Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

Seriously, it's toxic to pets, and humans.

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departm...green-algae-poisoning-cyanobacteria-toxicosis

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That is a different thing from Star Jelly.

Edited to add, there are at least 2,500 different types of cyanobacteria, possibly as many as 8000 different species of it. The one in blue green algae is not the same as the one known as Star Jelly and about which I posted.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

That is a different thing from Star Jelly.

“Star Jelly” sounds like the name of some hostile inter-stellar space being that the USS Enterprise (the space one, not the aircraft carrier) might have encountered in the second or third season of the original Star Trek, the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy days. (I was hopelessly in love with Spock back in those days, and despised Captain Kirk.)

 

[notabitail]

Maybe they should just prescribe Taco Bell as prep instead of drinking that awful Gatorade mix and those evil little pills. It would be much more fun.

No. Sugar free gummy bears. According to some reviews they make you destroy your loo.

 

[thistlewick]

Shadrach I love your photos, they are little storybooks every day

 

[fuzzi]

That is a different thing from Star Jelly.

Edited to add, there are at least 2,500 different types of cyanobacteria, possibly as many as 8000 different species of it. The one in blue green algae is not the same as the one known as Star Jelly and about which I posted.

Good information. So, not all cyanobacteria is as toxic as the stuff that kills dogs. I'm still not going to consider it as a food source.

 

[fuzzi]

Pullet tax:

Lois

Claudia

Boys will not be named until I decide which one is staying.

 

[fluffycrow]

Taco Bell says “hold my beer!”

I learned that Taco Bell just opened their first restaurant in Athens (and in the country in general). Next time I’m in the city, I’m very tempted to try it. It’s not the first time I’ve heard about the explosive side effects of Taco Bell, and can’t help but be intrigued

 

[fluffycrow]

Returning to more healthy and real food, I remembered to take a photo of the favourite late autumn-early spring grazing spot I was mentioned weeks ago.

With no roosters around, the hens seem very content to graze on it, not letting the grass take over. Last year this spot was pretty much filled with grass

 

[no fly zone]

(Apologies for any TMI. When you’re 70, you genuinely don’t care any more.)

Weirdly, Taco Bell is what my brain says it wants after after a colonoscopy. You’d think that after all the… events of a colo prep that Taco Bell would be the last thing that my mind would consider interesting.

Quite literally, the only times in two+ decades that I’ve been to Taco Bell have been after a scope. All I can think of is that my battered body has decided to take on the attitude of “Bring it on, bay-bee!”

You have the naughty gut bacteria.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I learned that Taco Bell just opened their first restaurant in Athens (and in the country in general). Next time I’m in the city, I’m in the city, I’m very tempted to try it. It’s not the first time I’ve heard about the explosive side effects of Taco Bell, and can’t help but be intrigued

Don’t know why this was, but when I was in my 20’s and 30’s and ate drive-through crap, I actually liked Taco Bell. They used to sell something called a Taco Bell Grande, a larger taco with sour cream, that made me pretty happy. I never had any Unfortunate Consequences, although I have a pretty cast-iron GI system.

I never became a regular, because they carried Pepsi products instead of Coke but mainly because they never, ever got an order correct. Like, not once. TB was a destination for late-night stoners, and all I could figure out was that they hired from their most loyal customers.