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A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm

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33 pointsPaulHoule7 comments

Interesting. I have been feeding my chickens ground flax seed and pecans (there are a lot of pecan orchards in the area so it's easy to get old nuts which I just smash and let the chickens pick through them). I don't have any quantitative data but I'm hopeful it produces healthier eggs. At minimum it produces very tasty eggs.

  If one in three households had enough chickens to eat your kitchen scraps, there would not be an egg industry in the United States. It would be completely non-essential. -- https://x.com/JoelSalatin/status/1984757129463337063

I'm thinking of taking him up on it.

That’s sort of a tautology. If enough non-industrial agents had anything, there would not be an industry. Says nothing about whether that would be desirable or efficient to live among millions of residential chickens.

It's allowed in our CC&Rs, where pigs are not, because it causes very little nuisance (without roosters).

In the right place and time, rooster chicks would make excellent invasive python bait. Just a thought.

I have noticed (with my intergenerational, perpetual flock) that different behaviors come and go. There seems to be a current one where if I feed them mixed scratch grains then when it's rainy they eat the corn and leave the wheat / barley to sprout before eating. I wish they wouldn't, it attracts rats!

This is great, but we must be quite close to a decent synthetic milk by now? It's just water, fats, lactose (possibly optional) and some proteins - no structure to worry about. It would cut out a lot of unnecessary steps.

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