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Laser laser@primal.net 4 months ago
Want to start your own low PUFA egg operation? 🥚🥚🥚 Came up with a reasonable starting place for feed, using #Grok, by researching the wild jungle fowl's ancestral diet, then iterating to make a feed practical to create at scale for the average person and with low PUFA, moderate MUFA, high SFA. - 50% dried insects (crickets or mealworms) for protein - 20% chopped greens (clover or dandelion) for micronutrients - 10% crushed berries or fruit scraps for sugars and vitamins - 15% fat blend (75% coconut oil, 25% macadamia nut oil) for low-PUFA fats - 5% crushed eggshells, limestone, or oyster shell (choose based on availability) for calcium Source insects and greens from local U.S. farms, berries or scraps from markets, coconut oil from distributors, macadamia oil from Hawaiian growers, and eggshells, limestone, or oyster shell from local suppliers or your flock. Mix dry components, blend oils to avoid clumping, add fresh greens daily. Cheers.
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Brisket brisket@nostrplebs.com 4 months ago
I don't think chickens are worth the effort. I have seen someone do it with massive compost piles and a tractor though. Pigs are incredible converters of excess plant calories into meat. My aim is resilience from supply shocks as well as low pufa meat. This summer I should be able to take my Taro & Casava production up a notch. I'll soon see of it's enough to raise a few pigs, should be interesting.
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AU9913 auggie@nakaMOtown.com 4 months ago
Thats gunna be the most expensive omelette in the country. Just do what edible acres does with his chickens. Mixing a custom feed like that just for eggs is gunna put you in the poor house and is not sustainable or local.
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elsat elsat@habla.news 2 months ago
Love the idea of saving food scraps for the chickens. There are five percent or less restaurants that dont use seed oils in their kitchen. I suppose I could ask those restaurants that dont use seed oils.
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AU9913 auggie@nakaMOtown.com 2 months ago
As someone who has failed hard at birds, i have a lot of opinions on this. I am good at pigs and ruminates but chickens seem to be incredibly difficult where we live. All that to say, if you want to chat about it, let me know. My latest design is based off of 4 prior each with failures in their own way.
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