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[chickadoodles]

Congratulations Chickadoodles, I know that both of you are awful excited. He looks like a fine youngster.

Thanks Hagar.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Once upon a time (1985) I stayed on an atol of Lombok called Gili Trawangan. It was the most picture perfect little island with amzing coral, white sand beaches and snokelling.

Pak Majid's hotel has a dorm for 6 bucks a night including 3 meals a day. On the second day I moved into a bungallow with an English guy - five dollars each. It had electricity from dark till 12 midnight and cold cold beer. A great place for 2 or 3 days. I was actually saddened by the travelers there that had been holed up for two weeks on the island. With so much to see in Indonesia, I thought it was a waste to just hang out on the beach. A visa was just 60 days.

Your daughter is doing it right.

I ended up traveling along the island chain to Flores and Komodo Island. We sacrificed a goat and hung it in a tree along a dry river bed. It was amazing to see those massive lizards consume the goat. The pictures were incredible.

I stayed a month in Indonesia on that visit. I spent $1000 in country all in. It was my first adventure traveling solo and one of the best experiences in my life.

Sounds like you did it right too.
It sometimes astounds me how cheap it is to be in the most amazing places on earth. What gives?

Some pictures have come through of her beach bungalow.



The view from her bungalow

I hate Angus-- I'd be happy to eat it though!! Grass fed is so much more nutritous. Hope you find someone to s plit it with.


What's your beef with Angus ?(pun intended)
My first cow was an Angus. Better marbling of fat.



Also, How a food is processed and cooked also effects the availability of the calories.

As for the use of fat as the primary energy source vs carbohydrates, these are two different biochemical mechanisms. A high carbohydrate diet makes my body go crazy; a diet of meats, fats and low carb vegies does not. There is a study of two men that ate only meats for a whole year and reported feeling better at the end and had no reportable health issues due to the experiement. Of course the Inuit people, eating a traditional diet, already proved this: their diet is meat and blubber and little veg, only the lichens from the stomachs of the reindeer. It is when the US government added to their food supplies that dental caries started among these people. (THat study is online.) Humans have no requirements for carbohydrates.

Using fat for energy is different than using carbs. Using fat as an energy source is ineffecient and a lot of waste can result. Dropping the carbs to a much lower level and using fats and meats allows me to eat more food than a carbohydrated based diet. (THere is a reason why corn is used to fatten cattle, fatten hogs, fatten chickens. It promotes fat development.)

Not to mention that the fats developed from feeding corn to grazers are much worse than those developed from eating grass. Grass fed beef has significantly higher omega-3 fatty acids and the average ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in grass fed beef is 1.53:1. In grain fed beef, this ratio jumps all the way up to 7.65:1.
Grass fed contains a much higher proportion of staeric acid (the saturated fatty acid that does not cause cholesterol) than grain fed and much lower levels of those SFAs that do cause cholesterol.
Meat from ruminants contains the antioxidant conjugated lineolic acid. Grass fed levels of CLA are 2 to 3 times that in grain fed. That's because a grain based diet reduces digestive tract pH.
Grass fed also contains more beta-carotene (not found in grain), vitamin E, phosphorus, iron, zinc and potassium.
Paying a little more for grass fed beef and lamb gives one a better bang for their buck from a nutrition perspective.

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My doctor asks me questions that I answer anecdotally, and run a few blood tests and take blood pressure readings. COmbing anecdotal information and test results together, this is the evidence that low carb works for me. ANd I know MANY people that have the same results I do. It is unfortunate that you feel the need to denegrate the food choices that people make when in fact we are healthier eating paleo or low carb. I certainly have lost a few pounds and plan to keep losing-- only in recent years(75 ish) has the adult body put on so much fat as we age.

Anecdotally, I'll add a personal story. I got a job out of town and lived in Kansas City for 9 months. Since I knew I was going to be living alone for a long time, I decided to eat as well as possible. For the entire time, I ate nothing out of a package. I ate several servings of fruits, berries and raw vegetables. All my meats were rare organic grass fed beef, bison and lamb. All my fish was wild caught and sometimes eaten as sashimi. I ate very little grain. There's a bakery there that supplies grocery stores with 1/4 loaves of bread. Perfect for one person so you can eat before it goes stale. The bread was an organic multi grain.
The only exercise I had while there was walking 5 or more miles a day.
As I was preparing to return home, I entered the world's longest non-stop canoe race. The 'Missouri river 340'. It is 340 miles from KC, Kansas to St. Charles, MO. Most racers had a ground crew for supplying food and water. I didn't and had to carry everything in my slow whitewater cargo barge, an Old Town Appalachian open canoe. 150 boats entered the 100 hour race most of whom were well conditioned canoe/kayak racers. It was extremely hot with brutal headwinds and along the way about half of the entrants dropped out. The only training I did was a single 18 mile paddle and 1 mile swim the week before the race.
I was 56 at the time and finished in 79 hours, which included getting lost and stuck at night, hallucinating the last night and thinking the bridge near the end of the race was a dam that would suck me into the turbines so I started paddling back upstream wasting a couple more hours till I figured out it was a hallucination. I attribute the endurance to all the blackberries, etc. and a clean system...

I LOVE being able to put a face with a name on BYC!! Thanks, Chicka, you have a lovely family!

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Especially when you're used to associating the name with a bouncy yellow chick.

 

[dsqard]

Wisher what a wonderful gift to give your son. There will be some lucky ladies in the world who will get to date a young man who knows how to treat his partner with respect. Wish I had thought of that when my son was growing up. Not that he is rude, but I think he could stand to learn some of the finer points of respecting the person he is with at the time (i.e. not taking them for granted). Hope you two have a most excellent date!

