Re: Chickens in dry areas - why not insects? was: how much melamine are you

[Guest guest]

hehe

I've been all through the raise everything yourself and it wore me out.

Take the chickens. Here we have about 200 hens. They run free if they

like as the fence has many, many chicken sized holes and others can

fly right over. Even with all the " eating out " we go through about 350

pounds of grain in 7-10 days. To raise that many worms, insects, etc

would require a lot of veggie matter. I would spend my days running

around to stores trying to talk them out of any rotting fruit and

vegetables their customers wouldn't buy. But wait! What about the

goats or hogs or the cows.... If I'm out rounding up chicken feed

who'd take care of them? And the egg deliveries...And the slaughtering

and Larry's lunch <G>

Guess it's kinda like buying your eggs instead of raising chickens in

the living room of your condo.

Can we tell who's the humbug this season?

Belinda

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> > I often wonder why people in dry climates don't just breed insects

> and worms

> > to feed their chickens? Is it just too gross?

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> > -Lana

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> > " There is nothing more useful than sun and salt. " - Latin proverb

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> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Parashis

> > <artpages@>wrote:

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> > > It's very dry here in California so my chicken lady's eggs are

> probably

> > > eating only grains.

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