Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[L-plate chicken mum]

Most people don't realize that Worcestershire sauce is fish sauce. And I believe (to be said in an M&S advert voice, for the Brits in the audience) they're not just anchovies, they're fermented anchovies

Fermented fish sauce, originating in the far east, was apparently the inspiration for Worcestershire sauce. But the Romans had garum, which was also a fermented fish sauce, and that was their equivalent of salt and pepper, i.e. used as seasoning in everything, so a version of it had probably been been here since the first century BC/AD.

That’s us Brits for you, Marmite & fermented fish sauce, yum!
Not sure if our antipodean friends have a local equivalent to Worcestershire Sauce but they do have Vegemite & TimTams (aka Penguins, sort of)

 

[kcan2]

they're not just anchovies, they're fermented anchovies

I suppose I am grateful that the particular brand of Worcestershire sauce in the cupboard contained no bioengineered ingredients, which was the main ingredient I was attempting to avoid. With the additional newly acquired information regarding fermented anchovy, Roman salt & pepper, and such, I suppose my shocked mindset will settle back into normalcy shortly!

@Perris I would be interested to know your input on GMOs/bioengineered ingred's in food. What are they, exactly, and are they worth avoiding? You always seem to have a lot of helpful info on these types of topics!

I am aware that tax photos are due for anchovy and Frankenstein food speech!

 

[BDutch]

I wonder when he'll find BYC, looking for solutions to newbie problems

And now we know the answer to the question, what to get the man who has everything

Almost. One important thing Beckham lacks: privacy.

That’s us Brits for you, Marmite & fermented fish sauce, yum!
Not sure if our antipodean friends have a local equivalent to Worcestershire Sauce but they do have Vegemite & TimTams (aka Penguins, sort of)

Vegemite is NOT marmite. I like the marmite but Vegemite is disgusting. Never tried Timtams, so no comment on that.

GMOs

GMO food is often* genetically created food that can take a lot of poisons were this vegetable is resistent for. The weeds around this veggie die of the poison.
The beans /veggies that are harvested contain a lot of poison and is not healthy.
GMO in chicken /animal feed is mostly GMO soy and corn.
If you see what they did in Brazil to make the poisonous field's maybe you think twice before buying it.
The landowners were /are taking down the rainforest. Are poisoning the soil and the people who work in the fields and families who live near the fields. Imagine the babies who are born sick.
There is proof that chicks who get organic feed are healthier than chicks that had standard feed that contained GMO. Getting proof for that is not easy, because the GMO industry (Bayer/Monsanto) did and does everything they can to proof otherwise.

*There is GMO food that is created for larger crops too. But this is not the GMO soy and corn in chicken feed.

 

[Perris]

@Perris I would be interested to know your input on GMOs/bioengineered ingred's in food. What are they, exactly, and are they worth avoiding?

Basically I'm fine with gene editing, which works solely with what's already in the organism in question, and nervous about GM (genetic modification), which may involve inserting genetic material from one organism into a completely different organism (and that makes me nervous because people are arrogant and always underestimate the likelihood and impact of unintended consequences of their actions, however well intentioned). Gene editing, by deleting errors or other problematic bits in a genetic code, has the potential to fix all sorts of congenital diseases in people, as well as improve disease resistance in animals and plants, see e.g. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/using-gene-editing-to-fight-deadly-genetic-diseases/

Here's a quick reliable summary of the difference between them:

"Gene editing tools are used to generate changes to the native genetic material. Unlike GMOs, which introduce novel configurations of genetic materials typically derived from other organisms, gene editing methods modify existing genetic material in ways that can yield beneficial outcomes.

Multiple tools exist to facilitate gene editing but CRISPR/Cas is by far the most commonly used. As a result, the term CRISPR is sometimes used interchangeably with gene editing. To date, gene editing has been applied to a large variety of plants and animals, including fruits, vegetables, wine grapes, fish, rice and other popular foods. Some of these gene-edited products are now on the market."

Source: https://allianceforscience.org/blog/2022/05/gmos-and-gene-editing-whats-the-difference/ (the rest of that web page is worth reading; I've only excerpted a small bit of it)

 

[Molpet]

All of my broodies took their chicks up to roost at around 8 weeks without any interference from me. But sometimes they will still cover the chicks with a wing while roosting and the chicks all try to get the spot right next to mom. Lately there's only been two or three chicks in a brood so it's fine.

Dusty, my black chirapa, is an interesting case. She took her two chicks (now both 4mo old cockerels) up to roost at 8 weeks. They spent two nights on the roost. But she herself likes to nest on the floor. So those two chicks went back down to the floor with her, until she went broody again two weeks later and kicked them out (she had already gone back to laying just six weeks after hatching them).

When the cockerels moved over to the main coop (by themselves because I locked them out of the broody coop), they roosted without help from me.

I guess one lesson from mom was enough.

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Dusty and 3 week old Slash out foraging and the two cockerels close by.

@TropicalChickies
Wondering how you are doing?

 

[Perris]

One important thing Beckham lacks: privacy.

Indeed. The dark flip side of fame.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Sign them and sell them as Shadrach-signed jars for $2000 a jar.
Or use them to store stuff.

I like your idea.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Whether or no you decide to wear your pigtail in a bun or your sandals with socks, your chicken feed does look and sound amazingly delicious!

Edit to add, I recently read the back of a Worcestershire sauce bottle and was startled (and slightly horrified) to find that it contained anchovies. I didn't think an anchovie had ever passed my lips, but apparently, I like them. Sneaky sauce.

I would say the reason everybody says they don't like anchovies is they tried prt or all of a whole one.

When it is toned down and mixed with other foods it takes on a completely different taste.

 

[notabitail]

Whether or no you decide to wear your pigtail in a bun or your sandals with socks, your chicken feed does look and sound amazingly delicious!

Edit to add, I recently read the back of a Worcestershire sauce bottle and was startled (and slightly horrified) to find that it contained anchovies. I didn't think an anchovie had ever passed my lips, but apparently, I like them. Sneaky sauce.

If I wear shoes it's sandals with no socks most of the time.

 

[notabitail]

I like your idea.

Which one?