Chicken bones and fluoride

[Guest guest]

Just wanted to let you know that I got a chance to see a bone from a

chicken that was not exposed to fluoride (one of mine got killed by a

critter yesterday) and it was pink/white with not a trace of brown. We

give our hens rainwater and reverse-osmosis filtered water - they only

get fluoridated water when my husband waters them (rarely). So the

brown/grey bones from store chickens may well be indicators that

they've been given fluoridated water and accumulated it in their

bones.

That's going to make me think twice the next time I make stock - even

organic chickens may be given tap water - as far as I know there's no

regulation against it.

I also found out that if you want to wash feathers in the washer, make

sure the pillowcase is tied shut very very tightly! What a mess! (My

kids get me to pluck the dead hens so they can keep the feathers as

remembrances of the pets - weird, but true!)