Sorry But I've Seen Something And It Really Bothers Me

[WisconsinGardenChick]

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Are you sure about that? A tablespoon to a gallon sounds excessive.

 

[WisconsinGardenChick]

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This is an excellent post.

Want to hear something dumb I did? I used to wash all the greens I gave my hens and put them in a suet cage so they'd be nice and clean. What did they do? Pull every green out of the suet cage and throw it on the ground. THEN they eat them!

I do try to keep common sense levels of cleanliness, like emptying the droppings tray daily, and keeping their waterer clean, but not with bleach or antimicrobials.

Katherine

 

[Wildsky]

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This is an excellent post.

Want to hear something dumb I did? I used to wash all the greens I gave my hens and put them in a suet cage so they'd be nice and clean. What did they do? Pull every green out of the suet cage and throw it on the ground. THEN they eat them!

I do try to keep common sense levels of cleanliness, like emptying the droppings tray daily, and keeping their waterer clean, but not with bleach or antimicrobials.

Katherine

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but when I was a kid I ate dirt on purpose myself.

I prefered the reddish dirt to the other kind/color. I actually ate worms and grasshoppers as well - OH and flying ants (those were cooked) all on purpose!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

There was a study that came out this year that said kids who ate dirt were healthier an had a stronger immune system. I bet I was a healthy baby.


Read clay among other kinds of dirt are normal cravings when pregnant.

 

[WisconsinGardenChick]

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One year my dad planted a garden and we pulled carrots out of the ground and ate them without washing them! The Aztecs ate grasshoppers in their tacos...

OT - I lived in NE for 14 years, Wildsky - longer than I lived anywhere else. (We've been in Wisconsin for 5 years). I loved Omaha; lived there 9 years and in Lincoln for 5.

Katherine

 

[Nava]

that was before they invinted cooking oil, they wated crunchy tacos

 

[Lunachick]

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One year my dad planted a garden and we pulled carrots out of the ground and ate them without washing them! The Aztecs ate grasshoppers in their tacos...

OT - I lived in NE for 14 years, Wildsky - longer than I lived anywhere else. (We've been in Wisconsin for 5 years). I loved Omaha; lived there 9 years and in Lincoln for 5.

Katherine

Why did we make all those mud pies when we were young? I knew then they weren't appealing, but we took that bite, didn't we? I think as kids, that were allowed to play in the dirt and play pretend in the woods, that we somehow inherited some ancient wisdom. Eat some dirt, nibble on some plants ( I did that too, and was told everything I nibbled on was poisonous-I'm here now, duh) I remember foraging as a kid and nibbled on stuff on instinct. I wasn't one for going under the kitchen sink and going after the bleach and rat poison. (the skull & crossbones was a good hint!)

 

[chris_m90731]

i always scrub my water containers with bleach and agua

 

[jacktheknife]

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Poultry people,

Well said
I look at the water jug in with my poultry and think:
Would I drink that?
And if not I grab a clean 'gallon bleach jug with a side head hole in it'
and give the poultry a clean water jug.
I keep a bunch of them in a round wire 'barrel' tied to a tree nearby.
I wash them all at once.


Thank you...


J. Winters von Knife
and Sandymay
{asleep on our bed in there}
{She's a Hound}
http://jacksknifeshop.tripod.com/

 

[Wildsky]

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One year my dad planted a garden and we pulled carrots out of the ground and ate them without washing them! The Aztecs ate grasshoppers in their tacos...

OT - I lived in NE for 14 years, Wildsky - longer than I lived anywhere else. (We've been in Wisconsin for 5 years). I loved Omaha; lived there 9 years and in Lincoln for 5.

Katherine

Why did we make all those mud pies when we were young? I knew then they weren't appealing, but we took that bite, didn't we? I think as kids, that were allowed to play in the dirt and play pretend in the woods, that we somehow inherited some ancient wisdom. Eat some dirt, nibble on some plants ( I did that too, and was told everything I nibbled on was poisonous-I'm here now, duh) I remember foraging as a kid and nibbled on stuff on instinct. I wasn't one for going under the kitchen sink and going after the bleach and rat poison. (the skull & crossbones was a good hint!)

And let me tell you - I made some AWESOME mud pies. I even decorated them with pretty rocks and leaves and stuff..

Its the reason I dragged my kids out into the country, so they can get dirty and be kids! I hope at least they'll try some mud before they're too old to know better!