Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

Strange to find so many people in this thread who like to give their chickens healthy food and discuss about what is good and what not for them. And in the meanwhile the people themselves have very unhealthy habits.

The advice is my country from the national organisation ’Voedingscentrum’ is to eat 70-80 grams of meat (or vegetarian equivalents) a day for a healthy lifestyle.

https://mobiel.voedingscentrum.nl/encyclopedie/vlees.aspx,
Translated txt from their site: For a sustainable and healthy diet, we recommend eating no more than 500 grams of meat per week, including a maximum of 300 grams of red meat. It is not necessary to eat meat, you can replace it with other products. +
Eating a lot of red and especially processed meat such as meat products is associated with stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer.

Other claims on the internet with higher meat consumption advice, is often paid by the meat industry.

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That certainly isn't a lot of meat. Although thinking about it I eat maybe 200g of meat a week. I am not counting fish which I eat a lot of.
Mainly I eat beans and lentils in various forms, often with rice and eggs.
But sometimes I eat more meat - particularly if one of the hunters gives me venison.
Higher meat consumption I think often comes because people need or want to reduce carbs.
Oh, and it is very tasty!

 

[RoyalChick]

Preasure cook the beans & rice, then store them in the fridge overnight. This changes the carbs from simple to complex. Just reheat and serve. This is how we do it, and we eat beans and/or rice 2-3 times a day.

I read about that. I don't begin to understand it - feels a bit like magic - but there is apparently well documented evidence of this for rice. I didn't know it worked for potatoes too.

 

[BDutch]

We eat a lot of vegetables with our meals like courgettes, bell-peper, tomatoes, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, peas, green beans, broccoli, pumpkin, sweet and ordinary potatoes, parsnip, carrots, onions ...
An easy meal is pasta with veggies and cheese, a meal soup, rice with pre-cut veggies or veggies from the freezer with a veggie-burger.

We try to eat about 150-200 grams each day with our evening meal. But we are no food saint either. If we get/order a pizza or snack food (french fries) we like to eat a salad with it to compensate the lack of health a bit.
We often eat the meat alternatives (UPF food or made tinned beans) bc we do not like to eat animals like mammals and birds. We do eat fish 1 or 2 times a week.

 

[Molpet]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

Chicken tax

 

[fuzzi]

That certainly isn't a lot of meat. Although thinking about it I eat maybe 200g of meat a week. I am not counting fish which I eat a lot of.
Mainly I eat beans and lentils in various forms, often with rice and eggs.
But sometimes I eat more meat - particularly if one of the hunters gives me venison.
Higher meat consumption I think often comes because people need or want to reduce carbs.
Oh, and it is very tasty!

A number of people have been trying a carnivore (all meat) diet. While many sites refer to it as a fad, Harvard did an actual study that appears unbiased:

https://www.doctorkiltz.com/the-harvard-carnivore-diet-study/

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Sussex do look like bricks!

 

[fuzzi]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

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We split butternut squash lengthwise, remove the seeds, then brush with melted butter and honey while baking.

 

[RoyalChick]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

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You can make soup with almost all kinds of squash. I don’t recognize that one. The only white one I know is a white Acorn squash but I don’t think it is that.

 

[Molpet]

We split butternut squash lengthwise, remove the seeds, then brush with melted butter and honey while baking.

Yes that would be good. Butter and sweetener I do not use often. It's hard to find goat butter and I limit the sweetener

 

[RoyalChick]

A number of people have been trying a carnivore (all meat) diet. While many sites refer to it as a fad, Harvard did an actual study that appears unbiased:

https://www.doctorkiltz.com/the-harvard-carnivore-diet-study/

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Sussex do look like bricks!

I didn’t read the actual study yet, but just going on the link you sent it is interesting.
Most of the health stuff is self-reported which introduces massive bias. But I will read the actual study before I comment further.
My diet is not primarily driven by health. What determines what I eat is a bit of health, a bit of environment, and a lot of taste and convenience. Cooking a big pot of rice and beans on a Sunday and eating it all week with either some grilled fish or some eggs is just very easy for me and very yummy.
I like to cook and I like to experiment with dishes. And because I live alone I can randomly decide that stir-fry cabbage for breakfast is just the thing. Actually, it really is delicious!

 

[Molpet]

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April 25th hatched by turkey . He hangs out with the turkeys more than the chickens. Does Chase the pullets.
Part dark Cornish and black jersey giant. Looks like his dad.