Things you wish you could say

[KayisforKale]

Even if mine liked shrimp, I wouldn’t pay that price to feed it to them

I mean, I would not go out of my to do it either, but we sometimes have left-over shrimp...

 

[KayisforKale]

Damn. I wish I had known all of this before I ate my last shrimp ring. (Those things are as addicting as crack. They should come with a warning label. )

Not all shells are the same.

We are used to thinking of oyster shells as a good calcium source for chickens. But not all shells are the same as oyster shells.

Shrimp shells have a fair bit of protein (at least as compared with oyster shells.) They have about as much protein as they do calcium (I find numbers that are slightly variable, but they are definitely not just calcium.)

I think bones are closer to oyster shells in what they contain, and crab shells may be more like shrimp shells.

For the various shells I have looked up, all of them can be a reasonable source of calcium, but the chickens might have to eat more of some kinds than others to get enough calcium, and some of the shells (like shrimp) can include enough protein that it might make a difference in the diet. The calcium content is high enough that shrimp shells could never be the only protein in a chicken's diet, but it can certainly add a little bit.


I second that. Any shrimp are for ME. But since I don't want to eat the shells, I have no problem giving them to chickens

 

[Brooks_]

left-over shrimp

 

[azurbanclucker]

maybe she means the tails

 

[Brooks_]

maybe she means the tails

Maybe

 

[KayisforKale]

maybe she means the tails

My motto when shopping is "Go Big or Go Home". And sometimes that motto also goes toward cooking. The family will say just 2 or 3 lbs, but I buy 7+ lbs, and then there is no room in the freezer, so I cook it all. Then everyone gets sick of eating it.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The badges help obviously

 

[NatJ]

One problem is that if you are new you don’t know whose responses are reliable. The badges help obviously.

I'm not sure the badges would help a new member very much.

To me, the one for "Premium Feather Member" is more obvious than the ones for "BYC Friend" (and Spirit and Educator and so forth).

But anyone can be a Premium Feather Member just by paying for it, so it is not at all a good indicator of knowledge (I see plenty of new members who have it within a few days of joining, at a point when they themselves may still be learning the very basics.)

And for anyone who paid for a PFM, they may not realize that the other badges have any real significance.

(I thought of this beause the current page of this thread has a good selection of PFM and other badges, and some catch my eyes more than others.)

 

[nuthatched]

That sounds wrong on so many levels.



(Just waiting for the cheesy joke people to kick me.)

Only levels 1 through 20....19....18....17...16...

 

[tripletfeb]

I'm floored.