Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Daron Page <dagwood008@yahoo.com>]

Message: 13
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:00:34 +0000
From: Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Maggots for poultry feed
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take a look at this it is a simular process, but the BSF is 
not a pest like the house fly
 http://tinyurl.com/9jzww

> 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
-- 
Harvey in northern
 Va
www.themodernhomestead.us
  

Soon to be Texas E-Shiper
S.E. of Dallas,mild winters,(long)hot and humid summers
Daron

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