I had to write about another bloody nightmare myself today. My Substack publisher buttons were playing up so I was very late getting it out. I wrote about Fentanyl.... ghastly subject but we need to know... here it is, brace yourself!
Me too - escaped form the city two years ago. Tried planting out the back garden last year and did ok with peas, beans, fruit trees and bushes, plus potatoes and rhubarb. Combination of marauding hens and awful weather put paid to the rest but trying again this year. I even got a greenhouse! It's not actually up yet, but next week I am determined to get going. My hens are just regular red hens, ex-battery farm. We used to have bantams when I was younger but Il love these red ladies, and they just lay and lay. And poop....
LOL. i know my neighbor has some reds but not sure what the rest of them are. My hubby wants me to get a green house but for now I am doing my work in the garage. If we get hit with a famine (not if but when) I don't want my stuff outside. I am also trying to do portable gardens. I have 6 grow boxes and bought some grow bags. This way I can protect my crops from the neighbors who will become our enemy in bad times. I have tried to organize my neighbors so when the time comes we work together instead of against each other but they think I am nuts. Oh well we will see who is nuts, now won't we??
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been able to produce antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in hen eggs. Antibodies harvested from eggs might be used to treat COVID-19 or as a preventative measure for people exposed to the disease. The work was published July 9 in the journal Viruses.
“The beauty of the system is that you can produce a lot of antibodies in birds,” said Rodrigo Gallardo, professor in poultry medicine, Department of Population Health and Reproduction at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. “In addition to a low cost to produce these antibodies in hens, they can be updated very fast by using updated antigens to hyperimmunize hens, allowing protection against current variant strains.”
Birds produce a type of antibody called IgY, comparable to IgG in humans and other mammals. IgY does not cause allergy or set off immune reactions when injected into humans. IgY appears both in birds’ serum and in their eggs. As a hen lays about 300 eggs a year, you can get a lot of IgY, Gallardo said.
Gallardo and colleagues immunized hens with two doses of three different vaccines based on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein or receptor binding domain. They measured antibodies in blood samples from the hens and in egg yolks three and six weeks after the last immunization.
Purified antibodies were tested for their ability to block coronavirus from infecting human cells at the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at George Mason University in Virginia.
Both eggs and sera from immunized hens contained antibodies that recognized SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies from serum were more effective in neutralizing the virus, probably because there is more antibody in blood overall, Gallardo said.
Gallardo is working with colleagues Daria Mochly-Rosen at Stanford University and Michael Wallach, University of Technology, Sydney, to develop the egg-based antibody technology. The team hopes to deploy these antibodies in a preventative treatment such as a spray, that could be used by people at high risk of exposure to coronavirus.
Additional authors on the paper are Emily Aston, UC Davis Department of Animal Science; Aarthi Narayanan, National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases; and Sofia Egaña-Labrin, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The work was supported by the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis, Stanford University and poultry producers in the state of California.
I love reading your stories and I was so excited to hear the egg thing. It did seem to be one more reason - the best - for them to be messing with the chickens, but as far as I can find, they are planning on messing with the chickens even more. You are right - we need our own hens! I bought four rescue hens last year. Beautiful girls, and such lovely eggs.
I am a city girl gone country and haven't a clue about growing food or raising chickens. But I am trying to catch up and learning. I am going to start my first seedlings next week. Making my own seed starter and planting soil. My neighbor has chickens. They are moving in a few months and they said we could have their chickens so I am trying to figure out how to care for them. If they change their mind then I will get my own. Any recommendations on the breed I should get? I am not a fan of getting my hands dirty and worry about cleaning up their poop. But I am going to have to pull up my big girl panties and suck it up.
Like the little dog yapping...just ignore those WEF toads and their sick children.
Kala Fontanilla is very convincing, but it’s a parody on wanna-be communist teachers. https://twitter.com/kalifontanilla/status/1625880966798491651?s=46&t=Y-87qY68LeBrin1bUKBpVA
I had shared this video on my substack today that went out at 6am. I had included this video and one other.
