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Chickens – supplementing their grain diet?

My Brother has some Chickens in his backyard to lay Eggs. I have to be
honest and say that since Noah floated the Ark, I have been a hardcore
dedicated Egg-a-holic. And then some. Add some bacon/polish sausage/
chorizo sausage……and SWISS BROWN mushrooms……and it’s game on!
I particularly like Eggs where the yolks have a really rich orange
colour, and are full of flavour. At the moment, the Chickens are being
fed the proper Pellet Food from a local Grain & Fodder retailer, but I
am trying to “supplement” their diet to make their Eggs taste
absolutely A1. I don’t just want the Chooks’ diet to be “reasonably
good”…..I want it to be as close to perfect as possible. At the
moment, I am getting box load after box load of vegetable scraps from
some local grocers – and I am continuing with this. They mainly
contain lettuce and cabbage scraps, but there are often some carrots,
cauliflowers, avocadoes, etc. (Some of the more choice vegetables get
carefully “selected out” by my brother…..but that’s another matter
entirely) I also know that the Chickens go crazy over thistles and the
like.
Anyway, I heard somewhere or other that, along with LOTS of greens,
the addition of some protein to the Chickens’ diet can help boost the
flavour of their Eggs. So I thought of worms! I’ve recently set up an
ultra-basic compost pile by digging a very shallow hole in the Chicken
Yard, filling it with as many food scraps as I can lay my hands on,
watering them in, covering it with hessian, then watering the hessian.
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully. Once it reaches
this stage, I will simply remove the plastic tub and the hessian, and
let the Chooks go to town.
I am hoping for any and all advice, in regards to what I am doing
here, particularly with the worm-compost pile.
• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Chickens?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Worms?
Like I mentioned before, I want the Chooks to have the best diet
possible to give the Eggs the best flavour. As an aside, the Chickens
seem to dig and scratch about like nothing I have ever seen. Quite
funny to watch how they actually do this. I have even seem them sort
of “rub themselves about” in the dust in drier weather, and this is
VERY funny to watch. What is this they are doing? They often get quite
aggressive when other birds, such as doves and pigeons, try to eat
their food. They really are funny critters to watch. When we’re out
the back having wine and beers, and play the Stereo, the music really
has some sort of effect on them. They will often come over and jump up
on the garden table or on the Stereo. Weird.
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You may want to look at raising black soldier fly larvae.


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Chickens – supplementing their grain diet?

My Brother has some Chickens in his backyard to lay Eggs. I have to be
honest and say that since Noah floated the Ark, I have been a hardcore
dedicated Egg-a-holic. And then some. Add some bacon/polish sausage/
chorizo sausage……and SWISS BROWN mushrooms……and it’s game on!
I particularly like Eggs where the yolks have a really rich orange
colour, and are full of flavour. At the moment, the Chickens are being
fed the proper Pellet Food from a local Grain & Fodder retailer, but I
am trying to “supplement” their diet to make their Eggs taste
absolutely A1. I don’t just want the Chooks’ diet to be “reasonably
good”…..I want it to be as close to perfect as possible. At the
moment, I am getting box load after box load of vegetable scraps from
some local grocers – and I am continuing with this. They mainly
contain lettuce and cabbage scraps, but there are often some carrots,
cauliflowers, avocadoes, etc. (Some of the more choice vegetables get
carefully “selected out” by my brother…..but that’s another matter
entirely) I also know that the Chickens go crazy over thistles and the
like.
Anyway, I heard somewhere or other that, along with LOTS of greens,
the addition of some protein to the Chickens’ diet can help boost the
flavour of their Eggs. So I thought of worms! I’ve recently set up an
ultra-basic compost pile by digging a very shallow hole in the Chicken
Yard, filling it with as many food scraps as I can lay my hands on,
watering them in, covering it with hessian, then watering the hessian.
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully. Once it reaches
this stage, I will simply remove the plastic tub and the hessian, and
let the Chooks go to town.
I am hoping for any and all advice, in regards to what I am doing
here, particularly with the worm-compost pile.
• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Chickens?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Worms?
Like I mentioned before, I want the Chooks to have the best diet
possible to give the Eggs the best flavour. As an aside, the Chickens
seem to dig and scratch about like nothing I have ever seen. Quite
funny to watch how they actually do this. I have even seem them sort
of “rub themselves about” in the dust in drier weather, and this is
VERY funny to watch. What is this they are doing? They often get quite
aggressive when other birds, such as doves and pigeons, try to eat
their food. They really are funny critters to watch. When we’re out
the back having wine and beers, and play the Stereo, the music really
has some sort of effect on them. They will often come over and jump up
on the garden table or on the Stereo. Weird.


