The Prepper Broadcasting Network - From Dog Kennel to Chicken Mansion – Building Real Food Security on a Changing Earth

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Building a bulletproof chickencoop.In this episode, we pull back the wire on our complete Texas chicken coop system — built from affordable Tractor Supply dog kennels, salvaged fence wood, 2ft paver blocks, PVC framing, and smart predator-proofing. Learn how we solved mice, fire ants, scorching heat, and 90 mph winds while creating an easy-clean setup that requires nothing more than a bucket and shovel. Whether you’re starting small or scaling up, this is practical homesteading you can replicate today.Then we deliver a full Changing Earth News update: a chronological look at the major disasters of late March through April 2026 — deadly flooding in Kenya, Angola, Haiti, and Ecuador… record tornado outbreaks across Texas, Oklahoma, and the Midwest… persistent Nevada earthquake swarms… deepening drought and Hoover Dam concerns… solar CME activity… volcanic unrest… blizzards… and more. These events remind us why building resilient food sources matters now more than ever.Plus, big announcements: Prepper Camp 2026 is coming, and Season Five of The Changing Earth Audio Drama has launched with full video episodes!Dream, Survive, Thrive!Listen now and start strengthening your own backyard protein fortress.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/prepper-broadcasting-network--3295097/support.BECOME A SUPPORTER FOR AD FREE PODCASTS, EARLY ACCESS & TONS OF MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT!Red Beacon Ready OUR PREPAREDNESS SHOPThe Prepper's Medical Handbook Build Your Medical Cache – Welcome PBN FamilySupport PBN with a Donation Join the Prepper Broadcasting Network for expert insights on #Survival, #Prepping, #SelfReliance, #OffGridLiving, #Homesteading, #Homestead building, #SelfSufficiency, #Permaculture, #OffGrid solutions, and #SHTF preparedness. With diverse hosts and shows, get practical tips to thrive independently – subscribe now!Newsletter – Welcome PBN FamilyGet Your Free Copy of 50 MUST READ BOOKS TO SURVIVE DOOMSDAY

Welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson, blending survival, fiction, and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 492. you. We're getting damn close to the 500 episodes. That's awesome. Right. Hey, Jim, what's up?

We have to go to Indy or Daytona. Right. To film live. 500 episodes. We'll film from the pace car. We'll drive the base car. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.

Like, I was thinking my mom and I were talking about it the other day. Like, if somebody wanted to listen to my podcast, you'd have to do it like over you know it'd take you longer than a year every day listening to one show so and about a decade of my life all recorded it's crazy that's cool but here we still are just rocking it out and uh i've been busy down here in texas um we so so when we moved we moved from like 40 acres in the country to urban america we have a acre people say we're in the country, but for us it feels like we're in like super rural America or super urban America, right? So all of my projects that at like my homesteading projects have

been figuring out how to make them like kind of yuppie, but take all the, yeah, but take like all the knowledge and the homesteading knowledge that I've been accruing over this decade and make them pretty cool and functional and so that's what we're talking about today is my chicken coop if you can believe that what kind of chicken coop is it it is the bulletproof and it's not really bulletproof it's just you know the terminology like you could definitely take the AR out and put some holes in that thing rooster with a gun turret yeah yeah like a little squirrel so so um But I've made a lot of chicken coops in my life. We've owned chickens since forever.

I don't know. I guess I was 13 when my mom first got our first chicken. And they just stayed in a barn in the stall, you know, had a little door that let them in and out. So I've had that kind of chicken coop. We've built long alleys with all the laying boxes on the side and all the, I mean, you name it. like sheds that were just converted to chicken coops. We've had them all.

So this system is really one of my absolute favorite systems. And I kind of developed it because I watched a lot of Little House on the Prairie. And I know, I know. We did a show in that already. Yeah, that's like dating me too. But I watched a lot of Little House on the Prairie, read all the books, all that kind of stuff. And they always had just like this dog house that was like elevated, just out there.

That was all I had, you know. And that's great. I'm sure they had a lot of chicken loss and stuff like that. That's been one of the things we've been up against. So, but I was like, you know, they don't need that much space. They don't need that much stuff. So when we started, we moved to Texas in 2020. We didn't have any chickens.

We did that for like a year. And I was like, we got to have. our own chickens again because the eggs are just so superior. Plus they take care of a fair amount of scraps too, right? Like now we have the composter because I'll explain a problem we had out here in Texas. But typically you can feed your chickens a lot of scraps and they take care of a lot of those issues as well. So love having my chickens. Year two, we had to get chickens back.

we're broke we're usually uh you know shoestring budgeting things i'm just figuring out how to take old stuff and make new stuff work so we've always been under the belief that because we've done all kinds of wire right field fencing um all kinds of different wire we had to keep bears out of our coops uh you know just get creative to make that happen and um all kinds of things so we came down to the dog kennel. Because if it keeps a dog in, it's going to keep a dog out. A dog out.

Right. So it's really, really efficient as far as cost of getting started and everything like that. I really like the, we buy the ones from tractor supply, the dog kennels. I can't remember what the name of the company is, but it's definitely just like you're running the bill, dog kennel. Um, the thing that I like about it the most is it's the panel system. So you can really match and move like where, what, where you want your door. So, you know, that kind of thing. Where you want the, it has like a door that you can turn into a door for the outside area.

I'll show that picture in a minute. Um, but I really like this, the setup because of that. So we also had a privacy fence. I hate fence. Like I just I've lived in the country too long I really hate them so we and it was starting to fall down anyway like the sun out here just destroys them and they turn into scrapwood anyway. So the chicken coop that I'm showing you now if you're watching the video and I'll try to put the video connected to the blog so you guys can come back and see if you're usually listening audio only. I took a lot of pictures of it so you can check. check it out and see what the design was and what we came to.