🤣😂🤣😂 Oh Madelaine! I nearly choked! Too funny! 🤣😂
Good grief.... every link is a bloody nightmare! Thanks Karen xx
Sorry. I wish there was good news but.....you know.
I had to write about another bloody nightmare myself today. My Substack publisher buttons were playing up so I was very late getting it out. I wrote about Fentanyl.... ghastly subject but we need to know... here it is, brace yourself!
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/fentanyl-a-synthetic-opioid-being
Ah I wish I had a garage to do that...
Me too - escaped form the city two years ago. Tried planting out the back garden last year and did ok with peas, beans, fruit trees and bushes, plus potatoes and rhubarb. Combination of marauding hens and awful weather put paid to the rest but trying again this year. I even got a greenhouse! It's not actually up yet, but next week I am determined to get going. My hens are just regular red hens, ex-battery farm. We used to have bantams when I was younger but Il love these red ladies, and they just lay and lay. And poop....
LOL. i know my neighbor has some reds but not sure what the rest of them are. My hubby wants me to get a green house but for now I am doing my work in the garage. If we get hit with a famine (not if but when) I don't want my stuff outside. I am also trying to do portable gardens. I have 6 grow boxes and bought some grow bags. This way I can protect my crops from the neighbors who will become our enemy in bad times. I have tried to organize my neighbors so when the time comes we work together instead of against each other but they think I am nuts. Oh well we will see who is nuts, now won't we??
Hi Karen - great stories, but the eggs against covid is sadly not as good as it looks. I checked on the UC Davis research paper (https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19//news/covid-19-antibodies-eggs) and found this:
COVID-19 Antibodies From Eggs
by Andy Fell July 13, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been able to produce antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in hen eggs. Antibodies harvested from eggs might be used to treat COVID-19 or as a preventative measure for people exposed to the disease. The work was published July 9 in the journal Viruses.
“The beauty of the system is that you can produce a lot of antibodies in birds,” said Rodrigo Gallardo, professor in poultry medicine, Department of Population Health and Reproduction at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. “In addition to a low cost to produce these antibodies in hens, they can be updated very fast by using updated antigens to hyperimmunize hens, allowing protection against current variant strains.”
Birds produce a type of antibody called IgY, comparable to IgG in humans and other mammals. IgY does not cause allergy or set off immune reactions when injected into humans. IgY appears both in birds’ serum and in their eggs. As a hen lays about 300 eggs a year, you can get a lot of IgY, Gallardo said.
Gallardo and colleagues immunized hens with two doses of three different vaccines based on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein or receptor binding domain. They measured antibodies in blood samples from the hens and in egg yolks three and six weeks after the last immunization.
Purified antibodies were tested for their ability to block coronavirus from infecting human cells at the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at George Mason University in Virginia.
Both eggs and sera from immunized hens contained antibodies that recognized SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies from serum were more effective in neutralizing the virus, probably because there is more antibody in blood overall, Gallardo said.
Gallardo is working with colleagues Daria Mochly-Rosen at Stanford University and Michael Wallach, University of Technology, Sydney, to develop the egg-based antibody technology. The team hopes to deploy these antibodies in a preventative treatment such as a spray, that could be used by people at high risk of exposure to coronavirus.
Additional authors on the paper are Emily Aston, UC Davis Department of Animal Science; Aarthi Narayanan, National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases; and Sofia Egaña-Labrin, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The work was supported by the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis, Stanford University and poultry producers in the state of California.
Thanks for the information.
I love reading your stories and I was so excited to hear the egg thing. It did seem to be one more reason - the best - for them to be messing with the chickens, but as far as I can find, they are planning on messing with the chickens even more. You are right - we need our own hens! I bought four rescue hens last year. Beautiful girls, and such lovely eggs.
I am a city girl gone country and haven't a clue about growing food or raising chickens. But I am trying to catch up and learning. I am going to start my first seedlings next week. Making my own seed starter and planting soil. My neighbor has chickens. They are moving in a few months and they said we could have their chickens so I am trying to figure out how to care for them. If they change their mind then I will get my own. Any recommendations on the breed I should get? I am not a fan of getting my hands dirty and worry about cleaning up their poop. But I am going to have to pull up my big girl panties and suck it up.