Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Uriel <uriel@nasalam.org>]

Instead of slaughtering wild animals to grow maggots why not just grow 
them in your own feces.  They grow in it just fine too.
Uriel

Harvey Ussery wrote:
> > Aliza
> > who is looking in to making one of those maggot buckets for feeding broilers
> > this late summer."
> >
> >     
>
> Right on, Aliza! The info on the subject on my website at the moment is 
> minimal, but I will be writing an article on producing more of the 
> homestead's poultry feed for the next issue of Backyard Poultry. I could 
> post the section updating the maggot-breeding experiment, though, as 
> soon as the article is finished.
>
> Last year was the experimental trial run. This year the system is really 
> cranking: I have 5 buckets going most of the time. A buddy of mine who 
> is a trapper supplies me with "primary ingredient"--I honestly have lost 
>   count of the number of 30-35 pound beavers that have already been 
> cycled thru the buckets already this fly season. That's a *lot* of free 
> protein. And, after working out the kinks last year, odor has been 
> minimal, "processing" time amazingly fast.
>
> More later.
>
> ~Harvey
>