Quick note before we continue on, because I want to make sure that we give a shout out to Preper Camp 2026 coming up very, very shortly. August. I know. August this year, not September. I know I'm going to have to ship books to you soon. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

So it's at the Tyron International Equestrian Center. It's going to be fun of out. Try on. Try on. Try it on. Try it on. on, right? Try on. Try on. Try on. Okay.

There you go. And I always say words very screwed up. I have too many dialects going on in this little body of mine. Too many voices. Right. I'm from the north. I've lived in Cali. I'm living the south. So I just in my mouth. People are like, where are you from? I don't know.

I don't know. I'm from America. But, yeah, Preper Camp 2026 is going to be off the chain. guys, you got to get out there. If you have not come out before, because maybe, you know, staying there, where to stay, that kind of thing was an issue. That is no longer an issue,

so you got to check that out. Also, season five of the Changing Earth audio drama is now up and live. The videos are turning out really cool. I've been pouring my heart and soul into those. So if you guys get over there, check out the videos, give it a like, subscribe, maybe comment on it.

That would be great. It helps move everything along. And the more that we can just show that everybody's loving the change in Earth, we'll get it to the TV screen before too long. So all that's in the works and whatnot. But that's the hurry up and wait type of game. But the audio drama is out. It's live.

Go check it out on YouTube. Change of Earth series. Just look for that and you'll find it. It's been a blast to put together. And thank you to all the volunteers, including you Chin, who do voices for the show. I have been dabbling a little bit in like some AI characters for side characters only, but other than that, it's all us. It's all PBN.

And everybody's so special for helping out with that. So thank you so much. Pretty much everybody from Preper Camp, I have doing voices now. I got to get Ken. I got to get Ken going on so. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, you'd be classic. You need a good old Georgia boy.

He'll get you. Just like Dane doing Mr. Lee. He's just always got the best ablives. I just listen to his audio's best. Okay, so let's get back into the chicken coop. So some specific problems that Texas arose. So I've lived in Michigan and had chickens. So up north, we've got a lot of ice, stuff like that.

You're going to have to be aware of. And Cali. you know we had a lot of gopher the squirrels that live in the ground ground squirrels the ground squirrels and they literally will steal your eggs and eat them

we also had yeah we replaced them with golf balls for a while because then they would just be getting golf balls so we'd try to get the eggs real fast and put golf balls in there we also had like bear foxes hawks We've had a ton of Fox coyote and bobcat

on our trail cameras on the property Yeah This past couple weeks And chicky is such a nice little snack It's a delicatessa Yes yeah One of the things we did for the bears That would work really efficiently as well

You might want to bury the line When you have more predators You bury your fencing you know But we put nails into a board with them sticking out. And that way when the bear put his paws up to the fence to pull it down, he would touch that instead. And boy, it deterred him.

He did not go after those ducks anymore. So we've had ducks in the past, too. And it worked. So do that along the ground. Just make sure you're aware that it's there because that could do some serious damage. But it works. You know, you got to do it.

You've got to do. It's traps and stuff like that we've set up. So some specific problems we have out here in Texas, the heat, obviously, is primary. The fire ants were absolutely relentless. And one of my favorite chickens I go out there and she's dead, just covered in fire ants. So they can get to the chicken and just start stressing it out like crazy. And then it dies. So that and the mice, because it's all sandy here, they go under the ground, actually, and they'll dig up right by the feeder and then pop out real quick and eat the food and go back down their hole.

And the chickens will kill them if they're there. But when they can go that close to the feeder, the chickens don't have time to get them, right? So before I came up with this system, it was just really a struggle on how to maintain those firemen. ants how to you know keep them cool and also provide them with the skill the ability to hunt

those little mice because they'll do the job it's just giving them the time to be able to do it so what we came up with we went with the dog kennel obviously is the outside the privacy fence story comes up because the privacy fence

got ripped down and we turned it all into chicken coop So we actually put a two by four across from there's bars inside of the dog kennel that you use as supports and then build. We still put legs on it just to provide that extra little bit. But most of the coop is actually being held up by the two by fours that sit across the bars with the box built on there. And that's just all old privacy fence that we cut down to the size we wanted and made it into a box. and then for the roof, because I'm a firm believer in a roof, your chickens are going to go up.

They will literally scale the edge the side like a Velociraptor. They'll scale the chicken coop to be at the top, or the dog kennel to be at the top. They were some crazy chickens. These are Texas chickens that I got. I would not recommend tractor-supplied chickens. I have raised chickens for a very long time, and I've never had chickens that got egg-bound,

which means they can't lay the egg, it gets stuck, right? And then it kills them. And I have like six out of the 10 that I bought from Tractor Supply do that. So I don't know. That was the first time I bought it from there. But my two old betties from Tractor Supply are still living. They live in the left side. And that's where on the image that you guys are seeing, if you're watching live or on the video,

they live on the left side. and that the roof is all from that privacy fence as well. We just u-bolted it to the top of the kennel. So to get the wood right to stick to the kennel, we just use you-bolt. Good hail protection. Right, right? Like nothing's coming in on those girls there.

And it provides all that shade, right? Because my solution to the ants and to the mice, was concrete. And I was like, oh. That's the one big slab right there. So instead of pouring a slab, we bought the two-foot paver blocks and just put paver blocks down. And that way you can move them if you want to.

Like if you're like, oh, I want my coop someplace else or whatever. You can move on. The ants don't come up between that? No, not enough, right? So I have another key, but not enough to present that problem. And see, I couldn't even give. my chickens the table scraps anymore because the ants would be on them faster than my chickens would eat it all. Right. So I was like, something's got to give. So further for the ants,

I use diatomaceous earth and it's perfectly edible for them. I'll just do a line around the whole outside of the coop. And if it ever gets bad because the ants do come in trying to get to their food, then I'll just put down diatomaceous earth in there after I hose it all out. And that's the other beautiful thing about having the concrete down there, you can just hose it all. No more like having to use a shovel and you got wood shavings all over the ground and then you have to scoop that up and in your wheelbarrow and it's all this extra work. I just go in there with a hose and hose at all. And it's happy.

