Ever wondered what a rooster sounds like in Russia, Japan or India? This infographic explains it all! Don’t forget to share with your friends and family 🙂
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In this weeks episode of AgriCast Digest Gabrielle discusses hydroponic organics and what makes the most nutrient dense vegetables. New (or old) theories about the causes of the Avian Flu epidemic, and also Q&A from listeners. Next week, we’ll discuss the DARK act and upcoming guests on the program.
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Here’s my personal top 10 list of egg-laying chicken breeds that are perfect to house in any of the chicken coop that I provide chicken coop plans for 😉 Enjoy and don’t forget to share this one!
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This week Gabrielle discusses good news in restaurants and stores, but mostly a WHOLE lot of Q&A!
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A Practical Guide to Chicken Illnesses and Diseases
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In this episode of AgriCast Digest, Gabrielle discuss the avian flu outbreak earlier this year as well as answers some of the questions our listeners submitted.
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Just as promised – the very first episode of our podcast AgriCast Digest is officially published! 🙂
In this first episode you’ll get a short introduction of your host Gabrielle Yoder and the podcast itself. We will also answer some of the questions you guys submitted in our previous post.
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Recipe for Anti-Fungal Powder
1 cup white kaolin clay
1 cup arrowroot powder (or non-GMO cornstarch)
15-20 drops geranium oil
Mountain Rose Herbs (not an affiliate link)
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So as some of you may have noticed, we have a new website. And we have a ‘we’, too! Let me run everyone through some of the changes that are happening at CCG.com.
After a lot of thinking, I realized that I really needed a staff to help me with fielding emails and things. I like to keep things personal and real. I hate stiff automatic sounding form emails when I email someone so the last thing I wanted was to do that to someone else. All the general help questions will now be addressed by the ladies I hired.
I am still here and any comment or question that is directly addressed to me they know to forward to my email. Not only that, but they aren’t chickensperts so any chicken related question goes right to me. Just please be patient with this old fella because I have a lot of new stuff brewing for you folks, but I still want to see you taken care of well.
That leads me to the fun new stuff.
Not only is there a spankin’ new website and awesome new package plan, but I have something extra special I’ve been working on for a couple of months.
Every day I get emails from subscribers and members alike asking questions about chicken rearing or a comment about some new thing I’m telling you about like olive oil scams. Some questions I get all the time and then others I have to step back and say ‘that’s a good one!’.
Here’s where I need your help.
I know you all have a million questions about chickens, poultry, rabbits (yep gotten those, too), cows, natural health, and anything else you could imagine. Can you think of some of the top questions you’d like addressed by myself or a panel of experts in the field? Got them in your mind? Good! Now just fill out the form at the end of this blog post and send it to me!
“Why are we doing this, John?”
Oh yeah, the important part. Podcasts!
Starting the first week of June (date to be announced) I’ll be doing monthly podcasts where we answer your questions. I also hope to invite various experts about various subjects (although let’s be honest, it’s going to be 70-80% chickens) to speak and also answer your questions.
So get those questions to me now. And while you’re at it, tell me who you want to hear from. Do you have a farm related expert you’d like to grill? Chickenspert? Favorite natural health guru? Tell me who you want to hear from and what you want to ask them. I’m going to collect these questions and comments to make the very first podcast.
More details about this soon. I don’t know about you folks but I’m excited!
Have a fabulous week!
John
I’d like to bust some of the chicken myths I’ve heard folks tell me before. On the left are the things I’ve heard and then on the right I bust the myth with modern fact and explain why the myth isn’t the best for this particular case.
