Re: {Disarmed} Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem

My chickens get scratch and some cracked corn and seeds, and they free
range.  They have the BEST eggs...and I have no compost pile anymore because
they FOUND it and have scratched it all out looking for bugs.  I rake it
back up, they scratch it back out.  It's a game we have going on.  It's
really funny to watch them.  I raked up a bunch of fall leaves...they ran
over there making all kinds of noise and scratching them out in a big
pile...then, they turn around and go "HEY...LEAVES!  and scratch them right
back where I had them, then turn around and go "HEY...LEAVES!!"  It's the
funniest thing I've ever seen.



On 11/17/08, james singer <islandjim1@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Last time I had chickens I fed them nothing but scratch and oyster
> shell--and I let them out every now and then to eat grass, bugs, and
> anything else that struck their fancy. They produced great eggs. We always
> fed turkeys that same diet, and they [Beltsville whites] developed just as
> fast and finished just as well as the ones fed all that mysterious
> high-priced stuff.
>
> On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
> wrote:
>
> You can't eat anything anymore without worrying about it I guess. We eat
>> lots of our own home-grown lamb. And you think, well that ought to be
>> okay, we know what they eat - straight alfalfa grown locally - so (aside
>> from the whole red meat thing) it's healthy. But wait! What's in the
>> water they use for the alfalfa farms? Some of them are using biosolids
>> from the sewage plants for fertilizer, and partially treated water ditto
>> to water it...so now we have to find out where the hay comes from. Our
>> chickens eat basically "chicken chow" and what's in that, no one knows,
>> now we should figure out new food sources for them too? I grow my
>> vegetables in soil enriched with large quantities of manure from both
>> those sheep and the chickens. Makes my head hurt.
>>
>> Cyndi
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of james singer
>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:05 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] {Disarmed} Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem
>>
>> Ooops! Sorry... try this
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/6xvhba
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:55 PM, james singer wrote:
>>
>> And you thought all you had to worry about was pet food and take-out
>>> egg foo yung.
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem
>>>> By JAMES E. McWILLIAMS
>>>> For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what the United States
>>>> has failed to scrutinize is how much of the chemical has pervaded
>>>> our own food system.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Island Jim
>>> Willamette Valley
>>> 44.99 N 123.04 W
>>> Elevation 148'
>>> 39.9" Precipitation
>>> Hardiness Zone 8/9
>>> Heat Zone 5
>>> Sunset Zone 6
>>> Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
>>> Maximum 102 F [39 C]
>>>
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>> Island Jim
>> Willamette Valley
>> 44.99 N 123.04 W
>> Elevation 148'
>> 39.9" Precipitation
>> Hardiness Zone 8/9
>> Heat Zone 5
>> Sunset Zone 6
>> Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
>> Maximum 102 F [39 C]
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> Island Jim
> Willamette Valley
> 44.99 N 123.04 W
> Elevation 148'
> 39.9" Precipitation
> Hardiness Zone 8/9
> Heat Zone 5
> Sunset Zone 6
> Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
> Maximum 102 F [39 C]
>
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