Phoenix Survival- Chickens, mold, and more

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[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's Saturday morning, August 24th.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It is oddly cool for an August period in the South.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Which kind of has me suspecting we are going to have a hell of a winter this year.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It was an odd summer to begin with.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You saw the title for those of you who are just popping in.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Chickens, mold, and more.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, it's exactly what it is.

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I have had an interesting run with my chickens.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And since that...oh, my little solar fan died.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I have or had a set of 11 chickens that were in the backyard.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: One died over the weekend while I went for a rephrase.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I came back after a long weekend.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Weekend before I had no voice.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, sometimes you just gotta step away from everything.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Step outside of where you're at and just re-reboot.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So I came back, counting my chickens like I do every time.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: One's missing.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, maybe they're just moving too much.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Sit there and realize I only have 10 chickens out of 11.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I see a couple stray feathers here and there.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing too concerning.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I look and I see a set of bright yellow chicken feet laying in the pen.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The upper torso, it's just the bottom, it's little butt.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And legs.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And everything else is gone.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Mind you, it's picked clean.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So I can't tell you whether...

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: We have an issue with cats in the neighborhood.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Occasionally we'll get raccoons, possums, a few fox will start coming out in the next few weeks from their den.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll start seeing them down in the neighborhoods because they typically eat our cats.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And mind you, chaotic day at work.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Literally just realizing, you know, Chris has been feeding them, watering them.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't notice he doesn't count the chickens.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Not a problem.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I just, I didn't have time to deal with it.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Chickens are known to eat, be, cum, cannibalistic.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty sure she was killed.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They ate her.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Which the chickens are overly fed if anything.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They are all very fat and robust chickens.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, okay, you know what?

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll pull the chicken legs out later.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Day goes by.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Forget that night.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, thank you Stampfield.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Have a great nap if you were nappin'.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So I end up going out yesterday and my neighbor stops me to let me know, hey, about 1.30 this morning I heard some heavy steps.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: She goes, I can't tell if it was a large animal, but I think it was a person.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, at this point, as she comes up when I'm realizing, I'm missing another chicken.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I only have nine.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's feathers everywhere.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's not a single piece of blood anywhere.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So whoever or whatever it was managed to knock, push away the pallet from the pen, managed to push the feed barrel away from the pen, which is at the door so you can try to get it open.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Knocked apart the water tank that we have created for the chickens.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And I find it looks like a wing laying on the ground, but it's not bloody.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like it was just straight off and there's feathers everywhere.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: We just can't figure it out for the life of us.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So we have installed a security camera that last night.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it went off 42 times because there is a branch that as soon as it moves, it triggers the camera.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So what does this mean for y'all?

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: What does this have to do with prepping?

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you have to protect the livestock that you have or your means for feeding your family.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Those chickens are not just me.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Those are eggs and a food source for my family.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I have my electric fence base.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I this means we have to really uptick how we're going about the chickens, which unfortunately they are outgrown the pen that I have them in, which means it's time to expand anyways.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But I have to make sure that anything I do, I can protect these birds.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They are dependent on me for food, for shelter, for water.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And in return, they feed my family, whether it be through eggs or eventually meat.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So nine little hens and whatever got it got one of my bigger hens, which she was from my first set of chicks that I'd got.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So she was going to be laying. They actually should start laying any day now.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So it has been interesting nonetheless to try to figure out, OK, we've got a security camera.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we have to slowly start acquiring the materials we need because materials cost money.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Money is a tight commodity right now, as we all know.

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Living's going up, food's going up, which after I get off here, I am going to go do a big grocery shop because we are completely out of protein in this house.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I usually go once a month and I would have gone last weekend, but sure.