new research debunks trad views on nutrition

[NagemTX]

I've been useing honey now instead of the refind sugars. I keep enough on hand in can have a past or wet granulated honey.

 

[Perris]

a past or wet granulated honey

is this some auto-complete mangling of clear or set honey? (which are the only 2 kind I'm familiar with)

 

[NagemTX]

The honey I get is from a friend's hives. I can get it with comb if I want. When honey gets old it crystallizes.

 

[NatJ]

a past or wet granulated honey.

Did you mean "paste"?

Or do you mean it's old enough ("past") that is has become "wet granulated"?

 

[Perris]

and if so, what does 'wet granulated' mean? (I know honey crystalizes over time; it's just these terms you're using @NagemTX are new to me.)

 

[Cgor54]

I thought all those things were already common knowledge at this point.

I'm sure almost everyone here would agree that fresh whole foods are better overall than processed feeds, but there are two major issues with feeding whole grains to BYC

1) A lot of people just make up their own feed recipe, which is often lacking in crucial nutrients. And since most chickens are confined to a relatively small area they have no way to make up for those deficiencies.

and 2) because a most chicken keepers tend to use large hopper type feeders it enables the chickens to pick and choose endlessly from what is offered, which also results in a deficient diet.

"I thought all those things were already common knowledge at this point."
Probably common knowledge for people interested in health of themselves and of their chickens. Truth is, unfortunately, a lot of people still believe what is being "fed" to them by the companies making the highly processed foods, pretty grocery store and worthless veggies and fruits, GMO's, so called health foods and vitamins AND chicken feed. They don't question and still believe that people who want a healthy, chemical-free and non-manipulated diet are fringe fanatics.
I think these attitudes are changing, but there's still a long way to go.

 

[NagemTX]

Did you mean "paste"?

Or do you mean it's old enough ("past") that is has become "wet granulated"?

I ment paste like. Wet granulated is just that crystal granules that still have some liquid honey with them. I've gotten it to almost a brown sugar consistency before.

 

[NagemTX]

and if so, what does 'wet granulated' mean? (I know honey crystalizes over time; it's just these terms you're using @NagemTX are new to me.)

They are descriptions of its physical state.

 

[Sally PB]

Honey will crystalize when it gets cold. Or old enough; I've never had an old enough to crystalize, but it will crystalize in my basement in the winter.

If you've purchased "pure honey" at a store, kept it somewhere around 50°F and it did NOT crystalize, you probably did not buy "pure" honey. By LAW(!), honey can be cut with up to 10% something else -- usually HFCS -- and still be labeled as "pure honey."

I find that disturbing and disgusting. I bought a bottle at Costco that didn't crystalize next to the jug of honey from a beekeeper friend that did.

 

[NagemTX]

Honey will crystalize when it gets cold. Or old enough; I've never had an old enough to crystalize, but it will crystalize in my basement in the winter.

If you've purchased "pure honey" at a store, kept it somewhere around 50°F and it did NOT crystalize, you probably did not buy "pure" honey. By LAW(!), honey can be cut with up to 10% something else -- usually HFCS -- and still be labeled as "pure honey."

I find that disturbing and disgusting. I bought a bottle at Costco that didn't crystalize next to the jug of honey from a beekeeper friend that did.

Yeah all my honey comes from locals. So I don't have to worry about that! We have a honey production fair here too.