 

[pickitfarm]

I am on the hunt for a new incubator. We have a Farm innovator with fan and turner. DH gets development and even movement from the eggs during hatching and we may get one or two to hatch or none.

Our best hatch was our very first last April when 8 out of 12 Rhodebar eggs hatched. The remainder of our hatches in 2013 were all a bust. This year he has successfully hatched 3 out of 28 eggs. We would build our own - but we do not have the time right now. I do not believe we need the capacity of a cabinet incubator at this time. I think a 40 - 50 egg capacity would suffice. I have looked at RCom....way to $$$$ for one with that capacity. I would save money purchasing a Dickey or Sportsmen. I looked at Brinseas and came to the same conclusion. I hear alot of you mention Genesis Hovabator 1588. Do you use the one with analog or digital gauges? Do you have one with a built in fan? I just want at least a 50% hatch rate...is that too much to ask? (The types of eggs I have been buying are not cheap. I could feed my current chickens for a month on some of the purchases.) I am purchasing a Brinsea Spot check thermometer because several of you here highly recommended it. For $20 how could I go wrong? Your honest opinions are appreciated.

 

[Dragonfly216]

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as part of my spa day (well spa 1hr) the "half sister" of one of our nannies comes to CocoBeach and I get a pedicure and coconut oil scalp treatment and head massage. HE is very skilled and I feel very clean and civilized. The coconut is picked, the meat is grated and then rendered over low heat on the stove. It does not get much better than that.

When the old folks home comes to cocobeach, you will all get treated to massages and mani-pedis on my lanai.
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Oh wow! That sounds awesome! There's do many good uses of coconut oil for the body, inside and out!

 

[Dragonfly216]

[COLOR=333333]The sustainable garden is developing [/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]We planted 4 Southern Live Oak seedlings along with 6 Australian Beach Cherry, 2 Loquat, 2 Bay Leaf (Laurel), Cuban Oregeno, 4 Muscadine Grape and Tahitian Gardenia seedlings in 8" pots the nursery.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]Seeds for Kaffir Plum, Indian Jujube, Prickly Pear, Dwarf Papaya, 3 types of Passionfrui and Camphor have been planted.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]Calla, Canna, Dhalia and Hawaiian Ginger bulbs went into pots to get started and then replanted at the start of the wet season in June.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]Our Ipil-Ipil and Malunggay seedings are over 15" tall and will also be re-planted in June for best survivability. The dry season is now well entrenched. The grass is brown. Planting anything in the ground will require loads of water. We will only plant vegetables in the garden for now. [/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]We have half a cubic yard of composted sawdust and rotted wood. We are starting to compost another cubic yard of sawdust to build up our soil. [/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]6 foot rows of swiss chard, kale and mustard greens go in to a head to head trial as new greens. They will compete with choy sum, a chinese green. Planting will be tomorrow.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=333333]A doz tomato varieties will also go into planters along with Anaheim and yellow peppers.[/COLOR]

oh! I'm so jealous! We are going to have a garden in our five raised beds, and we have blueberry trees, fig trees and a pomegranate tree, and wev are trying to get as self -sustainable as possible, but that sounds heavenly!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wisher, it's beginning to feel like spring here, too.

I can't say it's 70, but it's probably half that. And it feels phenomenal.

The driveway ice is finally melting. The goats are shedding.



It's warm enough to sit outside with my snuggly lap chickens and enjoy the moment.



The turtle has been found, shoveled and opened. I'm not sure what the Fire Department has as the capacity, but I think we're over the limit.



I'm going to get some seeds started this weekend!

 

[ronott1]

I am on the hunt for a new incubator. We have a Farm innovator with fan and turner. DH gets development and even movement from the eggs during hatching and we may get one or two to hatch or none.

Our best hatch was our very first last April when 8 out of 12 Rhodebar eggs hatched. The remainder of our hatches in 2013 were all a bust. This year he has successfully hatched 3 out of 28 eggs. We would build our own - but we do not have the time right now. I do not believe we need the capacity of a cabinet incubator at this time. I think a 40 - 50 egg capacity would suffice. I have looked at RCom....way to $$$$ for one with that capacity. I would save money purchasing a Dickey or Sportsmen. I looked at Brinseas and came to the same conclusion. I hear alot of you mention Genesis Hovabator 1588. Do you use the one with analog or digital gauges? Do you have one with a built in fan? I just want at least a 50% hatch rate...is that too much to ask? (The types of eggs I have been buying are not cheap. I could feed my current chickens for a month on some of the purchases.) I am purchasing a Brinsea Spot check thermometer because several of you here highly recommended it. For $20 how could I go wrong? Your honest opinions are appreciated.

The New Style Genesis 1588 is a very nice step up from the farm innovator. The Brinsea Spot Check is a must for sure.

You can hatch in the old incubator and run staggered hatches. I have had a lot of great hatches in my Genesis.

 

[pickitfarm]

The New Style Genesis 1588 is a very nice step up from the farm innovator. The Brinsea Spot Check is a must for sure.

You can hatch in the old incubator and run staggered hatches. I have had a lot of great hatches in my Genesis.

Is this the one you are referring to with the digital control? Does it have a fan or is it best to use still air?

 

[ronott1]

Is this the one you are referring to with the digital control? Does it have a fan or is it best to use still air?

It has a fan. I like incubators with fans and digital controls better. The Temp and humidity reading need to be verified but the new control unit I installed is very close to correct.