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[annewandering]

Table salt, Himalayan salt and sea salt are all the same--sodium chloride. The latter two just have more "impurities" in them. The balance of Sodium (outside cell membranes) and Potassium (inside cell membranes) is critical for cellular function. Both are electrolytes. It is a balance, and if you have an excess of Sodium, you will effectively have a shortage of Potassium. Potassium is much, much harder to find in our diet, while Sodium is everywhere in massive quantities. Unless you cook everything you eat, including baking your own bread, and don't add salt, you will likely have an excess of sodium in your body. Look at the labels of foods such as pasta sauces, bread, etc.

Salt is used in bread to control the yeast development. It is necessary for the baking. It is not in large amounts however.

 

[back2simplelife]

My husband has an allergy to red dye so cooking what he calls "real food" is what we do. I have always tried to avoid corn syrup but it's in so many prepackaged foods! Why does something like sausage NEED corn syrup anyway?
For my family it's just easier to make everything from scratch than stand in a store reading ingredient labels!

Agree!! My lil ones are allergic to dyes, soy and dairy.. learning how to feed them sure opened my eyes to what goes in processed food! That mixed with the loss of my gma and mom to cancer.. well let's just say I am very careful what goes in both mine and my families bodies now! (not to mention ON it as well!)

 

[Raine06]

So excited.... one of my hubby's yokahmas has gone broody!!!! We have 3 under the silike and she has 5 under her. Hope the mortality rate is much higher than it has been. I think out of a dozen that hatched only one is still here, it's momma is a game. It has been a hard year for these chicks. When we started out last year we only lost a few, this year has been horrible!!! All of the mamma chickens that went broody only have one chick left with them...

 

[back2simplelife]

Hey ya'll.. need a lil bit of help. I had saved this pic and now can't remember where I got it so I can't go read on it!

How high up do you think the bottom of the cut out should be for adult hens? I need to figure out something while my poultry nipples ship here as pine shavings keep taking over!

 

[TexasLisa]

So excited.... one of my hubby's yokahmas has gone broody!!!! We have 3 under the silike and she has 5 under her. Hope the mortality rate is much higher than it has been. I think out of a dozen that hatched only one is still here, it's momma is a game. It has been a hard year for these chicks. When we started out last year we only lost a few, this year has been horrible!!! All of the mamma chickens that went broody only have one chick left with them...

 

[Italia]

I do not want to upset you or anyone else, but after I nearly died I had to take a good look at what my lying criminal doctors were telling me. I now eat a diet very high in grass fed animal fats and I drink a glass of brine every day. Not only have I lost weight but I have new knees, hands, and back. I lived a life of chronic pain and thought it was normal. If I do eat bread, I make it myself out of arrow root and almond meal. Salt is great for you and fat does not make you fat! Bread does make you fat and has no nutrition at all. In fact it is full of lectins and anti-nutrients and is slowly killing everyone.

Table salt, Himalayan salt and sea salt are all the same--sodium chloride. The latter two just have more "impurities" in them. The balance of Sodium (outside cell membranes) and Potassium (inside cell membranes) is critical for cellular function. Both are electrolytes. It is a balance, and if you have an excess of Sodium, you will effectively have a shortage of Potassium. Potassium is much, much harder to find in our diet, while Sodium is everywhere in massive quantities. Unless you cook everything you eat, including baking your own bread, and don't add salt, you will likely have an excess of sodium in your body. Look at the labels of foods such as pasta sauces, bread, etc.

