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To a post him a part of the right supplements of the stand down in the ninety to day its constitution. We are the proper book. We are the proper books in round. Hello everyone out there on the internet radio land. This is Dave Jones, NBC guy, coming to you on this beautiful Thursday. Man. Today's weather was just fantastic, fantastic cool, nice breeze, not too much humidity. I mean it was it was perfect. It couldn't have been better. So you know what we did today? We butchered some rabbits, seventeen to be exact, and it went pretty quick. Let's see, like three hours, yeah, a little over two and a half maybe. Anyway, Rabbits are easy, quail are easy to butcher. Gosh, where do I start. I recommend having a set of knives that your go to knives for butchering, keep them separate from your kitchen knives and all that kind of stuff, so that when it's time to do butchering, you just go grab the bin, sharpen them up, and go to work. We use it's a hunting knife by Cold Steel Pendleton. I did a daily audio cash or something on a while back. They are very good knives just the right length, stay sharp. You sharpen them, they stay sharp. Very good knives. Also an O T. You need to have this O it. You know what O stands for. Old Indian trick. Old Indian trick. Get you a pair of pruning scissors, pruning you know, cutters, and leave them for the butchering. It makes it so much easier. You clean those off. You can cut the necks, the backs, the arms, chip chop, chop chop, and then it's just so much easier. I have yet to find one in stainless steel. But I scrub them really good. I sanitize them and then I pour alcohol over at the end. You know, I scrub them like three times poor alcohol, and I only keep them for butchering. I will not cut a tree or a limb or anything like that. That's our butchering pruning scissors. What else can I tell you, Well, about a week or so ago when the wildfires were going on, we were raising some meat birds, meat chickens, and many they get fat quick, and I mean quick, six eight weeks. You got a butcher them. And if you don't butcher them, they will die of heart failure. It's just the way it is. They can't survive into adulthood. They've been bred. They're across between two other chickens, and it's a one way street for them. And it's probably the chicken that you eat most out there. So if you buy chicken, that's the chicken you're buying. So these things. Last week when the wildfires were going on, we were going to butcher them, and we postponed because of the wildfires. And I went up to feed them, and usually they'll be around the feeder like sharks in a frenzy, just eating. And I noticed some over in the corner and I went over and jiggled them to see if they'd move, and they were dead. Yes, So we got a half price attractor supply because they had been there for a while, but we didn't know. How old they were. And I go down to Marie and said, four of those chickens are dead. They're up in the coop. She said, we got a butcher. We got a butcherom right now. This is eight o'clock at night, so we are out there butchering in the dark with headlights on. Now, in the time it took me to set everything up, get the knives, get the tables get everything together. Another one had died, So it is crucial if you get meat birds, you have got to do the deed before they get so big that they just die on you. And we were doing some comparisons between rabbits and the chickens, the meat chickens, and. Even though rabbits are easy. And the chickens, the meat chickens pound for pound dollar for dollar, are a better deal than rabbits. Rabbits highest protein of any animal, but you have to keep them longer, feed them longer. Now, we did have them in a in a pen where they ate a lot of grass. I mean, these were free range rabbits. They were not cooped up at all. But boy, and they're they're not as much meat, not as much meat, but I guess the quality of meat is, you know, for protein is pretty big. But you're gonna have to one of those chickens would easily make a meal or two and we're probably gonna have to put two of those rabbits in a stew to make a meal. So that's that's the difference. And the Intrepid Commander talked about your own food preparation, Well, it can be done. It can be done. We're doing it here at the Jonstead. Thank you future Dan for Jones coming up with that phrase. Any given night when we sit down to supper, fifty to eighty percent of what is put on the plate we've actually grown right here. And the great thing is you know exactly what that animal ate. You know where it came from, the whole nine yards, from start to finish. That is wonderful. And not to mention the price of groceries. Have you noticed And now that. The war is going Oh, by the way, I mentioned this today on tradcat Eric he had me on today. Trump is moving medical personnel, medics, and medical supplies forward. And just like when Russia invaded Ukraine, you don't do that stuff unless you're ready for some kind of invasion. So in the near future, expect the Marines to take those islands and to secure the Straight of Hormuz. So, and I don't know what's gonna happen in the Red Sea, but there is another aircraft carrier. So there's gonna be three aircraft carrier strike groups. In the Middle East area. And apparently we can bomb Iran with impunity. So I think, well, Trump gave him the chance, gave him. You know, peace talk, ceasefire, everything, and apparently you can't deal with nuts with insane people that want to create a bomb and bomb Israel, create a nuclear bomb to bring out the twelfthy mom from the cave. Look it up, Google it. They want to bring about. The end of the world and they see that by being able to have a nuke and destroying Israel. So there you go. Until those people sit down and shut up, I don't think you're gonna deal with them anyway. Patrick Power, guys on tonight, I'm looking forward to a great show. Top off your gas tank. Gas is only gonna go up, at least for the near future. I'm glad I topped everything off last week and I used my gas points before things went crazy. So timings everything, and remember take your scrap metal to the scrapyard, get cash for it, and go buy silver. This is Jones Tips of the Day. There you go. We must have got one hundred tips in this episode. Anyway, I gotta go upstairs. I'm surprised the warden hasn't already tracked me down. Listen, I'm sixty nine years old. I'm closer to seventy than sixty nine. And I'm doing it. You can do it too, no excuses. The biggest limitation is what's between your brain or between your ears your brain. If you say you can't or you say you can, you're right on both accounts. This is you form your own. Reality, this from the other day. So just suck it up. Buttercup, do it, Just do it. Take care, prep on