How will you survive?

[silentC]

So now I have to become a chicken sexer? :eek:

I saw a fox the other day slinking through the vacant block next door. Reminds me I'd better let the bloke across the road know because it was coming from his direction and he has chooks.

[Wongo]

I drink Chinese tea everyday but I would like to try some worm tea. So what’s the go sir? Do I just add live worms to hot tea and where can I buy them?

[echnidna]

So now I have to become a chicken sexer? :eek:

I saw a fox the other day slinking through the vacant block next door. Reminds me I'd better let the bloke across the road know because it was coming from his direction and he has chooks.

You'll soon learn the difference between a rooster and a hen.
hint - roosters don't lay eggs

[Ashore]

My uncle had bees. What's the go with that?

Collect their waste BP has been fueling cars for years

[himzol]

Hmmm... I just realized I haven't seen the movie "Soylant (sp) Green" for a while.

[Cliff Rogers]

Seriously...
We used to bury our scraps, soil was good, lots of rich humus, graden worms etc, had a few problems with rodents if we didn't bury it deep enough.
Then we got a worm farm... ($36 for special worms, $98 for special house)
We feed it MOUNTAINS of scraps, shreaded paper, lawn clippings, water, lime, etc.
We get back a couple of buckets of brown water & all sorts of other wild life moves into the farm as well... insects, including bettles & cochroaches, geckos & green ants, trying to catch the insects... Rats moved into my shed next door to it, cats turned up for a bit of the action....:mad:
We now have a house in the hills with 9 bush turkeys roaming around.
We take scraps & chuck them in an old garden with all the garden clippings & the turkeys know that it is 'their' garden.
We don't even bother burying them 'cos they just dig them up about 3.52967 seconds after we leave.

If you don't have chooks, bury them in the garden (the scraps, not the chooks that you don't have).

Now, not seriously, I want to hear about the dyslectic dingo.

BTW, did you know that an anogram of 'a readers digest' is 'dead tigers @rse'?
Nope, well it is worth remembering I'm sure.

[Cliff Rogers]

'tis interesting to ponder the legacy of the past.
(Cross posted from another thread.)
I grew up in Central Western Queensland.
Cars & trucks only became available for general use by the 'bushies' during my Dad's youth & my Grandpas mid life. (About the age I am now.)
Before that, all travel/transport in that area was by horse or bullock wagon.
Some little remembered facts. (Like 'why bother?')
A horse with a load will average 14 miles a day. (About 22.5 kms)
A bullock with a load will average 10 miles a day (about 16 Kms) but will live 'on the road' IE: can stay alive eating the grass whereas the horse needs food supplements if it is to keep up the pace.
Great Grandpa Rogers bought a settler's block about 50 miles from Longreach (nearest town) back in 1888. (I think, it was 1880 something)
{bear with me, I will get to the point}
When he first settled there, he only had a horse so it was about a 3 & a half day ride to town & the horse was fairly buggered when he arrived.
That meant he either had to swap the horse for a fresh one or wait a while before he went home again.
Either way, he is still gone for more than a week.
{Getting closer to the point now}
They could carry some extra feed & put it in a nose bag but the need arose for ‘way stations’ or ‘stopover’ points for water, feed, maybe fresh horses, a bed & food for the traveler(s) too…
Remember the ‘stage’ coaches, Cobb & Co etc????
They would stop for a fresh team at regular intervals so they could travel further & faster ; this meant ‘towns’ grew around the ‘way stations’ or ‘stopover’ points.
Back in the late 1800’s in Aus, the ‘way stations’ or ‘stopover’ points were usually called Hotels.
{Still with me or have you gone to the pub?}
On the trip from my Great Grandpa Rogers’ place to Longreach there were at least 2 ‘hotels’ that I reckon I could take you to the general location of even though they were gone before I can ever remember.
I do remember where they are and their names but apart from a bit of broken glass on the ground, there is nothing left of those places… just word of mouth memories & I have never shown or told my kids & I moved away.
When I die, those word of mouth memories go too unless somebody else out there either puts up a sign or stays & has offspring who stay to pass on the memories.
A further 6 miles on from my Great Grandpa Rogers’ place, (6 miles being an average half day trip by horse or bullock) is a place that was an out station from my Great Grandpa Rogers’ place. If they were going to work in that part of the property, they would spend a day loading up, traveling there & unloading. They would then camp there until the work was done & then load up & go home again. It was near water, had a ‘night paddock’ with a trough for the horses & it had a rainwater tank for human drinking/cooking water.
I can take you there & show you the bore for the water, the old fence for the ‘night paddock’, but all else that is left is a concrete step & a bit of rusty iron & some broken glass. I even remember the name of the last bloke who lived at that outstation even though he was dead & gone before I was born but my kids don’t know.
My Dad now owns the part of the property around that outstation.
To get to town would have taken George about 4 days on a horse…
In the ‘60s we could do in about an hour & 5 mins in a 1962 falcon.
Just for the hell of it, I have done it in 45 minutes in a 1992 Commodore.
It takes about 20 minutes in a light aeroplane.

PS. I'm not an expert on horses & some people who do know more about them have issuses with the speeds quoted. The point I would make is that these are figures told to me from the days of old in the bush in arid climates & are not current for modern endurance rides.

[Doughboy]

Cliff I hate to tell you mate but horse can and do travel a lot farther and faster than what you have quoted.

I have a horse that can trot at an average speed of 27 km/h averaged over several days ride.

Pete

[Cliff Rogers]

Through arid country?

How many water & feed stops do you have along the way at what spacing?

What sort of load are you carrying?

[Doughboy]

Cliff I will admit feed is every night and water probably every 20 km's but the load is definitely the one factor that would slow you down. I have used a pack horse carrying 40 kg of fencing gear and I certainly was not slowed down by him.

But back in the day of your grandfather he probably did not have the same shoe technology, feed quality and absolute desire to push to the limits. I think I was born in the wrong age. My idea of a holiday is to head out into the bush with a packhorse and supplies for a month and not see a soul for the entire time.

Oh well life has to go on though..........

Pete

[Cliff Rogers]

The blokes using bullocks & horses used to hate the camels 'cos they would undercut them.
The could carry between 400 & 600 pounds & go about 130 miles (200Kms) in 8 days without water.
That is about 25Kms a day.
The Canning had water every 15 miles (24kms) & it wasn't used much 'cos the stock would loose condition on the way 'cos they couldn't eat & still move fast enough between water.