Good morning daily

[BernieQ2]

A good morning to everybody.
Guess what...the new fridge is in Bundaberg waiting for me...so off to bundy today.
That worked out real well Carol has appointment at Childers medical imaging...plus I have something to pick up at Red Ridge...suburb of Childers..then to Bargara to pick up something else...then to Bunnings and spotlight ....then...to the Goodguys to get the fridge.
Gunna be a long day
No rain yesterday, and not much else done...lawn will take a few more days drying before I can get the mower on it.
Funny thing about rabbits...and I still enjoy eating them...in Qld there is a $22,000 fine for having one...Back when we had the farm I had a shed with three bunnies in it one male two female...Norwegian blue buck and NZ white does. They kept me and the freezer full...don't tell the government, I had to find a person of similar thoughts as mine when we sold the farm...
Keep safe.
Bernie.

[native pepper]

G'day Bernie, the rabbit food comment made me laugh, get it all the time but doesn't worry me, especially when it's light hearted. Normally people use it as sarcasm, so just tell them to look in the mirror and judge between how I look and them, shuts them up instantly. I eat forms of grass, bananas and some other edible plants come from the grass family and cows eat grass, so in fact carnivores eat the by products of grass . As they say, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, unless their home is armour plated glass.

Have a great adventurous day Bernie and everyone else.

[Keith Morris]

"tanks" here--
In my youth and early teen years we regularly ate rabbit in all forms; stews, bakes, etc., and then dried and used the skins for pushbike seat covers.
Nowadays, you can buy Rabbit cleaned and dressed in the supermarket for $21.00/kg.
Who ever thought --?
My hospital appointment went like clockwork yesterday, with the inevitable wait period now for the Report via the local GP.
I am having a few days of City living with Doone, and spending some social time wearing "proper" clothes in the city, rather than country style or Wyalkatchem mode of a Tee shirt and shorts without socks.
Bugger it; I can't find my Crevat.
Keith.

[Newcastle George]

Keith, you left it at home.

George

[Keith Morris]

Keith, you left it at home. :(

George

Thanks George, saves me searching through my suitcase again
Keith

[native pepper]

George, used to get 1/6p for a pair of rabbits from the local butcher when a kid and hiding out on my grandparents farm. Got 6-7shillings for a fox scalp and tail from the government, but could get 9 shillings from a fur trader for the entire fox skin with tail and scalp and 10 shillings if no bullet holes. Rabbit skins we got 1 shilling for two skins. Rain gone away, suns coming out and got heaps to do around the place.

[T1 Terry]

I love wild rabbit meat, unfortunately the gun laws prohibit me from popping a few now again, so I haven't had any for quite some time.
When the kids were young, we breed the white rabbits with the markings of a Siamese cat on the paws, ears and tail for pets. The dark brown tipped ones sold for the best money, but as the generation climbed, they kept growing into bigger and bigger rabbits. It got to the stage people were asking us to take the rabbits back because they were getting too much for the kids to handle, then a local let his hunting dogs out over night and they cleared the back fence and killed the lot of them .... so that was the end of rabbit breeding and the kids generating their own income.
I doubt I could have ever eaten one of them, tried hatchery bred rabbit once and the taste was nothing like wild rabbit, so breeding them for meat would be real hard work.

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

Good morning everyone.
Yaa fridge is home...will change the way the door opens today so it is where herself requires it. Got all the other things we had to do yesterday...Bunnings cost a bit
No rain again here yesterday...may get the mower out this arvo.
Next door wishes to borrow my box trailer today...it's all happening.
I spent a lot of my youth in Nundle as a rabbitor love the spelling...I had the use of around a hundred traps...not that I could put that many out at once...I could live on the money earnt. The less I got was 1&6 a pair the most seven and sixpence a pair.. Terry every animal on our farm was for either sale or consumed by us.
Carol had one condition she wasn't there when the animal was slaughted. But once dead she could butcher with me.
I eat meat with every main meal. AND love it. That's not a shot at you NP my daughter doesn't eat meat... but she does eat sea food.
Keep safe.
Bernie.

[native pepper]

Bernie, couldn't care less what people eat, have always wondered why those who can't eat certain foods seem to be labelled as nutters or dietary fanatics, when we do it for our health and no other reason, and it does make a huge difference to your health over the long term I've found. I eat some seafoods at times but have to be careful, enjoy some oysters a couple of times a year and the fish I can eat is only one or two types. Tasmanian black back salmon doesn't effect me at all so when they are running always get a few of thos. Also eat organic chook when can get it which is rare but always enjoyable, but have to restrict the amount and times I eat it, or it seems to accumulate and cause me problems. Tried keeping chooks, but the cats got them and nothing we did seems to stop them, have trapped lots of feral cats over the years and there's still some around.

Where I live there's an atlantic salmon farm nearby and some have asked me if I can eat native salmon, why not farmed atlantic. My reply is, if those working on the fish farm and processing factory won't eat it why should I. Know most of those working on the farm here and none of them will eat the fish, even though international companies owning the farms claim they don't use chemicals, it's in the pellets they feed the fish, they also use unbelievable amounts of antibiotics, because the fish are so diseased from living with thousands of other fish in 20m diameter pens. They throw out tonnes of deformed fish all the time, been told the diseased fish is recycled into fish feed, but can't be sure about that. The red colour of the fish is from a colour dye they use in the feed pellets and is banned in many countries because it's known to cause cancer. Free range salmon both atlantic and native, have pink flesh, not red.

[T1 Terry]

Good morning everyone.
Yaa fridge is home...will change the way the door opens today so it is where herself requires it. Got all the other things we had to do yesterday...Bunnings cost a bit
No rain again here yesterday...may get the mower out this arvo.
Next door wishes to borrow my box trailer today...it's all happening.
I spent a lot of my youth in Nundle as a rabbitor love the spelling...I had the use of around a hundred traps...not that I could put that many out at once...I could live on the money earnt. The less I got was 1&6 a pair the most seven and sixpence a pair.. Terry every animal on our farm was for either sale or consumed by us.
Carol had one condition she wasn't there when the animal was slaughted. But once dead she could butcher with me.
I eat meat with every main meal. AND love it. That's not a shot at you NP my daughter doesn't eat meat... but she does eat sea food.
Keep safe.
Bernie.

It wasn't anything to do with eating something we raised, it was the taste, bland and fatty, nothing like the taste of wild rabbit.
I reckon my testicles would be in a trap and then sprung if I was to trap any of the wild rabbit population around here, the law is very heavy when it comes to trapping around these parts ....

T1 Terry