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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:20:23 -0700 (PDT), Gas Bag
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• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Chickens?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Worms?


I've long heard that coffee grounds are not good for worms. And here
is a link I found while researching the same thing primarliy for
self-sufficiency purposes:

http://www.lionsgrip.com/recipes.html


Hal
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You may want to look at raising black soldier fly larvae.


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sci.agriculture.poultry, alt.cooking-chat, alt.permaculture,
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Chickens – supplementing their grain diet?

My Brother has some Chickens in his backyard to lay Eggs. I have to be
honest and say that since Noah floated the Ark, I have been a hardcore
dedicated Egg-a-holic. And then some. Add some bacon/polish sausage/
chorizo sausage……and SWISS BROWN mushrooms……and it’s game on!
I particularly like Eggs where the yolks have a really rich orange
colour, and are full of flavour. At the moment, the Chickens are being
fed the proper Pellet Food from a local Grain & Fodder retailer, but I
am trying to “supplement” their diet to make their Eggs taste
absolutely A1. I don’t just want the Chooks’ diet to be “reasonably
good”…..I want it to be as close to perfect as possible. At the
moment, I am getting box load after box load of vegetable scraps from
some local grocers – and I am continuing with this. They mainly
contain lettuce and cabbage scraps, but there are often some carrots,
cauliflowers, avocadoes, etc. (Some of the more choice vegetables get
carefully “selected out” by my brother…..but that’s another matter
entirely) I also know that the Chickens go crazy over thistles and the
like.
Anyway, I heard somewhere or other that, along with LOTS of greens,
the addition of some protein to the Chickens’ diet can help boost the
flavour of their Eggs. So I thought of worms! I’ve recently set up an
ultra-basic compost pile by digging a very shallow hole in the Chicken
Yard, filling it with as many food scraps as I can lay my hands on,
watering them in, covering it with hessian, then watering the hessian.
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully. Once it reaches
this stage, I will simply remove the plastic tub and the hessian, and
let the Chooks go to town.
I am hoping for any and all advice, in regards to what I am doing
here, particularly with the worm-compost pile.
• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Chickens?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Worms?
Like I mentioned before, I want the Chooks to have the best diet
possible to give the Eggs the best flavour. As an aside, the Chickens
seem to dig and scratch about like nothing I have ever seen. Quite
funny to watch how they actually do this. I have even seem them sort
of “rub themselves about” in the dust in drier weather, and this is
VERY funny to watch. What is this they are doing? They often get quite
aggressive when other birds, such as doves and pigeons, try to eat
their food. They really are funny critters to watch. When we’re out
the back having wine and beers, and play the Stereo, the music really
has some sort of effect on them. They will often come over and jump up
on the garden table or on the Stereo. Weird.


Classic perennial of possible interest Russian broadleaf comfrey.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...&sa=X&oi=spell
&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Russian+Broadleaf+comfr ey&spell=1

Bill

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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.,.


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Chickens – supplementing their grain diet?

