- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
To me, even if Better Origin can't do it, it does seem like a scalable idea.
Aberystwyth are looking into it too: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2021/11/title-249053-en.html
Insects for Protein in Laying Hens.
- Thread starter SteveHants
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To me, even if Better Origin can't do it, it does seem like a scalable idea.
Aberystwyth are looking into it too: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2021/11/title-249053-en.html
- Location
- somerset
isn't packam on about mice having feelings, and how cruel trapping/poisoning them is ? Good luck with that, esp if he starts inc rats ! How long before the idiot starts on with 'insects' ?
some people are beyond reasoning with, unfortunately, some listen.
some people are beyond reasoning with, unfortunately, some listen.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Good old farmyard hens ate all sorts. Foraging in the fields, woods and the garden, ripping a cow pat or sheep turd apart to find some undigested grain, into the grain store for a feed, swallow down a mouse whole, out for a drink on the yard while uncle swilled the sprayer out, cleaned up the nuts round the cats dish. Find a nest in a stack. Not sure quite how old these are. Do they float? No. They’ll be right then. Then sometimes one would come out from the nettlebeds with ten chicks behind her. Replacements.
Nobody fretted over risk assessments.
Nobody fretted over risk assessments.
Dynamite_Matt
Member
Google meal worm farm.
I know of a few doing it to feed there pet chickens, seems very low maintanance once you have the right size sieves, great little project for kids.
A year or 2 ago there was a lot of talk about humans eating them..... most succesfull were blitzing them to a powder and using in place of some of the flour in bread/biscuits etc I believe somthing to do with brexit has now made it technically illegal for human consumption currently.
I know of a few doing it to feed there pet chickens, seems very low maintanance once you have the right size sieves, great little project for kids.
A year or 2 ago there was a lot of talk about humans eating them..... most succesfull were blitzing them to a powder and using in place of some of the flour in bread/biscuits etc I believe somthing to do with brexit has now made it technically illegal for human consumption currently.
mwj
Member
- Location
- Illinois USA
Perceived value sells a lot of expensive products.
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
You forgot the bit where you let them out in the morning and they all have a good look round the yard and their neighbours , to decide who is todays victim. Then they fall upon said bird stripping its feathers and often leaving it deadGood old farmyard hens ate all sorts. Foraging in the fields, woods and the garden, ripping a cow pat or sheep turd apart to find some undigested grain, into the grain store for a feed, swallow down a mouse whole, out for a drink on the yard while uncle swilled the sprayer out, cleaned up the nuts round the cats dish. Find a nest in a stack. Not sure quite how old these are. Do they float? No. They’ll be right then. Then sometimes one would come out from the nettlebeds with ten chicks behind her. Replacements.
Nobody fretted over risk assessments.