So as you're keeping it shaded, it won't get too hot for them. Right. That was the other thing. We wanted to make sure they had plenty of shade so that didn't get too hot. and then we built this outside area so if you're looking at the video you can see right it is basically an outside aviary we actually get birds stuck in there they come in they want to they want some of the food and everything and they'll go out into the yard and then get stuck in there so all that is is treated two by fours.

We did a 10 foot 20 by 10 on this coop. It's just two chickens in this side. So we're not super worried about it being too big for them. We are planning on doing

additional hoops behind the coop so that we have rotation. We can rotate them between pastures, right? Because you can see they hammer the ground, wherever they are. That's what chickens do. But I was really happy with this system really easy to put up. And like if we sell the house and somebody doesn't want it there,

it's super easy to bring it down as well. All this is is three quarter inch PVC. And we put in the wood structure on the bottom. We you bolted the wood or the PVC to the wood. And then at the top of it is just a T or a cross. And that way the pipes come up into the sack. and then they run through along. I mean, it's really, really simple.

Yeah. And when you're, you just put it all together on the ground and then you just push the PVC in and it all sproings up, you know, glue the top. And then it all springs up. And I mean, it is so simple to do. Best system. You put netting over it? So we did chicken wire on the outside of that. So start along the bottom.

It gets stapled. you want to bury it if you're in a high predator area. You want to make sure you're burying it a little bit. But it gets all stapled to the wood down there. And then as we went up the side, we were just wrapping the chicken wire and we zip tied it all around to the poles and to each other. And boom, it's so righteously easy. We have slammed so many tea posts to make chicken runs and stuff

at like to a nightmarish level. this is so easy it gives them the over-the-top protection so that hawks can't swoop in all of that stuff and then you can see in the picture i planted a blackberry there so i'm going to have the blackberry climb all over it to help you have a more shade even on that side and then in the summertime brock will also leave the grass a little bit longer there right up against the side so that you know it's providing them with more shade that is the yard is pretty sunny that what he's telling you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Their yard is pretty sunny. Um, we're one of the benefits of having it up there, like these houses here, when they build them, they strip all the top soil away. And so the

soil really sucks. Um, so we're remedying that by making patches that we can turn into gardens and stuff like that. Well, having the chicken the coop there, every time I hose it and all of that chicken manure and water runs down the hill, it's some of our best grass now. because it's just feeding everything. I also usually put in like a downspout, you know, on your house. To catch, yeah. To catch. And then you can shoot it right in a bucket.

And then I can take it to the gardens or put it wherever I want to. So that's a pretty slick little thing about this coop as well. Do you grow sisters back there and collect the water and then water your chicken coop? Right. Yeah. So that's where I'm going is into the system. sustainability items for it. You're absolutely right.

We could be collecting water off of it and doing that as well. So this is the picture of the inside of the little coop. This is just the normal dog kennel that you'd buy. It's not expanded or anything like that. It's just a normal dog kennel. It's built out of wood, the fence, the privacy fence that we took down. When we get the babies, we just put chicken wire across the doorway that you see there. So keep them up in the...

Yep, to just keep them in the box for a little bit and make sure they're big enough to go out. Once they're big enough for me to open that up, they can go down the ramp safely, they can jump up and everything. I put chicken wire on the bottom of the dog kennel. That way they're not popping through. Oh, so they can't sneak out, yeah. Right, yeah. Because there's still little enough to go to get down there. Um, this one of the problems that I have with it is it's not big enough for me to put the food inside.

So inside of the actual, inside of the actual box, right? Oh, it's like the. Yeah. So it sits underneath. And when it gets really, really stormy, then their food will get wet and it gets muckety and stuck in the thing. Um, I don't know. I mean, I, I'm just. So when it's rainy days and whatnot, we just put less food in there.

And then we make sure we're filling it more often. So here's the inside of the chicken coop. Oh, the other side opens. That's cool. Yeah. Yep. So that whole thing opens up. We like to have lots of access.

Yeah. And one of the coolest things about this is there is no shoveling involved. I just open up that door. I put a bucket underneath it and I just swoop everything into the bucket. Fooped there is it? Yeah, it is easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. Some people might be like, well, you don't have, you know, a laying box, right? The laying boxes.

You know, if you have a little ridge to keep the eggs from falling, I mean, that would be an addition I'd put on ours, maybe, because it's easier to clean out without them. I have like one egg in a hundred, maybe roll off, you know. So, but we do. Nesting boxes, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I don't worry about building it nesting boxes. Chickens are going to lay eggs.

You make them healthy, happy. They get food, water. They're happy. They're going to lay eggs. It doesn't matter if they have a little box to do it in or not. Like, it's a waste, in my opinion. But that's just my opinion. I'm just Sarah.

One thing we used to do was use wood shavings, a lot of wood shavings, right? And it's always a mess. I still have some in my shed, you know, just in case I need to put some in a yard so it's not so muckety in the wintertime or something. But they sell these nesting pads now, and they're really, really slick. They're more expensive, but they last a lot longer. They're a lot cleaner. You can just grab the pad and throw them out. and it takes about six of them to do,

it takes four like in the center and then I have to cut one in half or two of them in half to put in the correct places. So it takes about six of them to do this box. So that one's, you know, it's pretty effective. So if you're going to have a small time, like you just want a small time coop, not a lot of production, that kind of thing,

you know, maybe four to six chickens in this coop is just fine. Um, here's just a picture of the ground. I haven't hosed it off in a little bit. I was going to do it this morning, but I was like, you know what? That's not so bad because it's been raining. Um, so I just have the water down there. Uh, their little ramp is, you know, it just has to be a nice little ramp for them.

