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[JennS]

When you hatch your own chicks, do you take them somewhere to be vaccinated? How do people feel about vaccinating for Mereck's (sp?)?

Hatching chicken eggs looks pretty easy. It sounds like I wouldn't really need a turner, I could do it myself. I do think it's funny that you mark a chicken egg to make sure you are turning it regularly, whereas you mark a reptile egg for the opposite reason. Snake and lizard embryos drown if their eggs are flipped.

Jennifer

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Yes, I'm still trying to find a good balance between fattening them up sufficiently for winter through scratch treats, giving them my juicer pulp for excellent greens and produce nutrients that they can't get in my yard, and ensuring they are eating enough of their feed to keep them laying at maximum capacity. It's tough! I had another friend tell me she definitely doesn't supplement with light (they are in Portland OR) but they do give the chickens all of their juicer pulp all winter, and they continue to lay well year round except during a molt. I thought that was very interesting!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Holly - Have you seen a lot of the convincing documentaries on our style of eating? We really loved "Forks Over Knives," "Food Matters," and "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead." They each affected us in different ways and I'm glad to have seen them!

 

[FirewifeJess]

I guess I'll sit here and chat to myself a while until someone comes back.

 

[chickenjane82]

Us too. We are dairy, gluten, soy free, non-GMO everything if we can help it, and I avoid aritficial color and sugar like the plague. You should see how insane my children become when they have it! Oh my gosh they're like demons if they have candy, and not just from the sugar; we've linked MAJOR behavioral issues with Jeanine to Red Dye #5 & 40

We arent 100% dairy free. Im a drop host for raw grass fed organic milk. Were workin on gluten, but man... I love my bread

 

[chickenjane82]

Holly - Have you seen a lot of the convincing documentaries on our style of eating? We really loved "Forks Over Knives," "Food Matters," and "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead." They each affected us in different ways and I'm glad to have seen them!

I havent. Ive heard them mentioned before though.

 

[RaZ]

Yes, I'm still trying to find a good balance between fattening them up sufficiently for winter through scratch treats, giving them my juicer pulp for excellent greens and produce nutrients that they can't get in my yard, and ensuring they are eating enough of their feed to keep them laying at maximum capacity. It's tough! I had another friend tell me she definitely doesn't supplement with light (they are in Portland OR) but they do give the chickens all of their juicer pulp all winter, and they continue to lay well year round except during a molt. I thought that was very interesting!

My oldest 6 are ~18 months now and haven't moulted yet. I expect it is coming, but I am not looking forward to it.
I'm harvesting some of my pond plants (duckweed and others) to freeze and keep for winter feeding.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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We are not gluten free by choice. All the kids are gluten intolerant, as am I to a degree. I can have *some* things. As for dairy, mostly when I talk about "us" I mean the kids. I can also tolerate dairy fairly well (but not a LOT); we occasionally cook with butter; I only buy organic milk to use in my latte's once a day; it's extremely rare to find cheese in our house, we might have it every other month. Now if I could get the kind of milk you host, I would definitely buy it!

Gluten free is hard. It's in EVERYTHING! We do not have sandwiches or bread...ever. Tonight was the first time in 3 months I made some gluten free pizza crust for us to eat like bread with dinner and in the morning. Lunches are that much harder because we cannot have sandwiches; meaning there's nothing to put any pb&j ON! ugh. So we have a lot of celery with Almond Butter (have to use this because Peanut Butter has soy oil in it). We only put jam on bread...which we don't eat. So tomorrow morning's breakfast will be extra special because we're going to have the pizza crust with jam on it, and sliced apples/bananas. They'll be so ecstatic that we aren't having eggs or gluten free oatmeal AGAIN.

I have, however, found fantastic gluten free pastas; they're made with corn and quinoa and are non-GMO. YUM, and they have a lot of protein from the quinoa.

 

[chickenjane82]

We are not gluten free by choice. All the kids are gluten intolerant, as am I to a degree. I can have *some* things. As for dairy, mostly when I talk about "us" I mean the kids. I can also tolerate dairy fairly well (but not a LOT); we occasionally cook with butter; I only buy organic milk to use in my latte's once a day; it's extremely rare to find cheese in our house, we might have it every other month. Now if I could get the kind of milk you host, I would definitely buy it!

Gluten free is hard. It's in EVERYTHING! We do not have sandwiches or bread...ever. Tonight was the first time in 3 months I made some gluten free pizza crust for us to eat like bread with dinner and in the morning. Lunches are that much harder because we cannot have sandwiches; meaning there's nothing to put any pb&j ON! ugh. So we have a lot of celery with Almond Butter (have to use this because Peanut Butter has soy oil in it). We only put jam on bread...which we don't eat. So tomorrow morning's breakfast will be extra special because we're going to have the pizza crust with jam on it, and sliced apples/bananas. They'll be so ecstatic that we aren't having eggs or gluten free oatmeal AGAIN.

I have, however, found fantastic gluten free pastas; they're made with corn and quinoa and are non-GMO. YUM, and they have a lot of protein from the quinoa.

I sometimes buy the quinoa pastas but we love tinkyada.
I buy from www.vitacost.com
The thing about the gluten free is that its hard to match it up with the other stuff we dont eat, like soy, artificial stuff or soy... BLAH. Its annoying.
So I see "gluten free" but then read the back and alot of times I have to pass.
Its hard for us because of location! Theres nothing good local here.
I shop a lot online and through www.azurestandard.com
We get peanut butter thats just peanuts and salt.

 

[chickenjane82]

We just avoid processed too because it makes it easier. ya know? like an apple, ingredients:apple