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[Chickielady]

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You should enter that hat in your Fair !
It is awesome !

 

[hallerlake]

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I have ADOS, too.

 

[Chickielady]

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Big article, a great article, Greg.
Thankyou !
I love salt, but like to add my own sea salt.
My blood pressure has always been too low, bordering on 99/70 at best, but in the last year I see it has creeped up, so need to address that issue.
I am raising my own rabbits to butcher, have not started the meat chickens yet...so pu-ey and it does take alot to feed and house them, and a huge freezer to hold the bounty...that adds to the cost of raising your own meat.
Let's not forget the goo, feather plucking and so on.
I do not mind a couple-three roosters once in a while, but I have no energy to raise all our chicken.
There is a few really nice chicken farms here in Washington, and guarantees to have no hormones or additives, I assume that means salt, too...but you know what happens when you assume....
So therein lies the whole issue: is adding salt an additive ?????????????DUHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Why do they say "no additives" but add salt and extra water (sufficient fro processing ?) This is very evident with red meats and other meats such as ham...but chicken ??????
I read labels, having digestive disease and severly allergic to some foods and gluten, including msg (mono-sodium-GLUTi men) I am familiar with the labeling act of the past that forbids manufacturers from including any ingredient in the food that is not on the label.
barely half of the food manufactured in the USA abide by these rules.
Some have no label listing any ingredients at all, like the corned beef I bought and cooked a few weeks ago...and got ill from, and it must have had msg in it, but going back to read the label showed me there were zer ingredients listed on the package except "Corned Beef Flat"
Not even the spices were listed even though they could be seen through the plastic.
It is terrifying for me to think that all these additives are pumped into the chicken, and not on the label, and not only that but it is severely misleading to the concumer purchasing a 3 pound bird that has 1/2 pound of salt water added...not necessary to package the bird, and all cooks out, but we have to pay for that.
Makes me mad.

 

[Chickielady]

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I have ADOS, too.

I have ADOC so bad that I have been on medication and isolation for years, oh look at that froggie!!!!!

now, what was I doing ?????

 

[Chickielady]

I still cannot find anyone selling Rhode Island White hatching eggs anywhere !
I want them for their big eggs, and lots of them, and RIR are not for me.
I guess I will go to my 2nd choice:
White Javas, and they are about as hard to find.
So, my project for next year if I cannot find RIWs then white Javas to establish a big llayer flock, of heritage birds.

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

i am SOOO mad right now! I got my first standard sized egg today was so happy and was going to show BF that now he'll be getting "real" eggs since he complains about the bantam eggs....

my daughter (4) happens to be with me when I go to bring the egg up, she throws a fit, I stupidly give in and let her carry the egg, what does she do? tosses it in the air and *splat* all over my front step. Mind you, I am not mad about the egg, I am mad at myself for giving in to her whinning and her "promises" to hold it carefully. I KNEW she couldn't manage the task she was fighting for yet I gave in because I was out of patience.


I love my daughter but I wish I had more patience.

Thanks for letting me vent.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Chickielady

It is terrifying for me to think that all these additives are pumped into the chicken, and not on the label, and not only that but it is severely misleading to the concumer purchasing a 3 pound bird that has 1/2 pound of salt water added...not necessary to package the bird, and all cooks out, but we have to pay for that.

I was clueless that was going on.
I know all about farm salmon using dye but had no idea when the label says natural it really isn't with chicken.
That is FRAUD!

I just don't understand how they continue to get away with it.
Glad this reporter got the news out.


JR. Have made that mistake myself to many times. Been there. Yep.

The good news is you have recognized it early.​

 

[TrystInn]

Odd question: Anyone else with ducks ever get asked if you sell balut? We have a very large Asian population here on Whidbey and I do sell duck eggs to the Asian community on a fairly regularly basis but last night was the first time someone asked me about balut. I tried very hard to be polite, responding that I had no idea what the safety procedures are or how to do them because I didn't want to offend the very polite Asian man asking about them. After he left, I had to admit to myself I was really quite horrified.

For those unfamiliar, balut is a delicacy of fossilized partially developed chicken or duck embryo served in the shell.

I adore our little ducklings and when the ducklings don't make it to hatching, I'm heartbroken. I'd rather the dead eggs get tossed or composted then sell their little bodies as a delicacy.

I realize this is my own cultural blindness, but I'm curious if others have been asked and how they address this?

 

[jbear]

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no... I have only actually seen this on TV on that food travel show... tony what's his name? He said he'd eat the continental b'fast at the motel the next morning instead.. lol! but gross. I don't know how you would say

politely! eeech...

 

[hallerlake]

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Little kids can be very persistent, not to mention insistent. Sometimes it's hard to hold out.