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What order do you take pills in?
If you take more than one kind of pill at a time, what order do you take the pills in?
In order of how important I think each medication is
In order of size: largest first
In order of size: smallest first
In color order
A secret, fifth option
I don’t take any pills regularly
So today I learned that not everybody throws back the whole handful at once and slams their water like they’re doing shots
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HELLO I would like to introduce you to my new best friend Antique Swedish Mechanical Bobbin Winder I Got On Ebay For A Quarter The Price It Usually Goes For Because It Looked Like Shit But All It Needed Was A Little Elbow Grease And WD-40:
She is heavy and clackity and spins oh so smooth and fast and I LOVE HER
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This is…..niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.
Oh, I was just reading about that last night! One resource you can check is the American Poultry Association- it has records of the history of breeds, and especially when those breeds were officially admitted to/recognized by the APA. For instance, the Barred Rock is a breed that was officially recognized in 1874, having been bred from the Dominique, a much older heritage breed.
My pet peeve with period-appropriate breeds is when they’re right but not appropriately matching the era’s standards. In the current poultry world, everything can be broadly divided into production and exhibition. For example, you have two chickens, both the same breed, let’s say Wyandotte, identical in color but one has been exclusively bred for superior egg production while the other more closely matches American Poultry Association’s established standards. In the case of the Wyandotte, the APA’s standards for that breed have been in place since the 1800s, matching generations of established breeding towards the ideal of the breed. Now, if you know the standard and see the production strain Wyandotte, you would notice obvious differences in body size, width, weight, height, and tail shape most noticeably. The exhibition strain hen is closer to what the average poultryman in the 19th Century would know and recognize.
Admittedly, this is in part because the exhibition standards are largely geared towards dual purpose breeds intended to provide both eggs and meat. Most of these breeds largely stopped being produced in large scale for meat, however, after the advent of the Cornish Cross (a four way terminal hybrid that does not breed true) in the 1950s.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the Cornish Cross absolutely revolutionized meat agriculture, particularly the sale of chicken. There is no other chicken breed, certainly no “heritage” (true-breeding) chicken breed, that comes close to the Cornish Cross in terms of converting feed into meat — to the point that if you do try to keep them alive long enough to reach breeding age, it’s actually difficult and potentially unethical to do. They’re usually slaughtered at a significantly younger age than other meat breeds, which also means that they require less feed overall to go from egg to broiler, significantly reducing the price of chicken meat worldwide.
Producing them, however, requires maintaining four separate lines: if you call them A, B, C, and D, you make a Cornish Cross by crossing lines A and B to make roosters, crossing lines C and D to make hens, and then crossing your AB roosters over your CD hens. For this reason, the Cornish Cross changed the social structure of meat chicken husbandry significantly: it made more financial sense for most people to either farm out breeding broilers (and just purchase day old chicks from hatcheries) or focus on breeding and farm out raising the chicks. Whiiiiiiiich if you know your agriculture history quickly becomes a recipe for really heinous monopolies, but I digress.
Point being, that leaves most of the traditionally dual purpose breeds out in the cold—a chicken that’s been selected for putting on weight quickly and efficiently isn’t as good at laying, usually, and vice versa. Most of these breeds survived largely in the hands of hobby keepers, hatcheries, and competition show breeders—and hobby keepers usually buy from hatcheries. Hatcheries make their money by selling day old chicks, so they tend to select for increased egg production and against devoting more energy to a more meaty focused end product. For this reason, “hatchery quality” dual purpose breeds have largely shifted towards a more egg - centered type over time, away from their historical meat function.
Now, I’ll actually argue strenuously that the exhibition-level Standard of Perfection version of a given chicken breed is not necessarily what any given historical person would associate with a chicken of that type, either. Lots of y'all following here are dog people, so metaphorically, an exhibition quality Barred Rock is kind of like a Golden Retriever bred and selected to win at conformation shows. You might take one hunting if you’re going, just as many exhibition breeders might eat culls and almost always eat eggs, but that’s not your priority in breeding.
For example, here’s a pair of Barred Rocks: a hatchery quality one first, and an exhibition quality one second.
You can see that the exhibition bird is heavier, but it’s also been selected for very intensely controlled, narrow barring, yellower skin, and a much more consistent comb type. There’s very little chance that a random chicken from even a hundred years ago would have been selected to that level of uniformity.
The other thing about historical chicken keeping is also that feed dynamics have changed tremendously at the same time that the Cornish Cross rose to breed supremacy. Because we now know chicken nutrition better than perhaps any other species on earth, modern chickens yield both more meat and more eggs than any historical chicken could come close to. Modern chickens are also going to be anachronistic in that they have generally had access to things like dewormer to control parasite loads. There’s really a limit to how anachronistic you can expect film producers, etc to get.
Personally, I would be happy if they’d just stop throwing in Production Reds literally everywhere it comes up.
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My animation of a flour sack. Words can’t express how proud I am of these 11 seconds.
I’m so delighted people are enjoying this so much. It was one of my very first animations in freshmen year, after bouncing balls. I was so excited that I just poured time and love into this little guy, and I’m so happy a lot of people like the tiny story I told.
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Today’s aesthetic is cassette futurism
gotta highlight this tag because YES
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hey does anyone know the best size enclosure for my new medieval knight? i want him to have enough space to wander around and go on quests
This is why inexperienced owners should never get a knight. For proper knight care you should have at LEAST a kingdom for him to roam in. Also, a lot of new owners overlook the fact that knights are social animals. If you just have one knight in your kingdom, he will live an incredibly unhappy life. You will need to provide him with at least one other knight to have homoerotic tension with while they quest together, or at least to miss and think about while on seperate quests. Preferrably, you should have at least as many knights as you do seats at the round table you should be providing for them. Its just so sad when people adopt knights without even considering their optimal habitat beforehand. ADOPT RESPONSIBLY!!!!
You should also consider investing in a Perlesvaus-brand self-rearranging forest. By working off of narrative logic rather than traditional geographical logic, it allows a theoretically infinite number of quests within an apparently-finite space. Excellent enrichment for your knights.
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its so shiddy when u have to convince yourself to do your hobbies. like, its fun, you like it, why cant you just do it. do it. do it. but what if…. mindless media consumption instead….
im so sorry to the seven thousand of you so far who relate
upset at the accuracy of these tags
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