Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Canadian Wind]

Sorry to hear this Perris. May she look down from above on her friends and family.

 

[Canadian Wind]

The dangers of excessive seed oil consuption has made the popular press recently. A few newspapers have run with the recent research story.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ower-corn-colon-cancer-symptoms-b2665511.html

I was shopping in the local supermarket today and out of curiosity checked quite a number of products to see what they contained.
Smoked mackerel with sunflower oil as second ingredient.
Nan bread with both rapeseed oil and sunflower oil in it.
Every pre made sauce I picked up had one or more seed oils in them.
Every ready meal I checked had sunflower oil in it.
I even found a couple of fruit deserts with sunflower oil in them.
It became a challenge to find anything except "fresh" produce that didn't have at least one seed oil as a major ingredient.
It's not just that they are present in these products, it's they are present in suprisingly high amounts.
Many people cook with seed oils so the overall level of consumption in the average modern diet adds up to lots!

I sigh in frustration each time I read 'food' labels.

The problem doesn't lie in most of these oils themselves but how they are extracted. (sorry if that's in the article I haven't had time to read it yet)

Sunflower oil, cold-pressed, is usually fine. But the process used with heat and chemicals is what makes it dangerous.

If I could afford it, I would only use extra-virgin cold-pressed olive oil, but getting the REAL stuff (so many fakes out there!) is difficult if you don't know what to look for.

Chicken Tax, even though Shad started it (and I wanted to show off these fluffs anyhow):

Day old OEGB which hatched three days ago!

 

[Perris]

animal fats and dairy fats are both better than vegetable oils from the perspective of omega 3 : omega 6 ratios.

If I could afford it

getting the REAL stuff (so many fakes out there!

sometimes a traditional substance is cheaper and less amenable to adulteration than its modern alternative. For example, when Idris first got ill and wasn't eating much, I offered her a little soft butter as an easy to eat, energy dense food. I then realised that, as a fat that is solid at room temp, but dissolves at body temperature, and can serve as a lubricant, butter is cheaper and more widely available than the solidified coconut oil commonly recommended for crop problems. So I took the opportunity for a quick crop massage, and it worked beautifully.

 

[Canadian Wind]

animal fats and dairy fats are both better than vegetable oils from the perspective of omega 3 : omega 6 ratios.



sometimes a traditional substance is cheaper and less amenable to adulteration than its modern alternative. For example, when Idris first got ill and wasn't eating much, I offered her a little soft butter as an easy to eat, energy dense food. I then realised that, as a fat that is solid at room temp, but dissolves at body temperature, and can serve as a lubricant, butter is cheaper and more widely available than the solidified coconut oil commonly recommended for crop problems. So I took the opportunity for a quick crop massage, and it worked beautifully.

I use butter like it's going out of style!!! Also rendered duck fat (amazing to roast potatoes in!).

I'll have to remember this if any crop problems pop up.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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Peaceful journey, Miss Idris.

 

[BDutch]

Idris passed away quietly yesterday evening. I started an autopsy but the cause was quick to reveal itself: egg yolk peritonitis. What I saw immediately on opening her belly fitted the MSD entry perfectly, even down to the "characterized by fibrin or caseous albumen-like material with a cooked appearance among the abdominal viscera" as the professional version of what I would describe as a gloopy white and transparent mess behind a rubbery soft cooked yolk. There was a lot of liquid but I didn't investigate further, as I cannot confidently differentiate cause and effect when it comes to fluid leaking from the liver.

She only lived a year and 4 months, but I think she enjoyed almost all of that time. I shall miss her a lot, and am thankful she lives on in her daughters Aberglasny, Xmoor and Zoar.
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Sorry Idris life was so short. At leat she had a great chicken-life as long as it lasted.

Bye bye Idris. Lots of beautiful memories Perris!

 

[BDutch]

If I could afford it, I would only use extra-virgin cold-pressed olive oil, but getting the REAL stuff (so many fakes out there!) is difficult if you don't know what to look for.

Isn’t it fine if the label says virgin or first cold pressed? I thought refined is always with heat to get the max amount of oils out.

The problem doesn't lie in most of these oils themselves but how they are extracted.

So true. The cold pressed oils (unrefined) should taste like the seeds they are extracted from. The best sunflower oils are brown and have the taste of sunflowers. It gets expensive too, but less expensive than virgin cold pressed olive oil.