a lot of gloom and doom out there and to be honest some of the crap is really hitting the fan right now.  It will be necessary for me to delve into that world more and more in the coming months/years but I still want to keep some positive and fun stuff coming as well. Hence today we are going to focus on homesteading and animals that can feed us, protect our property or provide us with other benefits.  The list we will cover today includes some “traditional small livestock”, some wild game and some other stuff … Continue reading →

Episode-31- Small Livestock and Wild Protein Sources

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Today we discuss 3 different options for keeping small livestock and several different sources of wild game and fish. I also do a brief rant about the nonsense coming out of both campaigns in reference to “off shore drilling” just to keep things interesting. Tune in today to learn… About keeping chickens for meat or even just for eggs The importance of keeping your animals protected from predators A new idea for a portable chicken coop that works with raised bed gardening Thoughts about keeping rabbits A few ideas on small scale aquaculture Methods of fishing that are actually profitable … Continue reading →