Eggs

[Maria Bohle]

No, an 8 foot high fence only protects us from two legged predators. I watched the fox climb the corner post of one of my poultry pens in about 2 seconds. Foxes climb fences and posts and trees faster than a cat can. We had a covered coop with a dozen ducks and some turkeys. The netting was not tied down in one of the corners, fox went in, Killed two of the largest ducks, and climbed out of the hole which was just big enough to get that duck body through it. We could see where it dropped the duck by the feather pile on the ground. We secured that hole, but it found another and killed 6 more before we finally secured the whole pen. Racoons and opossums also climb, and the hawks just pop in when they feel like it.

Maria

[Tanya Marquette]

They certainly do deserve their reputation as bright and sneaky

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[Fran Sheffield]

Catching and boxing 150 hens would keep anyone fit! I'm pleased we only had a handful.

Our hen shed had mesh across the top so the fox was not able to get at them once we meshed the periphery.

Daytime free-ranging was not too much of a problem until they discovered that the adjoining acres had lots of lovely seedling beds and seedlings. Our neighbours were not happy! We eventually had to keep them within their pen all day and both of us, humans and hens, were miserable.

[Fran Sheffield]

I wonder if potentised fox would clear a fox problem as it did with these rabbits?
http://homeopathyplus.com.au/homeopathy ... i-germany/

You'd have to catch one first.

FRan.

[Shannon Nelson]

Cholesterol is also the substrate for Vitamin D and also or all of the steroid hormones. If we don't eat it, we just have to make it!

[Shannon Nelson]

Oh but some people *do* toss the yolks! Some restaurants sell "omelets" made only from scrambled whites (with added veggies or whatever), for people who are on a "cholesterol reducing" diet. Unfortunately YES some people do toss the yolks! Yep, reductionist and also REALLY BAD SCIENCE, oh well.
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[Tanya Marquette]

But you can purchase fox urine or other predator urines and try to potentate them.

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[Shannon Nelson]

Sounds delicious! Unfortunately I am apparently intolerant to some *protein* part of dairy -- even raw organic, and even goat, and (sob) even kefir. But now I sometimes do something similar (not usually quite as deliciously elaborate, tho) using coconut milk instead of kefir, which is also very tasty. But cod liver oil, wow, I have to say I would never have thought nor dared to put *that* into a smoothie! Doesn't it taste awfully fishy no matter how much you dilute it….?
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[Tanya Marquette]

I also recall that cholesterol is necessary for the health of cell walls.

Further, the good/bad cholesterol is an improper dichotomy. My understanding is that there is a cyclical process in the body
where one turns to the other and then is recycled again. You cannot have one without the other.

Once again, the pharma industry has taken a piece of the truth and tried to subvert it to sell billions of dollars of toxic drugs.

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[Tanya Marquette]

Fearmongering works and makes fortunes to boot.

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