My Brother has some Chickens in his backyard to lay Eggs. I have to be
honest and say that since Noah floated the Ark, I have been a hardcore
dedicated Egg-a-holic. And then some. Add some bacon/polish sausage/
chorizo sausage……and SWISS BROWN mushrooms……and it’s game on!
I particularly like Eggs where the yolks have a really rich orange
colour, and are full of flavour. At the moment, the Chickens are being
fed the proper Pellet Food from a local Grain & Fodder retailer, but I
am trying to “supplement” their diet to make their Eggs taste
absolutely A1. I don’t just want the Chooks’ diet to be “reasonably
good”…..I want it to be as close to perfect as possible. At the
moment, I am getting box load after box load of vegetable scraps from
some local grocers – and I am continuing with this. They mainly
contain lettuce and cabbage scraps, but there are often some carrots,
cauliflowers, avocadoes, etc. (Some of the more choice vegetables get
carefully “selected out” by my brother…..but that’s another matter
entirely) I also know that the Chickens go crazy over thistles and the
like.
Anyway, I heard somewhere or other that, along with LOTS of greens,
the addition of some protein to the Chickens’ diet can help boost the
flavour of their Eggs. So I thought of worms! I’ve recently set up an
ultra-basic compost pile by digging a very shallow hole in the Chicken
Yard, filling it with as many food scraps as I can lay my hands on,
watering them in, covering it with hessian, then watering the hessian.
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully. Once it reaches
this stage, I will simply remove the plastic tub and the hessian, and
let the Chooks go to town.
I am hoping for any and all advice, in regards to what I am doing
here, particularly with the worm-compost pile.
• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Chickens?
• Certain foods that are particularly good or bad for the Worms?
Like I mentioned before, I want the Chooks to have the best diet
possible to give the Eggs the best flavour. As an aside, the Chickens
seem to dig and scratch about like nothing I have ever seen. Quite
funny to watch how they actually do this. I have even seem them sort
of “rub themselves about” in the dust in drier weather, and this is
VERY funny to watch. What is this they are doing? They often get quite
aggressive when other birds, such as doves and pigeons, try to eat
their food. They really are funny critters to watch. When we’re out
the back having wine and beers, and play the Stereo, the music really
has some sort of effect on them. They will often come over and jump up
on the garden table or on the Stereo. Weird.


In the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural History of Four Meals",
author Michal Pollan describes the routine of a super-efficient all-natural
farm in Virginia. The farmer rotates his fields with clock like precision
and the one process that might give guidance applicable to your situation
is the sequence of animals on a given field. First comes the cows. They
stay for a while eating the grass and dropping manure. Then the cows are
moved to the next field and the first field is left for a number of days.
This allows the cow flops to attract flies and develop a good crop of
maggots. Then the chickens are moved to the field where they happily peck
apart the flops, eat the maggots, and spread the manure in the process.

Consumers claim that this farmer's eggs and chickens are absolutely the
best to be had at any price. They happily pay a hefty premium and sometimes
travel long distances to obtain them.

Not that I'd expect you to invest in cows for your egg production but it
would pay to keep in mind that chickens really love their protein in the
form of insects and it does wonders for their taste and egg production.

--
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:56:38 -0400, John McGaw wrote:

Not that I'd expect you to invest in cows for your egg production but it
would pay to keep in mind that chickens really love their protein in the
form of insects and it does wonders for their taste and egg production.


Lol, I could just imagine the neighbours rection to having a cow in out
backyard.

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Use a proper text editor and you'll get a quicker response

I think it was Earth Garden that had a chook pen design that consisted of
central hen house with two attached pens. Basically you dumped all the
vegetable matter that you could (AMY vege matter in small pieces) into one
pen whilst they had the run of the other pen. Then you swapped. it might
have been a week about, it might have been longer (probably).

The idea ws that the worms built up in the pen and created compost safe
from the hens, then you'd allow the chooks into tractor it and eat the
worms, whilst boosting the worm population inthe other.

Personally, I'd also throw out all meat scraps as well as that brings
maggots,which the chooks will eat.


