Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Weights are one measurement
Volume is another.

Prexactly.

 

[Sally PB]

Prexactly.

Oh, I LOVE this word! May I borrow it?

 

[MrsNorthie]

Reading the A&E threads and reading elsewhere there are other peoples chickens who are producing diarrhea when moulting.

Moulting seems to be way more traumatic that I would have ever guessed. My older girls are in varying stages of moulting and they do not want to leave the coop. The are eating and drinking normally, but if it weren't for the room service, they probably would not be eating as much.

 

[Shadrach]

Three hours this afternoon. Dry and cold.
I took them some porridge. Henry and Dig liked it right down to the dates. Fret didn't like it at all and Mow ate some but wasn't keen. Carbon didn't seem qhite sure either way.
It's not the solution I'm looking for.

The balance issues Carbon was having seem to have been rectified. I watched her do some sudden turns and her balance was okay and she can reach her preen gland now with tipping forward. I have absolutely no idea what that's all about. Here she is looking good but she has a mass of growing feathers under what one can see in the picture.

Henry is much the same. Lots of feather growth under the surface so neither of them have finished moulting. They are all getting above 16% protein, maybe as much as 20% on average when the meat and fish are included.

This is how juveniles in Catalonia got taken by predators. Dig is too far away from the others and while less so recently, his sister follws him. They are of that age.

 

[fuzzi]

It's when trying to calculate feed ratios that I can't help wondering why everywhere doesn't use the metric system and stick to mass measurement; cups, bushels, ounces...

Because we like with what we're comfortable?

I recall the big push for everyone and everything here in the US to convert to metric, early 1970s I think. Soda went from quart to liter, and all the metric equivalents were included on food labels. Beyond that, it never seemed to progress.

I don't need a scale in order to cook, which works for me.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Because we like with what we're comfortable?

I recall the big push for everyone and everything here in the US to convert to metric, early 1970s I think. Soda went from quart to liter, and all the metric equivalents were included on food labels. Beyond that, it never seemed to progress.

I don't need a scale in order to cook, which works for me.

LOL I use a scale when baking/cooking new-to-me British recipes, (most everything is measured by weight.) but once I make something once or twice, I don't measure anything and don't need the recipe. There are so many things that I can't remember, but when cooking/baking it is like muscle memory takes over. LOL

 

[BDutch]

It's when trying to calculate feed ratios that I can't help wondering why everywhere doesn't use the metric system and stick to mass measurement; cups, bushels, ounces...

In a large part of Europe they use kilos and grams for weight. And liters (liquids) for volume. All metric. Even lengths (meter) and our money system is metric.
Only in cooking books with recipes they often use cups, teaspoons and such. For products in the shops it’s not allowed to use any vague measurements.
We use the metric systems for centuries now. But some names we use in the Netherlands refer to another system like pond = 500grams and ons = 100grams.

 

[Perris]

I don't want the chickens to eat peas as such, I want them to get the nutrients, mainly amino acids, that the dried peas can supply. It's abount nutrition per 100 grams.

The preparation methods matter a lot. According to Jo Robinson, Eating on the wild side 2013: 186-193 if you simmer dried beans until they're done and then let them soak in the cooking liquid for an additional hour, the beans reabsorb some of the nutrients from the cooking liquor. And dried beans that were soaked then cooked in a pressure cooker retained the most antioxidant activity, as well as cooked faster. And bizarrely, when dried beans are canned they become more nutritious (in contrast to fresh peas and beans). The heat of the canning process enhances their nutritional value, making canned beans among the most nutritious foods in the supermarket.

 

[Perris]

The problem with cooking peas, beans etc is the heating reduces the nutrients in the foodstuff.

Yes, but peas or beans that are eaten and digested deliver more nutrients than peas or beans that are rejected or barely digested.

 

[Perris]

All metric. Even lengths (meter) and our money system is metric.

But not the calendar. It didn't catch on. It did however leave a legacy that makes the life of historians having to deal with documents from France in the period in question a REAL headache )

https://www.worldhistory.org/French_Republican_Calendar/