This is a picture of the door that is on the coop, um, in the dog kennel. So they have these little things built into them. We just tie them back. And so if we were in a high, predator area, I would close this every night and lock it down because nothing's getting inside that metal area. They can definitely, right, like a predator could definitely get into the aviary area if they were out there at night. So the chickens come in anyway. They go in their box at night. So I would lock that down at night. But we haven't had any problems with that. I have a great big German

shepherd, you know, so I haven't had to do that, but that is definitely an option. The doors are there. you can just, you undo a certain bolt a certain way, boom, it swings open. You don't even have to like buy any extra hardware for it or anything. It's really cool. And that's why I like that. Here's one of the outside yard area from the other direction. So it just shows you, you know, what that kind of looks like when you're looking at the other way with Miss Shadow Bear bombing along in there.

She's always photo bomb in my photos. All right. And then, so we liked that coop. It was great. But then we got new chickens because my chickens are, we only had two. They weren't laying anymore. And I was like, all right, it's time for new chickens, you know. So what are we going to do about this?

And I want more of this time. And we wanted to have one side. I'm going to eventually turn the little one into our like breeding area, you know. So I can have. Yeah, right. I can have producing females and rooster in this. but not a lot going on. So then we got, you know, 12 new chicken.

I can't remember how many. We're down to 10 now. We built the chicken mansion, which is just awesome. So this one is double the size of the other one. We used the common wall and we just hooked. We bought another dog kennel and we just opened that one up and hooked it to the common wall. Yeah. So there's one in there, which is, that works slick.

We had bought a roof for it when it was Ragnar's kennel, my German Shepherd when it was his kennel. But the roof wouldn't fit on when we opened it up. It wouldn't fit on there anymore. So the roof on this one, because they were flying out, God knows why, because they have a beautiful space in there, is just two by fours we put across, you bolted, and then put chicken wire on it. Basically, the only reason why we put the wood there is so that the chicken wire wouldn't slump down on our heads when we were inside of the chicken coop, right? And then you have, what, like a sunscreen or something up there? Yeah.

So I put a, we tied, we pulled that sunshade real tight over the top. Yeah. Because another problem I have in Texas is the wind. And I've watched one of these empty kennels fly by in the 90 mile an hour gusts before. So, yeah, there was nothing in it, right? and it just picked up, and busted one of the doors on it. So with the amount of wood we have in the little chicken coop,

all that weight for the roof, and then building in the mansion, nothing moves this. It's going to have to be a big wind event. Oh, like there's a tornado coming through. And at that point, you know. So they're not stick down to the ground? Nope.

I did not stick them to the ground. Nope. They're just put on there, and then the wood weight is just weighing them down. Hmm. Yeah. I mean, easy, peasy. Really, you could wrap this whole setup up.

Like if we wanted to move to a different property tomorrow, I could pick this whole setup and move it. The biggest thing would be the mansion box system that's inside of the big one because it is same thing. We elevated it using the sides and built it in to hold it all down, right? So all the wood is built into that kennel to hold it all down. And so that would be the biggest challenge is how. to move that gigantic box.

Here's the run on that one. The run for this one, since there's more chickens in it, we just doubled it. We just took the idea and doubled it. And it worked just great. That's the best setup I've seen. And then you can see my little drain spout is up because he's about to mow.

That's the drain spout sitting there by the door. Yeah, that I have down on the ground typically for when I'm hosing it to direct the stuff where I want it to go. All right, let me go ahead and get some more pictures up forward here. Because I want to show you this one is really cool. The whole face of the mansion opens. So, let's see.

I couldn't upload all my pictures for you guys at once. Okay, so here's a picture of the one side of it. And this is where they like to lay their eggs. a lot. You can see the eggs in the little nest area. See, this one's big enough as well for me to put the feeder inside of it. It kind of creates some chaos sometimes when they all want at it. But, you know, they figure it out. Everybody eats. Everybody's looking healthy. So I'm a fan of that system. It looks like you got a climbing wall for the ramp. Right. So that was a fun project. We didn't have like a whole bunch of scraps on hand. So I used one of those is actually the whittles stick that Brad's

kids and Christian made at Pryper Camp. We preserved it and put it on there as a step for the chickens. And then I just use like, you know, the spikes that you put in the ground for like benderboard landscape projects. I just used that for the stairs. So anything works. I just stained it. And it works. Here's the corner view You can see I put the They were actually jumping on top of the houses To roost at night And then pooping all over the top of them

And then I'd have to hose that off And it was a big pain in the butt So I chicken wired off the whole top So they couldn't get up there anymore And we gave them that roosting bar down low You can see the door on the left's open now And then the corners inside They both open up as well

So let me show you that It gets kind of weird to maneuver in there. But, I mean, in the long run, to clean out this coop is just really, really easy. So here's the inside, the corner inside when it's all opened up. You can get in there to get eggs. You've got to have full access to everywhere, right? Because they could lay anywhere.

So you have to be able to get to everywhere inside of the coop to make sure you can collect eggs from everywhere. But, yeah, it all opens up. And this system is pretty darn sweet. Let me show you this one here. See, and that's with it all closed down. That's the other door on the left over there. So it literally goes from corner to corner across the whole coop.

And the door is behind me in this photo. And also their entryway to their outside pen is back there. I think I had it right here. Yeah. So see, that's turned around from where I was and out the, that's the other door there. So I just wanted to show, I mean, it's been years and years of chicken coops and chickens and different designs and different cleaning out different, you know, bird cages and all of this. And this one, I'm like, wherever we go, this is what we're going to build because it is slick. It is really, really cool.

A really nice system. Yeah, you could disassemble it and take it with you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you literally can. So if they want it, you know, whoever buys my house is, well, that's fine. It's a premium. Right, exactly.

But otherwise, we can just disassemble it, roll up the chicken wire, undo the straps, pull the kennels, and we're gone. We can move the whole setup. So it's pretty slick, especially if you wanted to move. around. And, like I say, we're going to put another hoop system in just so we can rotate the pens and get them on some fresh grass once in a while, because they've already beaten that down pretty hardcore there. You know, I wonder if you could get, like, you know how they do sod? Yeah. If you could find a sod farm or a sod place that has reject scraps? Yeah, I don't know. It's all worth so much these days, dude.

