Anonymous ID: a3b07c May 6, 2018, 2:30 a.m. No.1316766   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6817 >>7046

An idea I came up with years ago, to add nutrition and flavor to homegrown eggs: Foxes made it necessary to keep my chickens enclosed, so to add protein to the feed, I surrounded the fencing with partial sheets of old plywood laid on the ground (with old tires on top to prevent blowing away, and keep good contact with the ground for natural moisture generation and retention). These make a perfect ecosystem for bugs and slugs (GOBS of them). Every day, when I went out for eggs, I'd bring a leaf rake… the chickens went nuts when they saw it… and I'd lift a board and flick a bunch of bugs through the wire. Feeding frenzy as the bugs tried to get back to the darkness and moisture under the wood.

 

Saved greatly on feed costs… they wouldn't touch the stuff until every bug had been eaten, and the area had been scoured for escapees.

 

Yolks the color of a late sunset, and rich flavor beyond description.

Anonymous ID: a3b07c May 6, 2018, 2:50 a.m. No.1316817   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>1316766

 

Should have added: If the environment under the boards gets overburdened, put a few sheets of newspaper and some lawn debris in there once in a while.

 

A good bug farmer makes a great chicken farmer!

Anonymous ID: a3b07c May 6, 2018, 8:35 a.m. No.1318163   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9811

>>1317046

 

Your calling them "my girls" convinces me you will take to bug husbandry quickly. It's fun learning what they like. Old tires look kind of hillbilly, but provide great thermal collection during colder weather.

 

To you, and the girls… Bon Appatit!