SC - Fw: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Odd things that horses eat
Philippa Alderton
phlip at bright.net
Fri Jan 1 23:37:09 PST 1999
Anyone hear of this one?
Phlip
Caer Frig
Barony of the Middle Marches
Middle Kingdom
Southeastern Ohio
Phlip at bright.net
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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From: Iseultnel at aol.com <Iseultnel at aol.com>
To: sca-equine at dnaco.net <sca-equine at dnaco.net>
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Odd things that horses eat
>In a message dated 98-12-31 16:29:20 EST, Katherine writes:
>>
>> has anyone really read the side of commercially prepared horse feed??
>> Purina allegedly adds ground up feathers to up their protein, and Senior
>has
>> added fat...animal fat. That is just one type, check out the side of the
>> bags, and find out what something is..
>>
>Not too suprized at feathers as a feed stuff. I know that in period
>(Elizabethan, at least) "Chicken feather soup" was known. I know it was
a
>peasant dish. I am going to make the assumption that it was probably used
to
>get them through the dead of winter, when the rest of the meat, etc., was
>gone. Apparently, the feathers were boiled to extract the
protein/gelatin,
>and the resulting broth was consumed.
>(I keep trying to get up the nerve to try it, but, having been a vet tech,
I
>am WAY too aware of the nasties chickens carry. 8-P)
>
>Iseult
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