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    Osteoporosis

    Also, the Japanese channel had a segment of the value of the "sumo squat" for strengthening the core and lower body. A quick netsearch found info on some of the benefits for non-sumo wrestlers and on how to do it. Except the Japanese channel had people lifting their feet (up to about knee high)...
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    Osteoporosis

    I have trouble with applications of nutritional profiles like this chart since seeing where some of them get their numbers. But this one may be worth some thought. Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation but I know I have a bone problem and how much I like any given veggie (fruit and...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    You might use toggles instead of washers - to fit under the rim better and spread the load further along the rim. My grandpa would make an eye in the end of a rope by separating the each ply of the end and the opening up the twists further down the rope enough to work each ply into the opened...
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    Fermented feed for chickens

    Most fish will die of suffocation in open jars too if the water isn't aerated. Siamese fighting fish are notable exceptions. They need oxygen in the water too but not nearly as much as most fish. Their native environment is small, stagnant pools. By "open jar" - think fish bowl, fish tank...
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    Needing Feeding Advice

    There is something to the Henhouse Reserve with crumbles having too much calcium to be best for non layers like your pullets. Maybe that one pullet was extra sensitive to the extra calcium or maybe it was something else. In your shoes, I would give them two feeders. One with the Henhouse...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    This is here so I can find it later for my own exploring. Link to this list of references that include things like nonessential amino acids being limiting factors in some situations. And info about the roles and interactions of some of the amino acids.
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    Equipping the coop and run

    In the combined coop/run, all deep bedded. Many options work well. I put the feed pan (stainless steel dog dish) in a weighted pail (sand filling it about half way, dog dish setting on the sand or hanging from the rim depending on which pail and which dog dish) to elevate it to a little less...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Hawaii and California are outliers (35 and 42 cents per kilowatt hour). All the rest make an almost even curve up from 11 cents to 30 cents. That is averages of each state. Some states have the same price across that state, others vary by 25% within that state. Numbers as of autumn of 2025. And...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    Interesting... Why don't they always choose wisely
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    Link to this published article Can the Chick Balance Its Ration? E. M. F U N K University of Missouri, Columbia The picture is the conclusions of the above study. I couldn't get it to copy/paste. I'll add different ones later Edit to add a paper that talks about several studies, with...
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    I thought so too until I saw multiple studies besides the one referenced in the first post of this thread. It isn't as easy as just setting out a few containers of food. Or, even many containers, necessarily, But it isn't as nearly as far fetched as I thought for a long time.
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    No wonder chickens fed cafeteria style select each element in about the same proportion as it is in the old mixed feeds

    My key takeaway is since that is how they formulated the modern practice of pelletized feed before they did all that measuring and testing it may also work for an entirely different set of components. Provided the elements are all available in a way that can be balanced, of course. And eaten, of...
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    Picture?
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    Questions about fermented feed

    Trying to mixing our own complete feed is not cost effective or healthier for the vast majority of us. If "mixing our own" also includes appropriate foraging then it very likely is healthier. So, enough time in enough space with enough biome diversity on fertile enough soil, and so on. It might...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    So, I think I will use any oil that is iffy on the hoe and rake handles.
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