You know, because you could just throw side pieces in there. It's true. One of the things that I really like to do is I take lentils. I got this from Rick, actually. Put lentils in, I just have like a grow sheet and just sprout the lentils. And then I'll bring them up sprouts and that. Because that's my real mission next as I'm working on systems that I can put in place that are easy to manage that create food.

for them. Oh, the soldier flies too. He loves his little soldier fly. The black soldier flies. Factory, yeah. Yeah. So that's something, I was thinking about meal worms, you know, that we could grow mealworms, different things that we grow in the garden that we might not eat, but we'll feed it to them. Like lettuce grows like crazy and you can just give it to them. When it's vaulting and whatnot and you don't want to eat it because it's so bitter. Chicken's still. love it. They can literally eat like all the grass clippings from your mowing activity. They can eat all that. If you have tomato worms and stuff like that on your plants, on your tomatoes, they eat all that. These little guys, they'll eat your toes when you come in there. They're like little velociraptors.

I'm not kidding. I call them the velociraptors. They're just some Texas chickens. They're getting it out. Like, yeah. So, yeah, pretty cool system. If anybody has any questions, you want to hit me up about it. Go ahead and let me know. Do you have, so do you have problems in the winter with, do you have to put heat lamps? Or do you have a way to heat it? No, I don't have any.

I don't get that cold. Even if it is, they snuggle up in a corner and they figure it out. They do. I'm not kidding. You know, down here. Now, if I was up in the Midwest, It would be maybe a different tune, right? But even in the Midwest, we didn't have...

My mom didn't run a heater for the chickens. Really? One of the biggest things, if you don't collect the eggs fast enough, the eggs will freeze. So that is a concern. And same in the summer. You got to collect them when it's really, really hot. You got to make sure you collected them fast.

But no, everybody's just... They huddle up together. They're fine. They're good to go. it's a nice little insulated area for them and they do really good so the biggest thing uh one of my babies when i first opened it up we got a windstorm and it blew like two chickens out they were sitting in the doorway and it that swirled them around the inside of that thing and they were done yeah well that sucked that was one that i had like nurse back the health and stuff but you know these things they happen

So, yeah, we don't have any problems with that. I just don't, the water freezes, right? So I'll have to switch. I keep a water down here at the house, and I can switch my waters out. Yeah. And then with the food getting wet, that's a problem that we run into a lot. Because it turns into concrete. I think the original recipe for concrete definitely involved.

Crack corn. Yeah, like crack corn because, you know, it gets pretty yucky in the summertime. But they'll eat all that. So, all righty, cool. I'm also going to do a show.

I'm thinking about doing the laters of Prepper Camp. That was a fun show. I'm thinking of doing that one. But we built these really cool new gardens, too. We're just not, like, fully done yet. And I would love to present those as well. I'm going to do a show on those and then let you know if we're successful. We are up against Texas this year.

And I'm going to grow enough tomatoes. I have canned my own tomato since the day I was married. We haven't bought tomato products in decades. And I've not been able to get enough to actually can up since we lived here. So I'm correcting the problem this year. I went all in. God knows. Um, but I am like going to beat Texas this year.

So I'll report back on that one. You guys have to hold me accountable. But yeah. All righty. So let's jump into the changing earth news. It's going to be a little bit of a long show, guys. I've got some great stuff to bring you. And we didn't do change in earth news last, uh, last year, last week, uh, last month,

which coach Asher, but that was a great show, right? That was good. Yeah. He's an awesome guy. I'm blessed, bless, bless, blessed to have him in the area. I've wanted to train Krav for so long. And then, oh, here comes, like, phenomenal instructor. I'm like, thank you, Lord, for Coach Asher.

So everybody, check that show out if you didn't see it last year. Or, goodness, last month. All right, let's do some change of earth news. I'm quite concerned about what's coming next. Personally, I think we'll probably see food shortages and other. disruptions. Are you prepared if things go wrong? Does your family have enough food and supplies on hand to last at least 30 days? If not, the time to prepare is right now. Don't wait another minute. To help you on your journey, I recommend my Patriot Supply. They're the leaders in self-reliance,

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So one of the big things that's been happening are these earthquake swarm activity in Nevada. And everybody's kind of pointed at like, oh, Area 51, area 51, well, it's not, there's a lot of activity that happens there in Nevada anyway. There's some huge fault lines and some major stuff just beyond like area 50 ones there. So on April 13th, there was a 5.7 in Silver Springs,

and it's triggered a lot of aftershocks from those events. So definitely an odd thing to have happening. We want to just remember like earthquakes can happen everywhere. So make sure that, you know, you're not like, oh, I don't live in California. It's not going to happen to me. Right. Just make sure you have.

you keep your glasses close by your bed, you keep a pair of shoes close by your bed, that kind of thing. It's the same prep as we do for everything else, but definitely something to watch out for. When we get into the earthquake activity later, you're going to see what I mean, because it's not just Cali.

The other thing that really hit my radar just recently, Glenn Beck just did a show on the Hoover Dam, and just how low. we are. It has not been getting the amount of water that it needs. And I've been reporting on this for a couple of years now, you know, about the levels of this. The other thing that really, really scares me, because we're not getting the same amount of water that most people don't think about is the Ogalala Reservoir. It's just an underground cavern of water, you know, and we've just been depleting and depleting and depleting it.

And so now you're just creating a void, which really, really concerns me. I was hoping when I did my research on the Ogalala that it would be like, oh, it's not made of the right kind of stone that would collapse, but it is. And the pipeline runs right above that. The gosh, I can't remember the Nordstrom pipeline or something, whatever, that big pipeline the big oil pipeline is. So the whole thing is just really, really threatening to me,

scary for the Middle United States, scary for our food supply, that kind of thing. And we're just talking like serious amounts of... So check out the Glenn Beck episode. He's going to do it way more justice than I do. But when the dam at Hoover, the turbines cannot have air. in them at all.

