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

[Perris]

Tax for the last: Gwynedd leading a small foraging party through the bluebells this morning

 

[BDutch]

I meant why the focus on eggs. Everything I have read is that pretty much everything is contaminated. Water, milk, meat, fish, vegetables etc.
So I am questioning why they focus on backyard chicken eggs and not any other food product.
And I am deeply skeptical that commercial eggs are better because the chickens don’t touch soil. Do they filter the water for the commercial egg layers? I doubt it!
So either it is everywhere, in which case backyard eggs are likely no worse than anything else.

The same discussion is going around here on social media and with friends and family. Yes. PFAS and plastic particles are in almost everything we eat, drink, smear on our body and inhale.

Or it is only in certain places (like around factories that contaminate).
I have no idea but suspect everywhere is the truth.

Not only through air around factories. Also where a house or a barn was on fire, where people used free contaminated soil from recycling. And at the borders of-stream waters that passed polluting factories like laundry factories .

The Netherlands is very densely populated with lots of chemical factories , poison using agricultural and flower industries, and has a lot of diverse pollution from the past.
So the contamination here is worse than in lots of other countries.

 

[BDutch]

Have to catch up with reading/responding later.

@RoyalChick Im getting older too. A year from now Im getting my government pension and I started to work less hours already. But now I have to prepare for an appointment.

And I like to thank you for the tax @Perris. I didn’t set that rule on my thread. But I enjoy chicken photos in natural settings a lot.

 

[BDutch]

This morning I got the PFAS test results I asked for. Not just the indication they send previously. Had to ask twice.

The test values:
PFOS: 1.97 µg/kg
PFOA: 0.21 µg/kg
PFHxS: 0.17 µg/kg
PFNA: 0.27 µg/kg

Total for the 4: 2.62 µg/kg

PFOS is too high but still well below the EU standard for dangerous.

In the Dutch/French notation
PFOS: 1,97 µg/kg
PFOA: 0,21 µg/kg
PFHxS: 0,17 µg/kg
PFNA: 0,27 µg/kg

EU: PFOS is safe under 1 µg/kg. Above 5 µg/kg are dangerous levels.

 

[Perris]

so all the red and dodgy units of measurement in their original 'results' was unjustified?

 

[RoyalChick]

so all the red and dodgy units of measurement in their original 'results' was unjustified?

Yes this. I am confused.

 

[Skyeknight]

This morning I got the PFAS test results I asked for. Not just the indication they send previously. Had to ask twice.

The test values:
PFOS: 1.97 µg/kg
PFOA: 0.21 µg/kg
PFHxS: 0.17 µg/kg
PFNA: 0.27 µg/kg

Total for the 4: 2.62 µg/kg

PFOS is too high but still well below the EU standard for dangerous.

In the Dutch/French notation
PFOS: 1,97 µg/kg
PFOA: 0,21 µg/kg
PFHxS: 0,17 µg/kg
PFNA: 0,27 µg/kg

EU: PFOS is safe under 1 µg/kg. Above 5 µg/kg are dangerous levels.

That is so frustrating that you had to ask multiple times for the results on your own eggs that you paid for. Like the others have mentioned why the red if it's not considered dangerous? Did they explain that or are the measurements that they base it on on their site?

 

[BDutch]

so all the red and dodgy units of measurement in their original 'results' was unjustified?

I think orange was the right color. Not safe. But not dangerous either (according to EU levels).

I don’t understand why the lab was hesitating to share the results other than trying to tempt people to buy an expensive and better test.

 

[Perris]

further to that, you might find this interesting
https://www.theguardian.com/society...-food-sensitivity-issues-are-they-trustworthy
caveat emptor

 

[Molpet]

further to that, you might find this interesting
https://www.theguardian.com/society...-food-sensitivity-issues-are-they-trustworthy
caveat emptor

2012 my chiropractor recommended a food intolerance test, which was covered by my ins. I thought it was probably a bunch of nonsense and they were just try to make money.
I did it anyway to prove them wrong. They took 3 vials of blood. It came back with 27 things I was sensitive to. Some were things I rarely ate and some were things I ate everyday. As I ate up or froze the items I had in stock, I didn't buy anymore.
A week without wheat, first thing I ran out of, I quit waking up in the middle of the night with my joints aching. months Later I tried a cracker ang woke up hurting. A year later I woke up hurting and checked the food I ate the day before. A soup that didn't have wheat before now has wheat.
When I eat cows milk products I get very congested sinus. Goat or sheep is fine.
Some of the remaining 25 don't bother me, like pepper and beans. Store eggs bother me, but mine or local don't bother me.
Some I haven't tried. The wheat issue makes me wonder if I really want to find out lol

So while most didn't seem to make a difference, it was very worthwhile for the 2 that makes a big difference.