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  1. U_Stormcrow

    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    I thought white chocolate was just sugar and fat. Hopefully cocoa butter as that fat, but... If a stick of salted butter is savory, white chocolate is its sweet equivalent. Welcome to the dark side!
  2. U_Stormcrow

    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    None of the turkey eggs were fertile. That leaves one (1) duck to hatch in the next couple days. Which makes the brooder box thing less critical - I have room for one duck in a way I didn't have room for a half dozen turkeys and a duck.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Also, a couple eggs in the incubator, due to hatch in the next couple days. Ducks and Turkeys. Haven't candled, have no clue... Desperately need a place to set the brooder box if they do hatch. Headed out to deal w/ that now.
  4. U_Stormcrow

    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    As with so much else, "the dosage is the poison". Sea salt is good for trace elements - "micronutrients" - its not that it makes the salt "better", its that its providing a source for a lot of things you need only very very tiny amounts of that you may not otherwise be getting from your diet...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    I'm with Royal on this. and if you have a sweet tooth, dark chocolate, cashew, caramel turtles are THE BOMB!
  6. U_Stormcrow

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    I had to read twice to see how you got from musli with yogurt to gin & tonic. Thank you for this, its been a long day.
  7. U_Stormcrow

    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    that's pretty awesome. Eventually, my pasture will be closer to that.
  8. U_Stormcrow

    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    My "more promising" chick rate is probably 2.5x that, but as they age up and come into adult plumage, a lot can go wrong. Two batches back, I had two white throwbacks and an almost solid black - they go to freezer camp this week. New they didn't count. Like four of the others had potential. I...
  9. U_Stormcrow

    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    About 1 in 10 what I want. and I'm culling around 70%, mostly males and a couple hens with clearly undesireds.
  10. U_Stormcrow

    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    If you plant clover, I recommend from experience that you plant several varieties - they will bloom at different times, and prefer slightly different environments. My yellow clover, for instance, only does well where there is some vertical edge - 4x4 posts, fences, trees, large fallen logs...
  11. U_Stormcrow

    Best Weight to Process Dual-Purpose Cockerels

    I throw mine in a cloth bag, then hang the bag from a scale.
  12. U_Stormcrow

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Yes, the hollyhock. Didn't recognize it w/ most of the flowers gone.
  13. U_Stormcrow

    BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6

    Those plants look unnatural. I wonder at the conditions that resulted in selecting that as a species survival mechanism. WELCOME BACK!
  14. U_Stormcrow

    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    I confess error. Apparently, it doesn't depolymerize it as I thought. It dissolves the molecular structure, allowing entrapped air to escape, and creating a goo of polystyrene in limonene. Reduces the volume of polystyrene based on how much air it held. That can be a hundredfold reduction in...
  15. U_Stormcrow

    Favorite All Flock feed?

    Any feed which is consistently available, reliably fresh, meeting the nutritional minimums you consider acceptable for your birds, and at a price you are willing to pay is "best" (for you). I've used, successfully and satisfactorily, many of the feeds mentioned in this thread - including...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    Limonene (found in various citrus fruit peels - the name is a hint) is also effective at safely reducing styrofoam to other, more useful, less environmentally concerning Carbon and Hydrogen compounds. Same with Acetone (commonly, nail polish remover), but Acetone has its own issues. [EDIT - I'm...
  17. U_Stormcrow

    I'm back [and will try to return to the prior pace of Commenting]

    That's the one. and happy to share, that's what BYC is for.
  18. U_Stormcrow

    I'm back [and will try to return to the prior pace of Commenting]

    .3 Met and .7 Lys are the old NRC recommended minimums (jump to p5) for adult laying production hens based on a 100g/day diet. If you want to read the whole of the old paper, India maintains a copy here (slow download). Based on my readings, and my flock's purpose, my own targets are about 15%...
  19. U_Stormcrow

    Soy Feed chick starter

    and yes, I'd also like to see the guaranteed nutrition label to see where the final numbers end up - but they don't seem to publish them. All I can say with confidence is that they' are on the right track/have made a good start at a decent feed.
  20. U_Stormcrow

    Soy Feed chick starter

    Exactly so - someone has been doing their readings. Peas, as a pulse, tend to be better Met sources than grains. Not great, but better. That's why the recipe was built around them as a "soy substitute". Then Fishmeal and Linseed meal were both added to increase total crude protein and bias...
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