And when the water gets so low, they have to start running those turbines slower, basically, because they're very frightened of air getting in there. And then if it goes down too far, it's called a Deadpool. Obviously, nothing to do with the movie or anything like that. But they can't run those turbines. It is. It is. They can't run the dams.

And that's like millions of Americans that aren't going to have power in vain. and Phoenix and Los Angeles. So not only that, but we're talking about less power, less ability to get water to crops for farmers in California with higher food prices, which we're already looking at, whether that be price gouging by the powers of B at this time, and then the fuel costs on top of that. So I say it every time, any investment that you're going to make

in your long-term food supply is best done right away because it is going to pay off in the future. It always does. I shop at Sam's Clubs, and I only go like twice a year, right? I hate going there. And I put down some coin when I'm there because I only go there twice a year, right? So it used to be that I could go to Sam's,

get like tons of canned veggies, coffee supply for, like, six months, everything for six months for like 500 bucks. Yeah, 400. 500 bucks was like, wow. It cost me a grand last time I was there. Yeah. We were just there. Well, Costco. Yeah. Different. Right. It just doesn't feel like the savings were what we used to see. No. Not at all. I was like, wow. I'm like, this is $80 and just coffee. And that was only, you know, four bags. It will last us about six. months, but I found that Glenn Beck Hoover, I'm going to put it in the, the, um, which element. And he's going to do more on that because it's definitely, um, the Hoover is not the only

dam being affected. I also worry about, um, like the Fort Peck Dam up north. We've talked about it before. And it's Earth 11 dam. And so say the water level starts going down and like the dam's not getting the amount of water flow that it was. Then we have these hundred year rain events hit it. You know, that's scary stuff. And they're fracking right there by it. They're not very earthquake compatible. So the Fort Peck Dam would wipe out the Mississippi Valley if it went for those of you haven't seen my show on that one. So, you know, there's a lot of infrastructure things that we really need to be focusing on rather than, God knows, you know, what we're doing these days. I don't even try and watch. I'm sorry. I just.

I look for, you know, what's going on with the planet, what's going on. That's going to have a major effect, but I just can't engage with the day-to-day nonsense anymore. It's just, I think it's a, it's a distraction that's, it's made to distract us. Yes, just like sports. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a bit of type building a better chicken coop. right exactly

watching to see what gossip and my gardens and stuff like that and um uh you know all the times we report we've done so many shows on it being psychological warfare right and it's like well when do you cut it off the psychological warfare but then you also want to be present in your community

so like what you're doing with your cert teams and you know getting involved in local politics that's your You just started volunteering with the sheriff's department. That's a great networking opportunity. Yeah, that's so true. Right? And that way you're kind of on the pulse,

but you don't have to be exposed to all that psychological warfare. All right, before we get into the list, too, the rundown, I got a rundown list for you, but there were some things that were big, big pointers. So the amount of tornado activity that has happened already this year in the United States, pretty crazy. record activity. We've already had EF2s,

three's, fours touchdown this year. You know, always around Easter, it gets pretty rowdy down here in the south, but, you know, to see them up in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, up in those areas, it's,

you know, just more and more prevalent. It seems like the tornado season just never really stopped last year. Maybe we had a couple months off, and now here, it is again picking right back up and we're talking some major damage so you know somebody who's in the insurance industry to watch disaster after disaster happen it's like uh what's that going to do to rates how's that going to affect you it's all pretty pretty scary stuff so oh not to mention the

amount of heartache heart I mean the loss not only of life but of your whole everything that you new, so everybody can use some prayers that are up against those tornadoes. Preliminary totals, 262 to 292 plus tornadoes for the month. Yeah. Like, that's just insane, right? And you're just shredded by it. So that is making sure that you know what to do in the event of a tornado and everybody, Well, we've seen them on the top of mountain tops in Colorado now.

So I'm not going to say like where the geographical area is that you should be ready for that because it seems like it's just expanding its reach big time. So definitely we've done tons of shows, guys, on getting ready for things like this. So not going to go into that too much. Go check out the shows. But definitely be prepared. Also, we still have, though, weakening shielding of our planet with the pole shift, and that is just bringing us this extreme weather, and this is going to continue.

So one of the things I was actually pondering, if you've been following my show for a long time, with the magnetic shields weakening, the volcanic activity has seemed to just really, really uptick. You know, it was just like a year ago that 29 was a big deal for volcanoes and now it's been on the 40s for too long. So I'm wondering if that's kind of nature's natural way of compensating for the amount of uptick of solar radiation that we're receiving is by puffing off more into the atmosphere. And the solar radiation gets the magma charged up, which is causing the volcanoes to wake up. So it seems like the Lord knows a lot more what he's doing than we do. But just something I was pondering as far as that goes. I don't know. You can comment on it.

Whatever. I'll take all kinds of heat for it. But we've watched the earth is spinning faster and it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. I thought that was the cause. So you just thought the earth was trying to get him out of office quicker. Yeah, yeah. Right. All right.

So let's jump into our list. On March 4th, Aetna has been active. She has been alive and she's been causing earthquakes over there. There was a whole area of this one cliff that got just annihilated. So as this earthquake or as this volcanic activity upticks, eyes on Italy because there's just a lot of threat in that area. So everybody there should definitely be prepared always. On the fifth, there was an earthquake in Louisiana.

This was a big one. I think I mentioned it on the show, even though we didn't do a change in earth last week or last month. I'm sorry, we'll be back to weekly shows eventually. An M4.9, so it was pretty big. It didn't really do any damage, but man, it was unusual to have one there. And so it's just an eyes-on situation. You know, Western Texas takes them a lot, but over there in Louisiana,

it's not something that you normally see. On March 5th, there was tornadoes in Central USA. This is Michigan. There was also a couple in Oklahoma. It was about 25 tornadoes in an outbreak, eight deaths. from that activity, widespread damage, power outages. Kenya is seeing a significant amount of flooding way more than their normal monsoon rain.

