Chicken Feed Recipes, Articles and Systems

[Lauravonsmurf]

I had access to expired saltine-crackers from the food pantry but declined to give them to the chickens because of the salt content.

I have to wonder if the word "cracker" had different assumptions tied to it then than now? I have a vague memory of something I watched or read about the history of crackers that leads me to *think* that historically "cracker" was something more like a ship's biscuit than a saltine or a Ritz.

So there's that issue when looking at historic recipes too -- the words might not mean what they mean now.

Yes word meanings change.

 

[EIEIO Funny Farm]

From The Call Of The Hens Or The Science Of Selecting And Breeding Poultry For Egg Production, by Walter Hogan, 1913, 1914, 1916

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Great info! Thanks for posting.