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[lovinchickypoos]

Yes, my body has a terrible time absorbing vitamins and minerals apparently. Currently I'm taking:
Morning: Fish oil, multivitamin, 5,000iu vitamin D, CoQ10, and 200mg 5-HTP
Evening: Fish oil, calcium+magnesium, 5,000iu vitamin D, CoQ10, and 200mg 5-HTP

During the worst of the winter with no light, I was taking 15,000iu of D to help.

Wow, that's a lot of D! I'm weaning off of sertraline and am, instead, taking high doses of niacin. I was a bit low on D last winter so I started that up again but, in addition to a multivitamin, I only take 2000iu once a day. It has entered my mind to try to start taking it 2x/day to see what happens. The thing I read about niacin is that for depression you need to work it up to 1000mg 3x/day, which is what I'm doing now. It seems to be helping as there have been fewer and milder episodes of debilitating despair.
This is just from my own research and because of having celiac disease that I ignored for a couple years my nutrient absorption has been affected. I really want to get in to see a naturopathic doctor as it would be much safer to be in touch with someone who studies these types of treatments. I have just lost my faith in conservative medicine, which only treats symptoms and is not as concerned with helping the body heal itself. I'm sick of being told there is not much to be done about the neuropathy and fibromyalgia and am starting to take control myself.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

The only way I know how to respond to that is........
Head and neck is good!
Wings and body is bad!
When Black Coppers are growing keep your eye on the body. If they start to develope colors on their bodies there Roosters.
Hope this help......Oh, also comb size...You can tell there as well. almost no colb at all on the hens. Roos will have a very pronoused comb.

I had terrible luck with the 2 BCMs I got last summer!!! One had the color on his body so he was obvious, but the other one barely had any color on the head and turned out to be a melanized (correct term?) rooster!!!! My Welsummer also turned out to be a roo, so no dark eggs for me

 

[FirewifeJess]

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ITA! I don't have any diagnosed conditions, but my body is really broken right now. Changing my diet to Paleo really helped rid me of some pretty intense life long stomach issues, but nothing that was diagnosable. I love clean eating. I just feel better. We don't do fast food, barely any grains (and if we do, they're organic and non-GMO), no gluten, dairy, or soy. For so, so long I was having babies and/or nursing and I completely wrecked my body. I stopped working out and became totally weak, and caused a lot of spine and nerve damage from poor posture and bad choices. Now at only 29 years old I'm in the same body condition as my 53 year old mother and I'm working hard at reversing my bad choices over the last few years. I just started working out and already feel better! My spine is healing and my nerves aren't as inflamed now that I'm getting stronger. I just think a healthy lifestyle is common sense but for years I neglected myself and put my children before all else, and now I'm paying for it.

I also see a naturepath and she's great!!

 

[Ogress]

This is scary to me. I just had 8 yards of compost delivered and spread in new raised beds late this fall. I guess I'll find out this summer if anything will grow in it.

We had our soil delivered from Pacific Top Soils back in 2003 and 2004 - 4 big dump-truck loads of it! I specifically asked for their garden best, and the soil looked a lot nicer than the cheaper stuff I had delivered for ornamentals. I'm hoping there is enough awareness of the issue now that the stuff they market for vegetable gardens is more closely monitored. I gave up growing anything in it about 5 years ago.(and I did try potatoes and other plants/seeds from Irish eyes in it - few grew, but they do fine in my new garden). Maybe I should cover those raised beds in cardboard, mulch and chicken poo, let it kill the weeds and break down over the next year and give it another try.