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Yeah, I’ll bet it fixed the chicken right up. I’m sure it did also kill the mites or lice involved. Aside from being a literal walking fire hazard for a few minutes to an hour, dunking chickens in gas or turpentine is toxic to all involved. What you put on your skin gets absorbed so eggs wouldn’t be safe to eat for days. If you’re keen to use petroleum products, try Vasoline instead! |
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Nope. Hens will lay all on their own. No rooster needed unless you want baby chicks. Even I used to think that roosters stimulated hens to lay more often, but I recently read that it is a myth. After doing some numbers on my own coops and compared rooster to rooster-free ones, I discovered it really is a myth. Which is a good thing for folks considering urban coops where roosters are usually forbidden. |
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Dog food is not something chickens should eat on a regular basis as it is not formulated for a chicken’s nutritional needs and can make them ill after a while. I wouldn’t worry if the chickens get a few bites of your dog’s kibbles, but don’t actively feed it to your chickens. Aside from that, processed pet food is awful for just about anyone’s health. Would you really want to eat eggs from chickens who eat dog food? Most of it is made in China, where health standards are very low and a lot of profit is made by greased palms who look the other way. Anyone remember the scandal where melamine was found in dog food and baby formula? |
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I doubt it. I think PawPaw probably aged his chicken poop on a compost heap first before using it in the garden. Otherwise, it would burn all the plants up and he’d have a brown veggie patch. |
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This one is kind of a personal bone with me. Again, I don’t believe that tradition is always right, but nature usually is (not all the time, but that’s Natural Fallacy and we can talk about that later). This is sort of a reverse example of Granny’s wisdom because if Granny had been around 120 years ago she wouldn’t have even had lights. Whereas most Grannies were born in the 40’s or 50’s and post-post-industrialization. Using lights goes way against nature. With chickens I believe the hens involved will have a shorter life, but I don’t have hard evidence on that one yet. I do know that most factory farms run through a hen as hard as they can, don’t let them molt sometimes, and perhaps this is why using lights bothers me so much. Just like keeping bees awake 24/7 with lights so they can keep producing, it’s plain wrong. Humans should be the keepers and caretakers of animals. Forcing production is not caring for our animal brethren. Every farmer has to make a personal decision about this. I strongly recommend a lot of research if you choose to use lights with your hens. |
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Nope, sorry. No difference between brown and white or any other color eggs. |
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Even our own wonderful USDA has finally twigged to the fact that food sources of cholesterol do not raise blood cholesterol levels. Like much of dear Granny’s wisdom, it’s 1950’s science for a 21st century world. Even most doctors are estimated to be 17 years behind on current science discoveries. |
Below is a great recipe for a creamy coconut chicken soup. Give it a try and let us know what you think about it. If you make it the same way as in the video you can throw the leftover coconut (after making the coconut milk) to your chickens for a treat. If you have a different favorite recipe please share it so we can feature it in a post for our other readers to enjoy. Happy cooking!
Okay so I know some of you know what this is and some of you are probably thinking ‘lacto-what?’
I can say sauerkraut and people should understand what I mean by fermented vegetables. I believe most people think that fermentation is only for fruit and grain, like wine and beer. It’s a lot more than that. Even breads (sourdough) and drinks (kombucha, kefir, water kefir, buttermilk) are cultured and fermented. Also yogurt, sour cream, cheese, etc. Why do people ferment foods?
When we first kicked drinking soda several years ago, my wife decided to make a fun, fizzy drink for the kids. We tried making milk kefir first, which was a big adjustment. We hadn’t heard of water kefir yet. However she saw a tutorial online and from a few slivers of root ginger, water, and some sugar she made a healthful fizzy drink for our family that she flavored with fresh strawberry puree. When winter came around she hid elderberry syrup in the fizzy fermented beverage (that batch of syrup was a bit experimental and not too popular with the kids). I get the impression from my readings that in most places in Europe fermentation is not the lost art that it is here in the States. Through our rapid commercial expansion there have been a lot of traditions lost and sometimes I feel like America no longer really has a culture. My wife must feel the same way because she’s always cooking something from India, France, the Middle East, or just about anywhere but here. Maybe it’s just her way of travelling without leaving the farm. 😉 I’d like to heartily recommend that everyone who reads this try a little something new today. A spoonful of homemade sauerkraut with your dinner could do wonders for your digestion. A few sips of lacto-fermented soda could help you drop that corn syrup laden health nightmare. I’ve got some recommended reading if you’re interested in learning more, just scroll past the videos. These are three books that are absolutely invaluable to me:
The Self-Sufficient Life (and how to live it)
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And as for how to make that awesome lacto fermented soda my wife makes? Here’s the video that first taught her how.