Daniel Bird

jordan barton wrote:so having fed animals for a few years. I have often seen animal poop in with the grain i feed. It has mostly been a goat pellet or deer looking pellet.
This was in Organic Chicken Scratch with has barley wheat/corn in it.

So i think it is up to you if you want to eat it......


I think human food is treated differently. Hence the price.
Another thing to consider is the age of the oats. They might be 5 years old. Old stock.

Hmmm, very good considerations. Also,  I never considered fungal toxins.

Hey all,

I have been curious for some time now about oats from the feed store. They are 100% oats packaged as horse feed and priced rather inexpensively when compared to processed oats such as steel cut or rolled oats but my only qualm is that they are coated in mineral oil. Will that affect the edibility of these oats and also, would I be able to mill these into flour or roll them?

Thanks for any wisdom!

Dale Hodgins wrote:I am currently lying on my portable mattress in an unheated house that I'm working on. There is frost outside. I've had to take off some blankets because I got too hot in my super thick track pants.

It was about two years ago and I was in a similar situation, when I started seriously thinking about moving to the tropics. I talked to my wife in the Philippines a few minutes ago and the temperature is about 82 degrees. They're having a very mild winter.

My grandmother used to shut down her house in Ontario, and stay with relatives in Florida, during the winter, sometimes. She always carpooled with a bunch of other relatives, so her total fuel consumption was very little. And then her fuel consumption was just about nothing during the mild Florida winter.

It would be interesting to learn what my share of the jet fuel is, when I escape winter in this way and then return in the spring. I wonder how that would compare to heating a home throughout the winter.

I fuel planes for a living, which doesn't make me exclusively qualified to calculate how much fuel would be used to fly from BC to Florida but I did some quick numbers in comparison with some flights we fuel from the midwest to Portland and came up with, depending upon the passenger capacity of the particular plane you are traveling on you would be responsible for between 58-113 gallons of jet fuel. I figured the numbers for a Boeing 737 which carries between 108 and 210 passengers depending on the configuration which accounts for the large range in fuel responsibility. And I figured the flight to be from Vancouver to Orlando. So, all things considered, it seems to be pretty good when compared to other means of transportation. I know you'd definitely burn a lot more fuel driving.

Thanks for the help! I'll check that all out.

Hello everyone. I am not new to the site but this is my first post. I have wondered about this ever since discovering rocket mass stoves through Paul Wheaton's videos. Is it possible to install a rocket mass stove on the main floor of a 2 story home (with basement)? And if so would the floor need extra support for the weight of the mass? Also, would it heat the 2nd story? I know these are a lot of questions but I really have no idea about these things and would never install one of these stoves without them being answered. But I think the rocket stoves are awesome! Thanks for any input!