Cheryl, what you were saying about natural remedies being touted as doing everything including curing our national debt, there are people here on BYC and other places on the web who have risen to guru status and have a cult following. I won't name names, but I can just bet some of you know who those are. It's not just the FF, but they perpetuate all sorts of myths as fact and are, shall we say, annoyingly self-righteous about it, even when they are full of chicken poop. Some, I avoid like the plague. If we end up on the same thread (by accident, I assure you), we usually have a verbal tussle because they pretty much lie through their teeth and act as if they know everything there is to know, even the unknown. I can't let them just perpetuate lie upon lie without a challenge. Apparently, nothing is secret from the gurus, they "know all" about every possible issue, they never admit they don't know something, never admit to mistakes and if their methods don't work, they'd never tell, but they doggedly stick to their fake facts to the detriment of other people's flocks.
Natural remedies have their place, but, IMO, more as immune system boosters than actual cures. Some things simply CANNOT be cured, period. But, oh, they won't tell their
minions that. For example, the claim that someone has never had a sick bird in X number of years of keeping chickens is misleading when you never allow one to live past 2 years of age without executing it or selling it off. And if you take off the head of any bird that "looks funny", you cannot say that you have not encountered Disease A or Disease B or this or that, because, frankly, you have no flipping idea! You killed it. You did not try to find out what was wrong with it. So, you basically perpetuate the myth that natural methods ALWAYS work because it ALWAYS works with your flocks. (liar, liar, pants on fire).
And my video about some of that:
