Posted on 06/19/2023 6:52:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff
100% natural...loaded with protein, vitamins and oils.
(Excerpt) Read more at exoticnutrition.com ...
Also, I got bit on my hand by my ex-roommate’s cat (appropriately named Attila) and spent a week in the hospital, and nearly lost my hand after several surgeries. I had an infection, and when the Infectious Disease team was treating me, they kept asking me questions about contact with birds.
That did make me think on birds, for sure.
As for the cat, I didn’t really blame him. I lived with the guy for a year or two before I met my wife, and I liked his cat, we chummed around the house all the time.
Then, on New Year’s Eve, I was over at the house with my wife, and the cat came over, and I picked him up, rubbing his ears and such as I had always done, and he suddenly turned and nipped me.
It barely broke the skin on the back of my hand, and I just washed it with antiseptic soap and didn’t give it any more thought.
But around 4 AM, I woke up because my hand was killing me, and was unpleasantly surprised to see it had blown up to the size of a softball. New Years day, in the hospital, but, they gave me antibiotics and sent me home.
Apparently the cat’s incisor had penetrated my tendon sheath on the back of my hand, and I developed a pasteurella infection from the bacteria cats have on their teeth, very much like a staph infection.
Didn’t fix it. Over the next several months, I got it biopsied, drained, poked, and finally, they admitted me for a week and had me on a demerol drip for the pain, which was significant.
Anyway, my hand stayed on, and I have a cool looking Frankenstein scar running from my knuckles to my wrist...:)
Gotta make lemonade from lemons!
In the end, I didn’t really blame the cat. There were dozens of strange people around at that party, and I shouldn’t have picked him up to give him a rub even though I had done it hundreds of times before.
Anyone who allows an animal to live in their house and crap is a moron.
But that goes for everything you raise or grow yourself and eat off the vine.
“Fresh” food from the grocery is garbage in comparison, often shipped and stored for months.
Your first ripe tomato sandwich - heaven. Strawberries just picked - real sweetness that explodes. Squash and potatoes properly handled and stored - nothing like the bland crap from the stores. My wife can't wait for fresh lettuce and kale - everything has a texture, feel and taste that is breed out of varieties grown for groceries that only are concerned with ease of growth (pesticides) and storage. “Fresh food” from the grocery is just as processed as processed food and it is garbage. And don’t get me going about my fresh roasted chilis, onions, berries, fruit, melons, beans, corn and other greens that we grow!!!
Our one remaining chicken Henrietta starts complaining about 9:00AM every morning until I walk out and give her a handful of meal worms.
Great photo!
Isn’t this what they want us to eat?
They make great animal food for Chickens and aquaculture fish in the pond. And if you were like me as a kid, aquarium fish and lizards we would catch.
I love the meal worms. In the afternoon, I entice my girls to head into the coop by just shaking the bag. They come running from every corner of the property. Meal worms are like candy to chickens.
You and I will part ways on this subject then...:)
Yes! And I am a devotee of the Far Side, I love that particular cartoon...what a mind!
Birds eat worms. I see that in my back yard every morning.
Chickens are omnivores...they will pretty much eat ANYTHING!
Dried mealworms are what I give my ladies when they give me a full day’s lay (seven hens = seven eggs). Also, it is a nice treat when I am swapping feed brands because their regular brand is sold out. Mix those in with the feed and they will eat the feed to get to the next layer of worms!
Yep! I told my wife do NOT wear her regular shows into the chicken coop; take an old pair of shoes and wear those in there, because we have small grandkids and she could be tracking bad diseases in the house where those kiddos will be sitting, playing, dropping/picking up food, etc.
*regular shoes
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.