I have yet to find a genuine source of UK-based 100% pastured fowl. Almost all fowl in the UK is raised on a 100% grain-filled diet, with a few, like some geese, raised partially on a grass-fed diet.  It's always explained that, in order to lay enough eggs per season, even the geese must be fed some  grains.

When women eat grain, their monthly periods eventually become heavy and closer together, say every twenty-one to twenty-six days rather than the normal every twenty-eight to thirty-five days and for five to nine days at a time rather than one to two days at a time.  I can see grain in humans causing more eggs, more frequently and earlier earlier in the cycle, yet dwindling off shortly after, say age thirty rather than say fifty-five and needing to have the affected improperly nourished parts removed.

I would think it's the same in chickens.  They want eggs fast, then as for the bird being fully healthy to an old age, they could care less.

Noun   1.   gizzard - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
"gastric mill", ventriculus

Chickens are omnivores.  I've had chickens, and they will eat Anything.  They especially like chasing after small and moving critters.

So, chicken Can eat grain.  To digest grain, they need to ingest grit, sand or pebbles.  I think this confuses chicken raisers to give then grain as grit.  I don't think it's necessary.  I could be wrong.  I'll come back to this thread when I know more.

Great to have you with us!

I go both ways.  But then the inuit had plenty of fat.  The plains indians could selectively kill older fat buffalo, and eat all the marrow, tongue, brains, kidney fat that they would have in every animal.  There weren't other sources of carbs out on the plains.  It is the indians living in the woods where buffalo didn't roam that I wonder about.  Deer, for instance usually don't have much fat on them.  But then again, there aren't too many carbs in the woods year around.  People do mention dried acorns and berries, and some roots.  But for roots, they had to be cooked.  So how did they exist before fire/cooking?

    Maybe they drank the animals' blood when they killed it.  Blood is supposed to have a high concentration of Vitamin D, which has fat I believe.  Blood doesn't seem to have fat to me, but it must.  Wild animals in cold weather may have a lot more fat in their blood.  Maybe they wouldn't have to drink it all right away.  Another link I found on the forum here said blood can be allowed to dry in bowls and then eaten.

Same happened with the detoxes I had in the first 2-3 years of the diet, they would just occur randomly without warning every 2 to 4 months(the only exception was the first time I used edible clay when a detox happened almost immediately after).

    Which clays did you use, and how did you use them?  Some are raw, some not, etc.

so I recently moved a few months ago and so far have a bed in the bedroom and another room with a desk, chair, and bookcase. the living room and connecting dining room are completely empty except for a lamp, and my dog and I use this space for indoor soccer on rainy days/dark evenings. I think it's far more fun than the conventional, though I'm not sure what my mom is going to think when she visits at the holidays, lol.

Your thoughts on furnishings?

    I've pretty much always preferred to sit and sleep on the floor (no carpet).  Thanks for bringing this up.  It's a good way to help establish health and just feels right. 

    Hopefully your mom will like running around playing indoor soccer with your dog!  After a time, my mom liked sleeping on the floor better than me.  Incredible, as she used to scold me for it.  She always made sure there were nice linens, etc, but a floor just seemed better to me.   

Here's a sample daily menu, have I got the figures right?

Moderately active
159 lbs         
2560 calories/day according to http://nutrition.bizcalcs.com/Calculator.asp?Calc=Daily-Metabolism

breakfast/lunch   
1/4 lb   bison 164 calories   
.09 lb   GF beef suet   335 cals.
tap water   
         
Supper   
1 lb           bison   656 calories
.35 lb   GF beef suet   1341 cals.
2 oz         chicken liver or high meat 64 cals.
nonsparkling mineral water
         
Occasional snacks/dessert/variety:
beef jerky with tallow      
occasional raw eggs, venison, sashimi, wild clams, etc.

    Thank you.  Cool seeing a day's menu.  I think of going ZC, but this makes me feel like I have a better picture of what I may eat.

This is the first time I am working somewhere with a 'break room' that people actually contribute to daily. I'm used to the coffee, tea, and water, but this is crazy!, even for SAD!  I can smell the sugar from around the corner!... especially on holidays, you wouldn't believe it! You name it, it's in there!

    I'd believe it.  When I was getting diagnose with lupus, I munched on things like bags of organic raw spinach in breakroom, while another lady who had no physical deficit claimed she has "stomach lupus" and was bringing in homemade white flour white sugar cookies, eating commercial junk brand chocolate, commercial whitebread/commercial cooked ham sandwiches and drinking coffee claiming her diet had nothing to do with the state of her health and she would snidely ask me if I was just trying to live forever.  She did eventually apologize to me for lots of comments like that (in case you don't know cooked protein of just about any kind including flour causes problems for most "lupies").

    Getting back to mother topic, when I started eating raw meat, although the raw part seemed strange to my Mother, she was ever so grateful "I came to my senses" and started eating meat.

If I get a cramp, I find that eating raw meat quickly resolves it. Potassium supplements work even faster (I also chewed them to speed up the absorption--warning: they're salty tasting), but I know they're frowned upon here and I also try to avoid them where possible.  Bananas never worked for me, interestingly.

    Bananas never helped me with anything either.  Raw meat resolves pain for me, not sure about cramps.  It resolves what I can only describe as nitrogen bubble type pains.  It resolves them fast.  Also, I think it is true, that some edemas can be from protein deficiency, and raw meat delivers the best protein to me and it already comes with all the right forms of the right combination of nutrients to assist it helping me.  I was a little swollen for a couple of years, and when I started eating (R)AF it resolved in a couple of weeks, but occasionally it happens again now (when I go off diet).

Do infants know intuitively not to eat raw honey or is the risk eliminated by a healthy system produced by RPD eating from conception? Wouldn't it be better to be on the safe side in this case and not let even an Instincto-dieting infant eat raw honey?

    Doesn't av give all babies unheated honey?  My Mom gave me honey as a newborn, if I'm not mistaken, and I didn't get botulism nor colic, and never got pneumonia as a child nor flu nor the childhood diseases nor pollen allergies.  I was healthy till they gave me milk and cookies in school.  I believe cooked honey causes botulism.  Honey is delicate.  It should never be warmed above about ninety-five degrees fahrenheit.  I didn't give mine honey, as I was vegetarian at the time.

That's interesting William.  I do seem to recall that liver was one of the foods that some African women would pre-chew prior to feeding it to infants.

    With the carbs that are in liver, pre-chewing would likely reduce those, no?

    Cooked liver turns green colored on the surface almost like the Statue of Liberty, if it sits out a couple hours.  I've had raw liver for months.  Mine has never turned green yet.  I wonder if it's like av's study with the dogs, himself, swordfish and mercury he wrote up in a newsletter of his a couple of years ago.

    Cooked meat just closes my throat up before it can go to my stomach.  Meat has to be raw for me.  I had to drink tons when I was a kid, between bites, trying to get the meat down my throat.  It wasn't food; because it didn't do anything good for me.

    When I was on whole vegan foods, my skin's dry and oiliness was very uneven and I had to use a lot of (natural) lotion to make it normal each day and usually several times per day.  If I stick to my present diet, so far haven't needed any kind of lotion, cream or gloss.