Day: February 8, 2022

Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — February 8, 2022

February 8th, 1828 was the birthday of Jules Verne, the French writer who wrote From the Earth to the Moon. He is considered the father of science fiction. On February 8th, 1963 the Kennedy administration issued an order prohibiting travel to Cuba and banned financial transactions and commerce with Cuba, by U.S. citizens. — I just noticed that we are now down to less than 100 of the second batch of SurvivalBlog 2005-2021 Archive USB sticks.  There were 600 in that batch. There probably won’t be another  batch, this year. Going, going… — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another …


Raising Chickens From Scratch, by ZChick Lover

To the point: I have accidently discovered a simple action that is of great assistance in raising little chicks – moisten the chick food sometimes. Although I did this in an attempt to save some little distressed chicks who were not eating, this probably is simply called “mash”. Mash is mentioned in this older pamphlet, downloadable free as a pdf from google books. There is a wealth of other information found here in this 1917 book. Another successful action: have a “hospital” area always ready in the kitchen. And finally, I’d like to relay a story of how simply warming …


SurvivalBlog’s News From The American Redoubt

This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, we focus on the ongoing Coutts – Milk River border crossing anti-vax mandate protest. (See the Montana section.) Idaho Ada County deputies rescue woman from icy pond. o  o  o Idaho National Guard activated again for COVID repsonse. o  o  o Police release name of …