Guest Post: Four from RidgeRunner of Green Earth Survival School

Today’s article was brought to you by the fine folks over at Reef-Hunter.com. Go check out their great line of custom apparel, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! (click to open a new page) Today, I have four selections from RidgeRunner’s Green Earth Survival School Facebook page today. RR puts out some of my favorite […]

Muscovey Ducks – My Final Verdict

Today’s article was brought to you by the generous folks over at Hides.com. Go check out their great line of “Multifunction Eyewear Necessities”, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! I’ve done my share of learning about Muscovy ducks over the past two years, and have finally come to a point where I’m ready to make […]

Guest Post: Spicy Thai Jerky

Today’s article was brought to you by the fine folks over at Reef-Hunter.com. Go check out their great line of custom apparel, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! (click to open a new page) I received an email from a regular that I’ve gone over with a fine toothed comb, and while I’ve not tried […]

Grinding your own burger

Grind Your Own Burger

Today’s article was brought to you by the generous folks over at Hides.com. Go check out their great line of custom apparel, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! From an article I read recently: “Though it initially made “absolute assurances” that all of its burgers were 100% beef, Burger King has been forced to admit […]

Home Canning – Sources for Items to Can

Not everyone has an acre of garden beds producing bushels of produce daily, or pastures for cows, goats, pigs or any other living protein source. Some of use are living in town with barely enough room for a small bed of basil… Where do we find quality foods to preserve via canning? Honestly, there are […]

Canning Corned Beef (Plus, a Corned Beef Hash Recipe)

(This is slightly modified from a post I made last week at InTheRabbitHole.com’ s forums. While I do post on lots of other forums, I call their forum “Home”, and end up posting a lot there. They have a tight-knit community established, and while they don’t have a massive number of registered users like some […]

Quail Links

Here are links to articles I’ve written regarding Quail, listed in chronological order, oldest to newest. My choice in animals for “Urbansteading” Birds (chickens, ducks, & quail) Thinking about Raising Coturnix or Pharoah Quail? What to do with thirty Quail Eggs Revisiting My choice in animals for “Urbansteading” Coturnix Quail (Yes, Again!) Backyard Egg Options […]

Quail Week Day 5 – Processing Quail

This is the final chapter in the 5 day Quail Week FloridaHillbilly How-To. We’ve covered my setup and my brooder live video feed, We’ve talked about my incubator, how I built it and the incubation process. We then moved on to brooders, feeders, the importance of water, and how to make a self waterer. And […]