Protecting Hens from Japan Fallout!

[maizey]

Just read that eggs are a good source of iodine...us BYCers should be good. Also, strawberries, yogurt and watercress..as is of course kelp. I have all of that in my fridge now, and the eggs and water cress I'm actually chewing as I type. ( tuna salad on crackers with waterecress). Tasty too

 

[classicsredone]

Kids are are actually at the most risk, with those over 40 being at a very low risk of thyroid issues. Making sure you get enough iodine is a good thing to do anyways. Swansons Vitamins carries kelp pills at a low price if you're interested. For those of us that don't eat refined salt, it is important to get kelp in a multivitamin, supplement, or in food such as sushi. I'm not too worried at this point. We have family in the first responder/disaster business, and we haven't heard any concerns yet. It doesn't hurt to be prepared for emergencies, though. We can all use this as an example of why we need to prepare for things like floods, earth quakes, and tornadoes.

 

[Lurken Turken]

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This just maybe the funniest visual I have ever had....chickens in tinfoil hats, covred in that zinc stuff!!

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Agreed... There are people in the US "closer" to Japan than I (I live on the eastern side of Washington), but even if it were to "reach US soil"...the radiation would have to travel a minimum distance of 4500 miles (if it shot over in a straight line), but more like 6000 miles as it meanders through the wind streams. If "we" saw any radiation increase, it would be minimal at best. That info, of course, ignores HI which is a little closer.

It does make me giggle though when the news here reports that every store in town has sold out of Potassium Iodide/Iodine...by itself, it ain't gonna save your hiney from radiation anyway.

Our town is one of them! I couldn't believe the signs in all the stores saying they were sold out. I'm sorry but this whole thing is just the silliest thing I've heard in a long time. It seems to me like people just need something to get worked up about all the time. Here in Oregon people are freaking out about the full moon followed by the big earthquake that is going to hit next week. The sad thing is most of them are 100% serious. A lady today asked me if my chickens and cats were acting strange yet. I wanted to reply not any stranger than you are but I minded my manners

 

[classicsredone]

Our town is one of them! I couldn't believe the signs in all the stores saying they were sold out. I'm sorry but this whole thing is just the silliest thing I've heard in a long time. It seems to me like people just need something to get worked up about all the time. Here in Oregon people are freaking out about the full moon followed by the big earthquake that is going to hit next week. The sad thing is most of them are 100% serious. A lady today asked me if my chickens and cats were acting strange yet. I wanted to reply not any stranger than you are but I minded my manners

ZOMG! People can be so strange. When I worked with the public, I SWEAR all the crazies would come out during a full moon. We actually could track it statistically. Having some concern is normal, but thinking that a full moon around the time of a big earth quake is going to cause another one halfway across the world...wow.​

 

[WhySayWhat]

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Agreed... There are people in the US "closer" to Japan than I (I live on the eastern side of Washington), but even if it were to "reach US soil"...the radiation would have to travel a minimum distance of 4500 miles (if it shot over in a straight line), but more like 6000 miles as it meanders through the wind streams. If "we" saw any radiation increase, it would be minimal at best. That info, of course, ignores HI which is a little closer.

It does make me giggle though when the news here reports that every store in town has sold out of Potassium Iodide/Iodine...by itself, it ain't gonna save your hiney from radiation anyway.

Our town is one of them! I couldn't believe the signs in all the stores saying they were sold out. I'm sorry but this whole thing is just the silliest thing I've heard in a long time. It seems to me like people just need something to get worked up about all the time. Here in Oregon people are freaking out about the full moon followed by the big earthquake that is going to hit next week. The sad thing is most of them are 100% serious. A lady today asked me if my chickens and cats were acting strange yet. I wanted to reply not any stranger than you are but I minded my manners

My town is the same way (that's what I meant anyway)...but I'm a Central OR girl and always will be... I think the nut balls running around panicing and packing away enough iodine to actually harm them are quite funny! I grew up knowing fully that I lived at the base of not one, but an entire string of active volcanoes! The Cascade mountain range is a very active volcanic range, but you just don't see people panicking over it.

As for the "manner minding"...people like that need to be put in their place, lol. I have no issues putting them there myself.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Our town is one of them! I couldn't believe the signs in all the stores saying they were sold out. I'm sorry but this whole thing is just the silliest thing I've heard in a long time. It seems to me like people just need something to get worked up about all the time. Here in Oregon people are freaking out about the full moon followed by the big earthquake that is going to hit next week. The sad thing is most of them are 100% serious. A lady today asked me if my chickens and cats were acting strange yet. I wanted to reply not any stranger than you are but I minded my manners

My town is the same way (that's what I meant anyway)...but I'm a Central OR girl and always will be... I think the nut balls running around panicing and packing away enough iodine to actually harm them are quite funny! I grew up knowing fully that I lived at the base of not one, but an entire string of active volcanoes! The Cascade mountain range is a very active volcanic range, but you just don't see people panicking over it.

As for the "manner minding"...people like that need to be put in their place, lol. I have no issues putting them there myself.

Lol isn't that the truth...I live in the valley so volcanoes one side, the ocean on the other and lots of CA transplants here in the middle

(me included) And I usually don't have any problem telling people either, but she was cutting my hair at the time so I took the safe route

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

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Agreed... There are people in the US "closer" to Japan than I (I live on the eastern side of Washington), but even if it were to "reach US soil"...the radiation would have to travel a minimum distance of 4500 miles (if it shot over in a straight line), but more like 6000 miles as it meanders through the wind streams. If "we" saw any radiation increase, it would be minimal at best. That info, of course, ignores HI which is a little closer.

It does make me giggle though when the news here reports that every store in town has sold out of Potassium Iodide/Iodine...by itself, it ain't gonna save your hiney from radiation anyway.

Our town is one of them! I couldn't believe the signs in all the stores saying they were sold out. I'm sorry but this whole thing is just the silliest thing I've heard in a long time. It seems to me like people just need something to get worked up about all the time. Here in Oregon people are freaking out about the full moon followed by the big earthquake that is going to hit next week. The sad thing is most of them are 100% serious. A lady today asked me if my chickens and cats were acting strange yet. I wanted to reply not any stranger than you are but I minded my manners

You are better at minding your manners than I am!!!!!!!

 

[BlackBart]

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Hey I worked in Tourism. Heard some pretty weird and stupid stuff.
Kind of makes you wonder how they got a driver's license and even scarier some of them have children.

 

[onafixedincome]

While it can be quite amusing to watch people running around like you-know-what, it's also rather sad.

They are truly scared by something they do not understand, cannot see, and cannot comprehend. The media in many cases is *NOT* helping with leader sentences like 'Thyroid, for sure...'.

I feel somewhat like "I must be stupid" when I'm going about my usual life without fretting about my iodine levels, a dosimeter, and so forth, but I was far more concerned about the tsunami's effect on my friends who are on the coast than I am about any possible radiation.

It is almost certain that we will see more damage from overdoses of iodine than we will from radiation, and why?

Because no one has educated anyone on preparedness for this kind of problem! Earthquakes, well, we ignore preparedness for those with flair and elan on a regular basis, but nobody told us how to ignore being prepared for radiation issues. Our ignorance is now showing as low-class, even tacky, panic behavior.

(Yes, that paragraph was meant as a joke. Kinda.)

I would LOVE to see a yard full of foil-wrapped, zinc-ointment-wearing chickens with matching owner...now THAT's style!

(Right up to when the sun comes out, when you'd be wishing you'd uses teriyaki instead of zinc...)