Thats gunna be the most expensive omelette in the country. Just do what edible acres does with his chickens. Mixing a custom feed like that just for eggs is gunna put you in the poor house and is not sustainable or local.
Want to start your own low PUFA egg operation? 🥚🥚🥚
Came up with a reasonable starting place for feed, using #Grok, by researching the wild jungle fowl's ancestral diet, then iterating to make a feed practical to create at scale for the average person and with low PUFA, moderate MUFA, high SFA.
- 50% dried insects (crickets or mealworms) for protein
- 20% chopped greens (clover or dandelion) for micronutrients
- 10% crushed berries or fruit scraps for sugars and vitamins
- 15% fat blend (75% coconut oil, 25% macadamia nut oil) for low-PUFA fats
- 5% crushed eggshells, limestone, or oyster shell (choose based on availability) for calcium
Source insects and greens from local U.S. farms, berries or scraps from markets, coconut oil from distributors, macadamia oil from Hawaiian growers, and eggshells, limestone, or oyster shell from local suppliers or your flock. Mix dry components, blend oils to avoid clumping, add fresh greens daily.
Cheers.
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Would you mind sharing what Edible Acres is doing, or where I can find more information about him?
Check him out on youtube. Its mostly food scraps he gets from locsl restaurants
Love the idea of saving food scraps for the chickens.
There are five percent or less restaurants that dont use seed oils in their kitchen. I suppose I could ask those restaurants that dont use seed oils.
Unneccessary extra limiting factor. Just get the system roling and their diet will mostly be made up of worms from the composting waste once you get it rolling.
Exploring coop designs and builds. Going to build a coop this fall
As someone who has failed hard at birds, i have a lot of opinions on this. I am good at pigs and ruminates but chickens seem to be incredibly difficult where we live. All that to say, if you want to chat about it, let me know. My latest design is based off of 4 prior each with failures in their own way.