Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

Looking forward to seeing the pictures!
I don’t eat meat very often. I do eat a fair bit of fish and dairy however.
I try and buy meat from local farms but I have just fallen out of the habit and can’t remember the last time I ate beef.

I realized recently that I am not eating as much meat. I've started picking up small portions of organic meat at the farmers' market. I made myself a brown rice and hamburger goulash from meat I had in the freezer, but it was just "okay". So I've been feeding the leftovers to the flocks

Today a coworker gave me some overripe cherry tomatoes for my chickens.

They were appreciative. The other hens not in the picture had already grabbed a tomato, and run to a safer area to devour it in peace.

 

[ChaosMom]

I'm not a fan of Google, but I'm not a fan of any of the others either. I read the hype on DuckDuckGo for example and gave it a try and a bit of reasearch. It's leaky and it seems some information still gets passed to third parties. I'll have alook for a guide on how to get it off the phone and if I run into problems I'll send you a PM if I may.

I’ve got multiple blockers enabled, AdGuard and Adblock Plus. I don’t fool myself that it prevents everything, but it helps.

After the gift one month Premium Membership that someone gave me, I’ll buy my own membership here, just to support the site. But I do love not seeing ads and not having new suggestions for ads “based on my viewing history”!

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

I'm not a fan of Google, but I'm not a fan of any of the others either. I read the hype on DuckDuckGo for example and gave it a try and a bit of reasearch. It's leaky and it seems some information still gets passed to third parties. I'll have alook for a guide on how to get it off the phone and if I run into problems I'll send you a PM if I may.

The thing about android phones is that the operating system itself is owned by google. My idealistic scorched earth mind hates how everywhere it is, so I strive to purge it from my life even at great personal inconvenience. Switching operating systems is the most effective way of doing this, it's also how people like high profile journalists evade spyware like pegasus.

 

[MrsNorthie]

I'm not a fan of Google, but I'm not a fan of any of the others either. I read the hype on DuckDuckGo for example and gave it a try and a bit of reasearch.

We use the browser, Brave, I like it better than both google and Duck Duck Go, but feel like they all 'spy' on us to a certain extent and the phone is still infected with google.

I found flashing graphene OS to be very easy with the instructions: https://grapheneos.org/install/web
It seems wordy and complicated, but it's not that bad when you get down to it

Thank you for sharing that link, It would be nice to purge google from the phone.

 

[ChaosMom]

@Perris, since you “liked” as Informative my short-lived thread on the Feeding sub-forum that linked to an article by an NC State Extension agent, I wanted to let you know that I did lock it after receiving concerning feedback about generative AI/plagiarism issues, and I requested that a mod delete it, which they did.

There was nothing terribly inaccurate about it, but it was self-contradictory in places and vague in others (typical generative AI crap), and it did not credit several of its main sources.

I’ve reported it to my Extension agent as possible academic plagiarism, and she’s sending it up the ladder (way above both our pay grades!)

 

[Perris]

@Perris, since you “liked” as Informative my short-lived thread on the Feeding sub-forum that linked to an article by an NC State Extension agent, I wanted to let you know that I did lock it after receiving concerning feedback about generative AI/plagiarism issues, and I requested that a mod delete it, which they did.

There was nothing terribly inaccurate about it, but it was self-contradictory in places and vague in others (typical generative AI crap), and it did not credit several of its main sources.

I’ve reported it to my Extension agent as possible academic plagiarism, and she’s sending it up the ladder (way above both our pay grades!)

Self-contradictory and vague is common in human writing too sadly, especially on topics like fermented feed when it is not made clear from the first what sort of feed is being fermented. And don't get me started on plagiarism! I think academia is going to have to grasp this nettle very soon. Read the last two article submission threads to see byc staff attempting it.

 

[BDutch]

I'm not a fan of Google, but I'm not a fan of any of the others either. I read the hype on DuckDuckGo for example and gave it a try and a bit of reasearch. It's leaky and it seems some information still gets passed to third parties. I'll have alook for a guide on how to get it off the phone and if I run into problems I'll send you a PM if I may.

I choose 2 from this list:
https://kinsta.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/
Using Ecosia (who uses their profits to plant trees) and Qwant (hosted in France with very good user privacy protection)

PS
I have an I phone. They are commercial as well as google. Only less annoying. In an Iphone its easy to add another browser to Safari and easy to switch to another search engine within Safari too.

Tax

 

[BDutch]

Coming back on mowing the lawn:

Bee drama underground: half of wild bees threatened

Source: Https://nos.nl/r/623958

The article starts with explanation that apart from the intensively agricultural land use, the climate change is real bad for the wild bees who live in the ground. Climate change causes longer periods of extreme drought in one year and in other years it causes longer periods of rain, often accompanied with extreme weather and lots of rain in a short period. The bee cells with the eggs drown when its too wet. The flowers often don’t survive the extreme differences in the weather if they have to concur with grasses. Or they start to bloom in the wrong period of the year.

At the end of the article there are 2 paragraphs on mowing the lawn:
The Bee foundation (Bijenstichting) and Break the stones foundation (Stichting Steenbreek) have started the 'Mow less' campaign, as a successor to 'Maai Mei Niet'. Instead of just not mowing in May, the new campaign calls for less frequent mowing throughout the growing season. This way more flowers remain, which is good for bees, butterflies and other insects, and thus benefits biodiversity.

"Of course we also understand that people sometimes want to mow their lawn. Mowing occasionally is fine, but less often already helps. Leave one or two strips of grass so that flowers can grow there for bees. If everyone does that and if there is awareness of that, that will certainly help." According to Molenaar, it is important that people become aware that it is not about one month, but about structurally different mowing behaviour.

 

[BDutch]

got told about an application called Yuka.

Isn’t it Yucca?
Yuka doesnt exist in the App store.

Yucca is free but does gather info in relation to your id. So if you use it, do some random food checks too if you dont want them to gather too much personal info.

 

[RoyalChick]

On the food topic...
I can't believe I'm about to suggest anyone tries out a mobile phone application program but...
I got told about an application called Yuka. You scan the bar code of the product and the application rates the "healthyness" of that product. It's sort of okay at doing this but it's not very sophisticated. What it does do however is suggest healthier alternatives and one can search various shops on the internet to find a local supplier.
I read the product labels but I still get caught out and having alternatives is I found quite helpfull.

On the picture front I deeply regret having to write that practicality has over ruled my dislike of mobile phones. Thanks to @notabitail I have a new mobile phone on it's way. I went for the Google Pixel 8a, which I found for a third off, mainly on the strength of it's camera and image manipulation.

It's half the weight of my current brick. Whether it does what it says on the tin I shall find out.

Confused about the app. Can’t you just read the label?