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The bugs are raised on chicken feed or cat feed? I don't understand where the cheap protein is coming from? What is generating it? Surely they are just taking the protein that is in the feed you supply, and that has to be more expensive then just giving the chickens the feed in the first...

So do you do this just because the chickens have fun or is there any other reason?

Can I ask what are the economics here? You supply the roaches with catfood, heat and occasional fruit? Is buying the catfood for the roaches more economical than using the money for chicken feed? Which is cheaper to produce, roaches or meal worms?

They just don't seem to use welded mesh here in Bulgaria. Finding anything here can be an adventure! Very very few big stores and almost no chains of stores, usually you find that someone has what you need in a locked up garage round the back of some soviet era appartments somewhere! But so...

Sorry I meant moveable coops, ones I move every day onto fresh ground.

Been looking at a lot of chicken coops on here and most don't seem to have anything to stop foxes digging under the walls of the run part. Do you think this isn't needed? Here I can only get chain link fencing or very weak thin hexagonal chicken wire, so I have gone with the chain link and I...

If you do a search, someone has already posted some great photos and info on breeds. The main one is the shuman black, a snappy black with very scarlet comb number!

I see there are already a few members here from Bulgaria, I am English but moved to Bulgaria four years ago. I missed chickens terribly during our years while moving over here and getting settled, went back into keeping them last year but had a bad fox problem over the winter so now have them...