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Raising BackYard Chickens
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Debate on food, free range and egg quality...
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<blockquote data-quote="Perris" data-source="post: 25956927" data-attributes="member: 502102"><p>I don't think the only options are all or nothing. I certainly don't embrace ignorance, and I have little time for those who do. </p><p></p><p>I have found it useful to think about quantities in terms of 'enough', 'too little' or 'too much', using 'about' and e.g. body parts for size guides rather than the false precision of grams and percents. Lab studies are useful, and data in quantity can be very informative - I was a huge fan of Rausing, RIP - but it's only one info stream. There are many others. There is a great deal of collective, combined wisdom, i.e. distilled experience, in old agricultural and poultry manuals, including, or perhaps especially, those written before people started counting the handful of particularly obvious and easy to quantify variables, like number of eggs laid or cheapest feedstuff, and ignoring the rest, like resilience to stress and disease, foraging ability, predator awareness, natural lifespan etc.. There's also a lot of what we now consider nonsense of course. That's why we need to think about what we read, and not just parrot it with as little comprehension as a parrot has of what's it's repeating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perris, post: 25956927, member: 502102"] I don't think the only options are all or nothing. I certainly don't embrace ignorance, and I have little time for those who do. I have found it useful to think about quantities in terms of 'enough', 'too little' or 'too much', using 'about' and e.g. body parts for size guides rather than the false precision of grams and percents. Lab studies are useful, and data in quantity can be very informative - I was a huge fan of Rausing, RIP - but it's only one info stream. There are many others. There is a great deal of collective, combined wisdom, i.e. distilled experience, in old agricultural and poultry manuals, including, or perhaps especially, those written before people started counting the handful of particularly obvious and easy to quantify variables, like number of eggs laid or cheapest feedstuff, and ignoring the rest, like resilience to stress and disease, foraging ability, predator awareness, natural lifespan etc.. There's also a lot of what we now consider nonsense of course. That's why we need to think about what we read, and not just parrot it with as little comprehension as a parrot has of what's it's repeating. [/QUOTE]
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