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Laser laser@primal.net 11 months ago
The varieties of chickens we have today, which are selectively bred to trade off flavor/nutrition for mass/weight, require supplemental feed. They can't survive off grazing alone. The book 'The Dorito Effect', which I highly recommend, has a very good history on this. It's a good, as Angel Acres is, to attempt to reduce second hand linoleic acid in eggs by expirementing with different blends of supplemental feed. Maybe older varieties of chickens can be reengineered this way, over time. image
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AU9913 auggie@nakaMOtown.com 11 months ago
If you check out edible acres chickens on YouTube, his setup is basically to take vegetable scraps, let the chickens pick through them, that composts in place, as he turns it, they eat the worms and bugs in the compost, then he gives them small amounts of organic grains from nearby farms. I think that seems to be as close to a wild chicken diet. But I do think using chickens as garbage disposals for our food waste is the best use of that resource, meat scraps especially.
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AU9913 auggie@nakaMOtown.com 11 months ago
Wonder if I should test some of the pork from my pigs, we weren't feeding the pigs soy, instead it was distiller grains for the protein. Everyone has said the fat is the sweetest they've tasted.
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Brisket brisket@nostrplebs.com 4 months ago
That looks really cool! There'd be quite the demand for low pufa pork & chicken. Would love to know what's in their "Low P" feed. Been thinking for a while now that I might be able to grow enough starches to feed pigs most of their energy. Taro, cassava, sugar cane & banana grow really easily here but I don't want to have to live on them day to day. Having a low P feed would make things more convenient.
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