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Old 21-08-2008, 07:23 PM posted to sci.agriculture.poultry,alt.cooking-chat,alt.permaculture,rec.gardens,aus.gardens
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Default Egg-laying Chickens – supplementing their grain diet?

g'day gas bag,

you pretty much covered it all, except maybe to say give them all and
most kitchen scraps, no meat scraps generally but any other food stuff
you might throw out.

you will be needing a very large worm farm if you want to raise enough
worms as regular food for the chooks diets, so the regular home
kitchen farms i don't think will do the job ubnless you run about 4 or
5 or so of them. then all yor kitchen scraps will be going to the
worms instead of the chooks. unless you start collecting scraps from
your neighbours.

maybe collect material from your local vege' shop ie.,. cabbage and
lettuce leaves, carrot tops damaged fruit etc.,.


On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:20:23 -0700 (PDT), Gas Bag
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