PROBIOTICS for you and your chickens

[Miss Lydia]

Hey ernie, your repeating yourself...

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Amhy,
If it is the lactose that your daughter has issues with, she maybe able to ingest the kefir as the culture eats lactose to grow.
Ginny

Unfortunately, it's not a lactose intolerance, it's a milk protein allergy. She can't ingest anything that contains milk proteins. She seems to be growing out of it gradually, thank goodness!! There was a time where she would go into anaphylactic shock if she ingested milk products, and now she just gets a rash on her where the milk (yogurt, chocolate, anything containing milk) touches her skin.

Water kefir will work for her and actually I had someone PM me for a trade on Kombucha for water kefir, so it's perfect!! Although, I'd still love some milk kefir, so if anyone wants to trade either a Kombucha scoby or water kefir grains in the next few weeks, please let me know!! I hope that I will have plenty soon!!

sorry to hear that she is so allergic to milk proteins.. That must really stink. Milk is in everything! Do people with milk allergies? If so, I hope she does,
Ginny

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Maybe it is the ADHD again!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thats what I was thinking

 

[emarble]

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Maybe it is the ADHD again!!

OK! Ohhhh Yea I was just checkin to see if you alll were paying attention! Yea thats it!! Or maybe it is vast amounts of snow and cold here in the Midwest or Ohhh Look Chicken

! I just saw the tshirt the other day again with the adhd thing and I think it is so funny and cute and I have a friend with severe ADHD and she is just like that by the way we will be talking and bam its to another subject!

Good Morning All

Ernie

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe thats what I have I do the same thing, drives my dh crazy!!

 

[Amyh]

We think she will outgrow it. Thank goodness.

It seemed like a real hassle at first, because you're right, milk is in EVERYTHING!! I was trying to read labels on everything and figure out what I could feed her. After a while, I stopped reading labels and just started to make everything from scratch. I try to buy only whole foods and then make anything we might want. I think her allergy was God's way of showing me the light. The processed foods most families are eating are full of so many preservatives and nasties that there is no way my children should be eating it anyway!! I am thankful for everything we have gone through because we are eating so much more healthfully.

I started with a large garden, then the chickens, now our probiotics and I'm putting in fruit trees and such this summer. I bake, can, cook and do everything I can to make sure my children are healthy. I am in love with this lifestyle and can't wait until the children are a bit older and can pitch in and we can really make this a mini farm.

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Amy,

I just checked out your website. Cool stuff. I sew too, but don't have a lot of time. I was just thinking that maybe you could also market hen saddles (aprons) They are easy to sew, but so many people don't do it any more. Any way, just a thought.......
I kept telling people that I don't have a farm. But the large garden, 3 horses and 9 chickens (a dog and 2 cats), I guess to many, it is a mini farm. I hope someday you can realize your dream!
Ginny

 

[emarble]

Well My first try at shipping Kefir grains made it there in record time and By tomorrow I should know whether or not they made it alive or not and hopefully the second batch will be there by tomorrow and by friday I'll know if they are OK! I think I have this shipping thing down so!

Good Night My Probiotic buddies

Ernie

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great to hear Ernie, looking forward to mine

nighty nighty