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Use a proper text editor and you'll get a quicker response

I think it was Earth Garden that had a chook pen design that consisted of
central hen house with two attached pens. Basically you dumped all the
vegetable matter that you could (AMY vege matter in small pieces) into one
pen whilst they had the run of the other pen. Then you swapped. it might
have been a week about, it might have been longer (probably).

The idea ws that the worms built up in the pen and created compost safe
from the hens, then you'd allow the chooks into tractor it and eat the
worms, whilst boosting the worm population inthe other.

Personally, I'd also throw out all meat scraps as well as that brings
maggots,which the chooks will eat.


Forget the maggots the chooks will eat the meat b4 the flies get a chance.






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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:06:21 +1000, mulligrub wrote:


Strewth, you wont have a cow but you will have the flies?
Something not quite right there :-p


Flies and spiders are bird food.
I also let wattles die from borers; more bird food.

We are now waiting for the local magpies to teach the new kitten who is
boss of the back yard.



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whereis the seeing-eye dog for the soon to be cat?


Well, if the cat is that stupid, so be it. Usually they realise that there
is no way they are going to succeed and that these characters hould be
left alone.

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Gas Bag writes:
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully.


You are starting in winter, so by Christmas if you're lucky.

A better way to grow worms is to get a pile of cow manure and leave it
undisturbed (away from the chooks). In a month or so it will start to
develop a healthy colony of earthworms, and you can gradually harvest
some to feed to the chooks.

Earthworms are different from compost worms.

• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?


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Gas Bag writes:
Then I have covered the whole pile with a plastic tub of sorts. The
hole I have dug in the ground is actually quite shallow, so most of
the food scraps are actually above ground, not below ground level. I
am assuming that in a week or so, this compost pile should be
absolutely writhing with masses of worms…..hopefully.


You are starting in winter, so by Christmas if you're lucky.

A better way to grow worms is to get a pile of cow manure and leave it
undisturbed (away from the chooks). In a month or so it will start to
develop a healthy colony of earthworms, and you can gradually harvest
some to feed to the chooks.

Earthworms are different from compost worms.


how is that?


• Any specific do’s or don’t’s?
• How long should the worms take to fill up the pile?


What's with all the binary characters?

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:12:22 -0600, hal wrote:


Earthworms are different from compost worms.


how is that?


There are many different species of earth worms.
Most, if not all, of the farmed compost/bait worms are not natives. These
all tend to be top feeders and need lots of food provided for best
growth/production.

AFAIK Australian native earth worms are a mixture including both top
top/mid range feeders in places with a deep leaf litter and deep worms
in other places. The deep worms are the ones that go deep into the
earth and thus bring up minerals from the sub soil to the top, when
they come up to the top to feed.

If you want highest production in your "worm farm" then get the compost
worms nd keep the feed up. If you want to improve deep drainage, then just
spread your organic matter around in little clumps. The deep worms are
slower,but they do aerate deep down. Also tend to be the big thick worms
you see around.
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:03:02 +1000, terryc
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:12:22 -0600, hal wrote:


Earthworms are different from compost worms.


how is that?


There are many different species of earth worms.
Most, if not all, of the farmed compost/bait worms are not natives. These
all tend to be top feeders and need lots of food provided for best
growth/production.

AFAIK Australian native earth worms are a mixture including both top
top/mid range feeders in places with a deep leaf litter and deep worms
in other places. The deep worms are the ones that go deep into the
earth and thus bring up minerals from the sub soil to the top, when
they come up to the top to feed.

If you want highest production in your "worm farm" then get the compost
worms nd keep the feed up. If you want to improve deep drainage, then just
spread your organic matter around in little clumps. The deep worms are
slower,but they do aerate deep down. Also tend to be the big thick worms
you see around.


most worms I've seen for sale as compost worms are called "red worms".
Most people around here call native earthworms "nightcrawlers" which
are much larger and not as red, although there are small red worms
that you can find in manure piles and such. So am I concluding
corrected that red worms are typically considered compost worms and
nightcrawlers are the deep worms, but both will work adequately for
decomposing your compost?

Hal
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