So they're having flash floods and landslides, more than 71 deaths there. Mostly drowning or electrocution because their electrical systems are definitely not built the same way as ours. And so when you get all that flooding, then you get the electricity lines in there Thousands of people have been displaced,

infrastructure damage, agricultural damage. They are used to having monsoons, so when you see activity like this happening, you know, it's an uptick from what is normal. On the 9th to the 10th

of March, there was flooding in Java, Indonesia. This was heavy rain caused by causing floods, landslides, wind damage. Seven death, for missing, it was local property damage and agricultural impact. So Indonesia is always, it's just an island I wouldn't want to live on. I don't know. They must grow a lot of food there to make it worth it. There's flooding in Hawaii. Do you remember the big flooding that happened in Hawaii?

That was on the 10th. Historic flooding, billions of gallons hit the ground, property damage, evacuations, blizzard conditions on the big island up in the mountains. So, you know, one extreme to another there. On March 12th, flooding in Ethiopia, landslides from heavy rains, so it was 52 to 102 deaths, including property damage and infrastructure damage. On the 12th of March, we had wildfires start up in Nebraska. These are were massive.

I don't understand. I tend to think of Nebraska more like open area, plains area, that kind of thing. We're talking like 642,000 acres went up. That was crazy. 192,000 acres plus

in a companion fire. One person lost their life in that. There was numerous evacuations. It destroyed homes, barns, fences, structures. So definitely you can see, see how that lack of rain, how this drought we've been in, is impacting, you know, areas like Nebraska, where you wouldn't think of these huge, major wildfires.

On the blizzard storm in North America got hit on the 13th March, last storm, we used to always say, well, it always snows once in April when we lived in Michigan, but they got just clobbered. three to four feet of snow ice in Michigan. 56 tornadoes kicked off from that storm. So we got cold and tornadoes, which, you know, don't usually hear about that. We've had also a lot of thunder lightning. So like, not thunder lightning, ice lightning, where it comes into ice storm and you're getting lightning, which doesn't usually happen either.

$1.4 billion in damage from that event, widespread power outages, road closures, lots of infrastructure damage, and lots of damage to agricultural areas. There was flooding in Malawi affected more than 310,000 people, 34 deaths, major displacement there, and agricultural impact from that flooding. So big events, guys, just wild flood events. flooding and drought right next to each other in just crazy intense amounts. On the 20th of 2006 in March, there was a CME that kicked off a G3. The auroraum was visible at lower latitudes, much lower than it should be under normal circumstances. So it's still eyes on seeing the auroras as low as Florida, as low as Cuba. In just the recent past, that is definitely not normal activity.

so it has to do a lot with our weakening magnetic shield. On the 20th to the 27th of 2006 in March, Cyclone hit Australia. Cyclone Australia. No, Cyclone Narell. Multiple landfalls, heavy rain, strong winds. This is their hurricane season, basically, down there. No loss of life reported in that event.

March 24th, 20126, there was a, earthquake and Tonga. Those hit big. They hit deep. They tend to ripple around the whole ring of fire. This was a 7.5. So that is a big earthquake. I also saw a nine-pointer in March, so I wonder if they've downgraded those.

But not unusual to have these big, deep earthquakes hit Tonga area, but they do ripple around the ring of fire, which you'll see in the earthquake numbers in a minute. March 29th, 30th. the 2006, Semaru and Indonesia erupted. Again, the volcano uptick's been insane. March 30th, Venatu earthquake. 7.3, it's in the same area as Tonga. Again, this is where these deep earthquakes hit.

This one caused several injuries, airport damage, building runway, rock falls, power outages. So big event happening there. flooding in Afghanistan on March 30th, about 28 to 148 deaths. The reports vary on that, but widespread property damage. Earthquake in Indonesia on April 1st, a 7.4. One person did lose their life in that event. Even for Indonesia, that is a big event.

7.4s don't just, they don't just, they're the damaging kind. One death, four injuries, strong shaking. CME went off that day, and it can be that the CME is what actually caused that earthquake and caused our Earth to adjust in that way. Whenever you see the CME activity uptick, you also see earthquake uptick, and the volcanoes usually go right along with it. On April 2nd to 11th, Cyclone hit Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It was Cyclone Mala, M-A-I-L-A. It caused 25-plus death, significant property damage and infrastructure damage. There was an earthquake in Afghanistan on April 3rd, 5.8, 12 people lost their life to that event,

six injuries, local damage. They tend to build in those pancake buildings, so when they get earthquakes, they just lose a lot of floors, and that can be a lot of what happens there. In May of 2026, they had massive flooding in the U.S. specifically, the Great Lakes area. So we're talking to Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin. Lots of rains caused that snow to melt really, really fast. There was also an EF1 tornado that came through Ohio on the 4th. So all of those storms were bringing some major damage while all the rivers were up.

I love the river. Tippy canoe. Oh, that's one of the rivers that was over. I remember that from living up there, Tippy Canoe River. So that's a fun one. On the 8th to the 20th, we had another cyclone out in West Pacific. It was impacting China, but before it did that, it hit a lot of the islands out there, including, say, Pan and Tinian.

severe winds, power outages, property damage, like they're in there full on, you know, Cyclone is just a hurricane backwards that impacts the other hemisphere. So when we're not getting them, somebody else is, we're just flip-flop. New Zealand was hit by Cyclone Vianu. Gosh, they can even think of some easier words. V-A-I-A-N-U. I have no idea how to say that. damaging winds, heavy rain, localized disruptions.

They tend to ping pong down there between New Zealand and Australia. On the 17th of 2026, the Upper Midwest got hit again by tornadoes, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois. This is what I was talking about in the opener. Significant outbreaks. There was an EF3 involved in that outbreak. Widespread home infrastructure damage. Earthquake hit Japan on 420, 7.4. So it was a big one.

