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Yup. And 7/8 not black or white. :)

This is a common question, I'll link the common answer. You may find the additional info helpful.

Another was a mid quit - I should have candled again before lockdown, didn't. The eggs on either side are seemingly developed, but not progressing. Will "interfere" Saturday, but not hopeful.

Don't buy yogurt with saccharine, sucralose, splenda, etc. That's not reason to avoid yogurt, that's a choice to avoid artificial sugars (which aren't necessary anyways). Plain yogurt doesn't contain dyes. Nor does decent yogurt of any variety. Preservatives? Yogurt is itself a...

Waiting on an explanation. Please. Educate us.

x4. A or B. When you start raising meat birds, they will almost certainly do better on A*. The cost difference between A and B, and the meat bird rate of growth on A or B, will determine which of the two is more cost effective for you as part of your management system. Best way to tell would...

They are your birds, you can do whatever you want with them. The fact is, good nutrition is good nutrition, whether its provided by Agribusiness or a well designed polycultural pasture in season. For the vast majority of people, a quality commercial feed is superior nutrition, at much lower...

Camera still messed up - looks like its set to soften or something. Sorry.

Cross posting from my culling thread, but this really belongs here. Walking the electric fence this morning, feels like about 80% humidity, we have storms coming late tonight / early tomorrow, yes I'll be safe thank you for your thoughts. Anyhow, in addition to pulling down branches off the...

Cross posting from my culling thread, but this really belongs here. Walking the electric fence this morning, feels like about 80% humidity, we have storms coming late tonight / early tomorrow, yes I'll be safe thank you for your thoughts. Anyhow, in addition to pulling down branches off the...

In other Homestead news, as I walk the electric fence this morning, I find that something has absconded with two duck eggs and a chicken egg, in differing directions, and something much larger got one of my injured ducks. This should probably be over on the other thread so I will copy it there...

8 of 12 is definitely better than I have been getting. So if I'm going to be really cold-hearted about it, I really wish the one black one that hatched yesterday was the one that failed to thrive, not the yellow one that followed it. Black one will still be put to productive use of course, just...

Lost one overnight, count is back to 8. Going to call it "failure to thrive". Still no activity from the remaining three eggs - one of which pipped two days ago - tiny air hole - and has done seemingly nothing since. Will do an "exploratory" this weekend, see if I can figure anything out...

She does this for dinner rolls. We hadn't considered doing it to make more gluten available for holding together whole wheat with seed breads. Thank you

I make my own pasta. I could no more go gluten free than I could swim across the Atlantic.

^^ there is truth to this. Of course, I like doritos, and I know how bad they are for me... and its HARD to make a nutritionally good bread. My wife makes sourdough. We've had the same starter for two decades plus now, its fair to say she's had some practice. Makes great white bread (or...

Happy to share what little I know. and I sometimes share bread (or excess sourdough starter) with my flock. Rarely, and in moderation. The occasional exception to the general rule isn't going to kill them. Its the persistent bread, scratch, and other low quality dietary substitutions which...

Continuing... Carbs can be stored. Fat can be stored. Both generally as fat. A number of minerals and fat soluable vitamins can be stored against future shortage. You know what can't be stored? Protein. A chicken will use its daily protein intake for repair, for growth (if it is not yet...

Rather than calling out the logical fallacy in the above, I'll illustrate. Bread has limited benefit, and to the extent it displaces other things in the diet, it is a net negative. Imagine if, you will, that you have a pocket full of quarters. That pocket full of quarters represents a full...