 

[RainMom]

Hi all:

I've been busy and out of the loop on everything lately, but I was just glancing through my new issue of Mother Earth News (Feb/March2013) and came across an article that needs sharing. It is about herbicides that pass through livestock and into compost making "Killer Compost". I can't link to the latest article, so I searched and found this one from a few years ago:

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/killer-compost-zmgz11zrog.aspx

I had never heard of "Killer Compost", but it sure explains why all my raspberry plants died within 2 years of sticking them in the ground, and why I can hardly grow any vegetables in my original garden beds, but the new beds are fine. Blackberries grow wild and plentiful in my yard, so I felt the raspberries should do equally well. To give them an advantage over the established blackberries, I gave them plenty of compost that I had purchased and delivered by the truckloads. My property is all glacial till with no topsoil, so all of my garden beds are built up using this compost: 24 fruit trees, 40 blueberry bushes 1 dozen raspberry plants and 6 large vegetable beds (each aout 16'X4') were filled with this stuff. The blueberries are not affected by it, but all my raspberry plants got curled leaves, most died within a year, the rest died year 2. 1/3 of my fruit got curl and trees died, within 2 years, all but 2 of the others still have stunted growth, and in the garden beds I could not grow beans, spinach, peas, lettuce, asparagus, peppers, carrots ... all stuff that grows well in the new beds. AFter 4 years of frustration with the old garden beds, DH and I built new ones. My new beds I filled with a mix of organic compost from the local nusery that I buy by the bag and compost made from kitchen scraps and chicken poo. The organic soil is quite a bit more expensive than the "North West Garden Best" that I had truck delivered, but in the long run it is saving me because plants will grow in the new stuff. These new (well, new 5 years ago) beds are still not very deep, but every year I add a dozen new bags and a lot more compost.

I got a load of premium topsoil plus compost from a place in Black Diamond that was $35 a yard, supposedly their BEST super--dooper growing medium, and it was rock hard, packed down and my plants were all stunted. I had pepper and tomato plants that never got more than 6 inches tall and produced dwarf fruit. Mynew lawn areas would not even grow in that stuff! When I complained, the owner sent a very rude trucker out- weeks later- to argue with me.

Then the owner came out and told me I was dumb- everyone knows you need to add fertilizer to soil for things to grow (seriously, you can't make this up!). I asked him how he thought the pilgrims and pioneers survived and grew food- since they didn't have access to Home Depot.

I will never, ever, ever patronize that company again.

Then I got a load from the large-scale compost place in Maple Valley/Renton that killed half of my plants, and burned more.

Now that we moved to acreage, there's some local farms out here that I am hoping might want to rid themselves of some truckloads of manure- no more ordering from truckers with rocks for brains!

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[Hinotori]

New to BYC today but had to post recently moved into our home in Graham WA and in the process of getting our 1st coop built. Wanting to start with five any recommendations for what breeds work best.

Welcome neighbor!

I think about any breed you like will work fine here. Just keep the silkies under cover when it's raining. They look like drowned chickens when wet.

 

[Hinotori]

Hmmm you better get a good dose of vitamin D or hatchatitus will consume you before you know it.

It is our female way of dealing with rainy gloomy days.

LMAO!

 

[Ogress]

Someone mentioned lack of vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is very common on the west side of the state. I had my Vitamin D level tested a few years ago and I was very low. I felt tired and run down all the time. Once my vitamin D level got in the low normal, I felt much better. I work in a clinic with neurologists. The senior neurologist told me that almost every person he sees has a vitamin D deficiency.

We all take vitamin D. DH's doc recommended HUGE doses of it, way more than the RDA. I have to say it has helped him tremendously.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

FireWifeJess, I think it was you who mentioned vitacost.com and want to thank you for the tip (or whoever it was)!!!! It hurt when I bought coconut oil at the healthfood store at $16 for a 16oz container! Then I found the 54oz Vitacost one for $20...much better!!!!!!! Some of the GF products aren't much, if any, of a savings but there are some and I like the prices on some of their supplements.

 

[Hinotori]

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My doctor at McCord Clinic told me the same thing. Then there is the issue for me that my family (who live on the East side of the moutains) have a history of very, very low D levels. Mom's on prescription 10,000 iu vitamin D3 and still isn't even in the normal range.