They were really concerned about tsunamis. And in fact, they did have a tsunami, just not as major of an impact as we saw when Fukushima was hit. Wildfires have broken out in China, so they are also dealing with kind of less rain over there. Again, it's the extreme. So you're getting extreme drought areas, extreme rain. areas. So some of it's flooding and some of it's just burning. This is 26,000 hectares, so that's about 64,000 acres. Affected about 11,415 people in that burned area. And then we come into the 22nd of April. We had those earthquakes over in Nevada that I talked about in the opener. It is

in the Silver Springs area, which is near Area 51, which can be associated with. Oh, are they testing nuclear weapons or something of that nature? But it is a highly seismic area anyway. So I'm not sure, you know, if it's natural or man-made, but we do have a lot of activity and swarming going on over there right now. I actually sell insurance in that area, and I cannot rate earthquake insurance over there right now. So too late.

You have to wait for the moratorium to get released. April 22nd in 2006, they had early. May wildfires in Japan, one of the largest wildfires in Japan in decades. It burned 1,633 plus hectares. That's about 4,000 acres. And when you're talking the size of the Japanese island, it's a big, big fire for them. 3,200 people were evacuated, a significant property, and then the air quality issues that come with it. There's a winter storm that hit Russia on the 27th of April, was a late season snowstorm. Three people actually lost their life in that incident.

About 76,000 went down without power. And then the Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupted, big eruption. Fuego goes off kind of regularly. So that's one that's not really a big surprise. And then we have the ongoing drought in the south, mid and central United States. So I do encourage you to go over and check out that Glenn Beck episode that he's doing on the Hoover. He's doing a bang-up job of bringing that info.

Kind of stuck it back on my radar too because we just had so many serious events going on. It seems like we're always bouncing from, you know, one incident to the other. All right, as far as earthquake activity goes, so let's back up to February. February, we had 17,000 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. March uptick to 19,925. So we had been seeing a decrease before February, and now we're on that uptick. This month or last month in April, we saw 20,994 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. We had a magnitude 9 in there, a magnitude 8, a magnitude 7.

So those are some serious, serious earthquakes going on. As far as volcanic activity goes, we have 41 volcanoes actively erupting on our planet right now, which is, you know, if we make it up to 50 one day, I don't know. I'll do like a free book series giveaway or something. I guess this is crazy. We're 37 showing unrest, 26 showing minor activity for a total of a hundred. 104 on the board, which is really, really nuts. And then one last thing, actually, I'm almost right on time. I'm doing well.

See, I told you my list wasn't that big. So one side note that I have is because I watch all this stuff all the time and read the Bible a lot. And you know that the area of the Middle East wasn't always just like the desert and the Sahara wasn't always desert. there was a time when this was all lush green stuff. They talk about gardens and, you know, you look at it now. You're like, what? And then Jesus was like, oh, well, you're going to go through the desolation of your land if, you know, you don't do these things and then look what it is today.

Well, when we built the infrastructure of the United States, we were in this really, really wet time for the country, which wasn't necessarily normal. We've seen decades where the rain is way less than what we've been blessed with. And while the United States was really being built during the industrial age was a very wet period for our country. And so now you can see that the United States is starting to get drier. Well, the Sahara is starting to get wetter, which is interesting. So just the planetary cycles, right? It's shifted, yeah.

And that's why I wish we'd worry a lot more about, oh, how do we do long-term, like, sustainability of our country? Like, we can do desalination plants and start switching some of these methods and getting, you know, alternative power methods and stuff now instead of going, well, we're going to put a Band-Aid on it, and then we're going to build a million data centers, and we're going to fight you for power so we can run our data centers to monitor you.

You know, I just think there's a lot different focus that we could have as a country to, you know, be planning for the future for what we know we've seen before in this country. What you know will come again on the earth. We can't just pretend like it never changes, right? So that's my shtick for the change in earth news. Yeah. You can't get past the three-minute shorts on YouTube. I mean, not you, but society can't get past three-minute shorts on YouTube. You're going to have a plan for long-term sustainability.

Yeah, those are too long, right? We can't put that much attention to it. It'll kill us. You know, we're more worried about the superstars and the sports stars. But I'm telling you, it's to be a good idea to start thinking about our long-term food survival instead of, But, you know, it's like when back of the day, the Caesar used to take all the food and put it in the store room and then sell it back to them, right?

In times, I mean, that's basically what's happening. All our food is nationalized, so nobody really knows how to create it for themselves anymore. Can you create it on the scale to actually feed yourself, to actually feed your community? I mean, I don't, you know? So, and you can store it. and stuff, but you can only do so much.

So I think there's definitely some different issues we need to be examining and thinking practically, like, let's get some down-to-earthiness instead. But that's just me out here in my little corner. Corner of Texas. Yep, just chilling in a corner. But if you want to see me this year and you don't live in this area, You need to come to Prepper Camp, 2026, get there. It's going to be a ton of fun, guys.

It always is, and I'm just very, very excited for the new venue. Axe throwing. Oh, yeah. You know there's going to be some tourneys going on there. Except I was practicing, and I suck pretty bad. So I broke the axe. Don't stand in front of Sarah. Yeah, I broke it.

I was like, all right, I'm just going all in this time. Right. Full arm, no finesse. Boop! I broke the hatchet. I got to practice. Oops. I know. Target out here.

Oh, my buddy's got one, but, yeah. So I had to buy him a new hatchet because I broke his hatchet. I mean, they had two that night, but, yeah, I'm going to have to do some prediction. So I can chill up to the plate there. But it's going to be a ton of fun regardless. Check out the Change in Earth audio drama. It's going full throttle, new material, great stories. You're going to just be on the edge of your seat this season

because it's going to rock and roll and not let you go. It's pretty intense. And then, as always, check out the books and, you know, support the show if you can. That would be great. But I hope to see you guys all out at PreperCamp and hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for coming, Chin. Appreciate you. You bet.

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