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Posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 10:15:44
July's issue has an article called 'Food Ark'. They have a two page spread on uncommon chickens. There are tons more than they show. These breeds are not uncommon to hobbyists, but they are not on our plates unless you raise them. The chicken we buy in the market is a very strange hybrid :-/
Anyways, we have a few of these pretty
breeds at home: Silver Gray Dorking,
Speckled Sussex, Silkie.The Dorking was brought to England by the Romans it is believed. Silkies are most likely the odd chicken Marco Polo wrote about seeing in China.
Silkies have black skin, black bones, grey flesh. They are a delicacy in China
(though I have never been there to confirm this.) Their eggs are really good :-) !We just eat the eggs here. Our chickens
will have ridiculously long lives :O) We have sent a few roosters 'onward' to our friend's more serious farm project, and were told they were very 'good'.The article also has great pictures of potato varieties.
Posted by sigismund on June 30, 2011, at 14:37:01
In reply to pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 10:15:44
At the local show there is always a poultry show too.
It is so soothing. I always try to go.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 30, 2011, at 21:26:03
In reply to pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 10:15:44
I can't look...
I'll have to go vegetarian, and I just don't think I can do it.
Maybe I could just eat fish?? but what about the poor fish?? they look at you...you know? with that eye!
Posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 22:28:32
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic » floatingbridge, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 30, 2011, at 21:26:03
> I can't look...
> I'll have to go vegetarian, and I just don't think I can do it.
> Maybe I could just eat fish?? but what about the poor fish?? they look at you...you know? with that eye!
>This is a problem that my son is working on. I hold him to fish and chicken. He
would prefer just fish. But he's growing!He was upset one day, and I asked him. He said I love the lion and the gazelle.
I try to hold a health bottom line. I can't figure it out, but being vegetarian for years, well, I caught colds all the time. His tcm person has told me he needs it.
(Guilt.) But his ansestors were bigtime carnivores. (More guilt.)
Posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 22:37:25
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by sigismund on June 30, 2011, at 14:37:01
> At the local show there is always a poultry show too.
>
> It is so soothing. I always try to go.Sometimes I sit in the hen yard. It unwinds my mind. They have funny ways. Their personalities need arranging in group situations. They need pretty predictable things that actually can be ammended, like uncrowded access to food and water. Then they are happy.
Posted by sigismund on July 2, 2011, at 1:17:19
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 22:37:25
We don't use ammended, but I am pleased to hear that conditions with chickens can be.
Nice word, 'ammended'. There's that older English thing.
I'm so prone to thinking nothing can be ammended.
Even spellcheck doesn't recognise it. I like it even more.
Posted by sigismund on July 2, 2011, at 1:21:20
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 22:37:25
> It is so soothing.
That is partly because they are in cages and not roaming about presenting me with problems that are insoluble or easily made worse.
You seem very calm.
Posted by floatingbridge on July 2, 2011, at 13:05:57
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on July 2, 2011, at 1:21:20
> > It is so soothing.
>
> That is partly because they are in cages and not roaming about presenting me with problems that are insoluble or easily made worse.
>
> You seem very calm.I'm not :-/
I had to restart xanax stop gap. It has been beyond belief. I will never again underestimate the power of anxiety to drive someone out of their mind.
I can barely post. Hopefully will be back soon. I really like you.
Posted by sigismund on July 2, 2011, at 18:28:01
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by floatingbridge on July 2, 2011, at 13:05:57
So you are just on Xanax as far as benzos go?
I find Xanax so rocky. Valium is an inferior effect but this is made up for by the evenness of it.
I can get by on 5mg Valium a day and 300mg gabapentin at nights with lots of TCM things.
Once you have had anxiety exacerbated by the treatment for it....the dependence and rebound, the withdrawal......it doesn't seem worth worrying about what you used to worry about, so in this sense the drug treatment is effective.
Some people you just feel at home with.
Posted by floatingbridge on July 2, 2011, at 19:41:08
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by floatingbridge on July 2, 2011, at 13:05:57
Well, they gave me xanax .5 3x a day as needed. Needed. I was able to post after after one dose. I think Valium would be good, agreed, but I could barely talk to the doctor :-/ It's just till Tuesday.
I had an unprecedented attack yesterday and have not fully recovered. Hours and hours. I started stuttering. I have never and still have been. I had to drive and was so overcome. The streets were full of police for the holiday. I became afraid they would stop me and take me. I knew it wasn't accurate thinking. I watched all this happen, but couldn't control it. It's new territory and it ain't pretty.
I know I'll recover. But it's kinda breaking me up. I know why it's scary to be scared for me because it is an animal sense of being prey.
Thank you for the down home acknowledgment.
Posted by floatingbridge on July 3, 2011, at 13:07:22
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on July 2, 2011, at 18:28:01
> So you are just on Xanax as far as benzos go?
>
> I find Xanax so rocky. Valium is an inferior effect but this is made up for by the evenness of it.
>
> I can get by on 5mg Valium a day and 300mg gabapentin at nights with lots of TCM things.
>
> Once you have had anxiety exacerbated by the treatment for it....the
dependence and rebound, the withdrawal......it doesn't seem worth worrying about what you used to worry
about, so in this sense the drug treatment is effective.
>
> Some people you just feel at home with.sigi, the xanax restart is helping. My last post was pretty alarming :-/ Sorry.
5mg of Valium, is just fine in a compromised world. Yes the withdrawal/rebound/dependence thing. I remember (I think) you scaling back, and glad you sound like you landed on your feet.
So, I did make it out to the henhouse this morning. I have a chair there. They are
still the funniest, most endearing creatures. They are molting, which to the unknowing eye is quite unattractive. But beauty is in the beholder's eye.Yesterday my son brought his favorite chicken onto our deck during supper, and she had a corn cob which she relished. Now she is a funny-looking thing: a turken, or a naked-neck chicken. Bold as day, too, but not aggressive.
Posted by no rose garden on July 5, 2011, at 20:51:15
In reply to pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 10:15:44
I like the silkies...so pretty. I think we just had Rhode Island reds growing up....was hard to adjust to store eggs :/
Posted by floatingbridge on July 9, 2011, at 8:46:06
In reply to Re: pretty chickens in national geographic, posted by no rose garden on July 5, 2011, at 20:51:15
> I like the silkies...so pretty. I think we just had Rhode Island reds growing up....was hard to adjust to store eggs :/
>Yeah, I agree about store eggs. Our silkies lay delicious eggs. They are small, but have a greater sized yolk.
A friend has ducks. Ever have a duck egg? Very yum :)
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