Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[blueberrychickens]

x2!!!

 

[ChirpyChick]

... the egg.... beneath her......

hilarious

 

[Nambroth]

Oh goodness, I love D'uccles and D'anvers!! If I wasn't so scared of hawk predation, I'd have some. Yours are beautiful!!

We are having rather unusual snowstorms right now, so I can't get any Derp photos. She's been mostly hanging in the coop with the others as it snows and snows and snows. Augh!

 

[Fluffballs]

hilarious

x2!

 

[drumstick diva]

Maybe Damien has some vision impairment causing her to miss bugs and food she pecks out.

 

[pdx2phx]

Maybe Damien has some vision impairment causing her to miss bugs and food she pecks out.

Hi all!

I sorta didn't realize I did a pun when I posted the bit about Damien and eggs being 'beneath her'

whoops! Glad you found it funny!! lol She is pretty entertaining!

I wonder about her vision too, although she certainly is good at scooting away from me when I try to catch her, and I see her picking up scratch fine. Maybe she just gets too excited by the prospect of live food? It's almost like she gets overwhelmed and so freezes....I dunno. She'll stand at my feet looking up and squeal repeatedly like she wants something, or wants attention,but then runs away erratically with her flop-floppy feathered feet

abnormal Chicken psychology!

 

[NovaAman]

OMG! What is she? That patten is AWESOME! I think she's pretty.

 

[Eowyn2]

Honey is antiseptic. Does not promote bacteria growth. That's why it dosen't have to be refridgerated.
In fact, the Egyptians used it in the mummification process. Can also be used to dress wounds.
Honey would be preferred over sugar by far.

This is partially true.

The reason that honey is not recommended in human infants under 1 year of age (the only part I can speak to as I'm a human doc not an animal doc) is that unpasteurized honey can contain spores of the bacteria that causes botulism. Spores are one of the ways that certain bacteria reproduce. Think of them like bacteria eggs, or bacteria pod people - they're in stasis until they find a livable environment. They are *extremely* difficult to kill, even with most modern methods. Once that honey is eaten by a baby under 1 year of age, the spores realize that they're in a less hostile environment, and they develop into the botulism-causing bacteria. Those bacteria produce a toxin that causes paralysis.

Now, older people have enough acid in their stomachs and a good enough immune system that botulism spores can't develop, and there's no problem.

There's nothing magical about honey that makes it antibacterial. It's merely because the sugars in honey are so highly concentrated that any bacteria or mold organisms that comes in contact with it get the juices sucked out of them by the high sugar concentration. And it doesn't take much to throw this balance off - just a few percentage point difference in the sugar concentration, and you have a mold paradise. (You could do this with any sugar or salt solution - just get the concentration high enough, and mold/bacteria can't survive or grow. Jams and jellies are a good example of this - it's a way of preserving fruit by packing enough sugar into it that bacteria and mold can't spoil it.)

So, for example, putting honey into another liquid doesn't make that liquid antibacterial - you've just diluted the sugar content and destroyed the antibacterial property of honey.

Does that make sense?

 

[EdenCamp]

Gotcha Doc. That's good to know. If the honey were MW'd tho, diluted with other or no, that would destroy any bacteria held in retarded culture state - yes?
Cooled and used then would be better than cane sugar or essentially the same? I've always thought was easier digested but am I mistaken in mah thinkin?

 

[Chicken Wisper]

I Love the shirt!!​