Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

Stocking stuffers for Christmas

Instead of coal?

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Chicken came out great! Took longer to bake through than I expected. Meat was very flavorful and moist, the dark meat in particular was a hit. The remainder will make a great soup later this week

Do cooked chickens count as tax...?

 

[Perris]

I tried 6 brands and the nutritional analysis for each brand was very different from brand to brand. protein for example which was what I started off looking for ranged 16.2g per 100g to 24.8g per 100grams. Another surprise was the fat percentage difference per brand.

The variation arises mainly from what else is in the tin, not just water v brine v oil v tomato sauce etc. but importantly how much is sardine and how much is other. The average for each type, even by brand (US brands, typically) can be found here https://www.myfooddata.com/ (a search for 'sardine' throws up 35 results). Herbs, spices, fancy oils, sauces, waters and brand labels just increase the prices and not the nutritional values, usually. Prices may also reflect sustainable fishing promises and practices, if you trust them.

My birds aren't fussy, they love sardines however they're dressed. I usually get big supermarkets' / discounters' own brands, in sunflower oil or tomato sauce, or the Moroccan ones in Lidl (typically 49p per tin these days) which are almost entirely sardine inside.

An interesting article on sardines.

Yes, but blinkered by lab tests and results, as with so much writing on nutrition. One of the best things about sardines is that they are foraged fish, not farmed, and that isn't even mentioned. That also feeds into the variability in nutritional profile, but in a very small way relative to the dressings/ fillers they are packed with in the tin.

In the same way that we don't know the scope and range of what our chickens eat when foraging, so we don't know what fish that swam free their whole lives till they were caught have consumed. But the fact they were swimming free evading predators till that moment indicates a level of health missing in most (all?) farmed fish, which is just as industrial as land-based 'farming', but out of sight so normally out of mind. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470303/factory-farming-aquaculture-fish

 

[RoyalChick]

The variation arises mainly from what else is in the tin, not just water v brine v oil v tomato sauce etc. but importantly how much is sardine and how much is other. The average for each type, even by brand (US brands, typically) can be found here https://www.myfooddata.com/ (a search for 'sardine' throws up 35 results). Herbs, spices, fancy oils, sauces, waters and brand labels just increase the prices and not the nutritional values, usually. Prices may also reflect sustainable fishing promises and practices, if you trust them.

My birds aren't fussy, they love sardines however they're dressed. I usually get big supermarkets' / discounters' own brands, in sunflower oil or tomato sauce, or the Moroccan ones in Lidl (typically 49p per tin these days) which are almost entirely sardine inside.

Yes, but blinkered by lab tests and results, as with so much writing on nutrition. One of the best things about sardines is that they are foraged fish, not farmed, and that isn't even mentioned. That also feeds into the variability in nutritional profile, but in a very small way relative to the dressings/ fillers they are packed with in the tin.

In the same way that we don't know the scope and range of what our chickens eat when foraging, so we don't know what fish that swam free their whole lives till they were caught have consumed. But the fact they were swimming free evading predators till that moment indicates a level of health missing in most (all?) farmed fish, which is just as industrial as land-based 'farming', but out of sight so normally out of mind. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470303/factory-farming-aquaculture-fish

But if you care about the health of fisheries then pay attention where they come from.
https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consumer-guides/sardine-anchovy-herring