So basic is this electrical function, that salt is one of a group of elements called "electrolytes". These are made up of ions, which are groups of atoms that carry a positive or negative electric charge. An ion can be either positively charged or negatively charged, and, like magnets, opposites attract.
Sodium is positively charged and chloride is negatively charged, so they attract each other and bond tightly. Our bodies also contain other electrolytes, including potassium (+), calcium (+), magnesium (+), bicarbonate (-), phosphate (-), and (sulfate (-).
Electrolytes are essential because your cells use them to transfer liquids, nutrients, and wastes across their membranes and to carry electrical impulses through nerves and muscles to communicate with other cells. Salt is even essential to brain function--without it, our brains would not even be able to send a message to lift a finger.
No Thoughts and No Actions Without Salt
Even the simplest processes in our body need salt or its inherent elements in ionized form. For example, it is the task of our nervous system to transmit the stimulation that has been recorded via sensory input to our brain, which in return passes this information back to our muscles in order for us to react to the respective stimuli. An electric potential occurs on the membrane wall of the cells when the positively charged potassium ions leave the cells and the positively charged sodium ions cannot enter due to their size. The outside becomes positively charged and the inside negatively charged. When a nerve cell is stimulated, its membrane suddenly becomes polar opposite and consequently is permeable for the sodium ions. In one-thousandth of a second (1/1000th), the electrical potential is transformed and releases, with every nerve impulse, 90 mill volts of energy. The received stimuli are now being converted into thoughts and actions. Without the elements potassium and sodium in the salt, this process is not possible. Not even a single thought is possible, let alone an action, without their presence. Just the simple act of drinking a glass of water requires millions of instructions that come as impulses. In the beginning there is the thought. This thought is nothing but an electromagnetic frequency. The salt is responsible for enabling this frequency to transmit commands to the muscles and organs.
The Conductivity of Salt
Most of us are familiar with experimenting with the conductivity of salt from science class. We attach two ends of an electric current to a light bulb and submerge it into a glass with distilled water. Because this water is not conductive, the bulb does not light up. But when we add a little bit of salt into the water, the bulb slowly starts to glow. It is the same with our body. When we lack the natural elements of the salt, we are suffering from a chronic loss, a chronic energy deficit, or deficit of information. Salt cannot be labeled as a medication, because that would imply that apples too were a medication. Salt is a core essential nutrient with exceptional abilities and qualities fundamental for keeping us alive. And we can find that which we are lacking, the respective frequency pattern, as well as the necessary bio-chemicals, in natural crystal salt.

 

[Little Wing]

If you are talking about the cut out in the water bucket, I put feeders and waterers as high as possible with them still being able to reach it. I put the nipples just over their heads so they have to reach up for them. Seems to be less waist that way. Sometimes it's hard to reach a happy medium with different age chickens.

 

[Italia]

I was wondering if you have ever used essential oils? I heard they are amazing, but know nothing about them.... Guess I have found what I need to learn about next month.

I use coconut oil and aloe I grow myself for sunscreen but that's about it on oils. I do use Epsom salt all the time and take magnesium malate like a religion. Also use MSM, zinc and potassium iodide drops. Also some really great stuff is MSM lotion and magnesium oil spray are two of my faves for health care. I sometimes will make us a batch of liposomal Vit C.The biggest secret of health is......... Bone broth!!!!! Yep it is the fountain of youth and I swear by it. The crock pot is my best friend!

Oh, and cinnamon oil mixed with vanilla works pretty well to keep off mosquitos. Must be sprayed everywhere though. If you miss an arm they will find that spot.

 

[Jessica Lynn]

I do not want to upset you or anyone else, but after I nearly died I had to take a good look at what my lying criminal doctors were telling me. I now eat a diet very high in grass fed animal fats and I drink a glass of brine every day. Not only have I lost weight but I have new knees, hands, and back. I lived a life of chronic pain and thought it was normal. If I do eat bread, I make it myself out of arrow root and almond meal. Salt is great for you and fat does not make you fat! Bread does make you fat and has no nutrition at all. In fact it is full of lectins and anti-nutrients and is slowly killing everyone.

How much salt and water do you mix together for your glass of brine?

 

[wlhtx]

Wow, it has been a weekend of chicken-related ups and downs. We lost a 6 weeks old little pullet night before last. We have gotten to where we always leave our big dog outside, since our losses always occur on nights he sleeps inside. Well, night before last was one of those where the husband and I both fell asleep super early and so the dog didn't get put out. And - true to form - we lost this little pullet. She was just a mutt cross of JG and BO, but she was the closest thing to a lap chicken we've ever had. Very sweet and inquisitive little thing. I spent all day yesterday wondering what got her. No remains found.

Well, the big dog was back out last night. No losses this morning, but we woke up to big dog reeking of skunk. So, I'm guessing that's our culprit.

Anyways, that's the low. The high is that I FINALLY got a first egg from one of the 25 week old pullets that I was complaining about on here a day or so ago. A BO that i was expecting to lay her first egg over a month ago... I love finding those first eggs.