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    I made a rabbit app

    You can also earn a free membership by selling kits and transferring their records to the new owners through Hutch: http://support.barntrax.com/index.php?p=/discussion/227/hutch-referrals
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    I made a rabbit app

    Hutch has added the ability to sync your schedule with external calendar programs/apps. Just click the export button and enter your sync URL in your calendar. Sync your Hutch Schedule with your phone's calendar app and get text notifications for Rabbitry tasks and upcoming events. Works with...
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    I made a rabbit app

    We have had rabbits for over a decade, mostly for meat and fur production. We kept rabbit records on paper, just like most of the books tell you to. After several years, the paper started mounting up and it was difficult to get information to compare rabbits at a glance. For a while, we entered...
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    Mealworm farming

    Don't drill holes, find a tray that has bigger holes already (or drill bigger holes) and cover the bottom with window screen. Yes, eggs and newly hatched mealworms will fall through. The beetle movement will shake things enough. Add a little wheat bran or fine material every once in a while...
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    Mealworm farming

    this is definitely true. They will eat right through some veggies.
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    Mealworm farming

    It depends, I think there are around 4000-5000 in a pound. Generally, there is a not a lot of size difference, but there will be some smaller ones. The nylon is a fine mesh, not sure what it is for, we bought it in a fabric store. You want it like mosquito netting, which is much finer than...
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    Mealworm farming

    yes, it really makes the whole thing way easier to manage and really increases output. Now, mealworms are not hard to manage to begin with, but I didn't like all the sorting, sifting, etc.
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    Mealworm farming

    We've been using variations of this for about a year. I started first in just a couple of trays to test the concept and the sifting, then expanded slowly.
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    Mealworm farming

    I don't sort them, I let them sort themselves. Here is a photo of our Mealworm Tower: Our baskets have different kinds of screens, so we let the mealworm movement screen out the frass, the beetle movement to screen out the eggs, and when they are ready to feed, we put the mealworms in the...
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    Replacing soy with mealworms

    http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/mealworms-animal-feed-supplement-zbcz1503.aspx Quote: Here's our Mealworm Farm How-to, it's optimized for higher production, giving you 1.5 lbs of mealworms per week. We use them as a way to convert herbivore manure into protein...
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    Closing the loop with BSFL

    yes! and chicken manure, too.
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    Closing the loop with BSFL

    That's a good point. I think most people view human poop as worse than chicken poop, though I don't think there's a lot to back up that fear. Assuming the chickens don't live right above the cows, there's less time on the human/grub side as well, far less chance of contamination, and less...
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    Closing the loop with BSFL

    Bug tofu would be easy to make, as well, and would work ok as a meat replacement in meals: http://www.popsci.com/c-fu-tofu-made-100-percent-mealworm-protein I wonder how much of the commercially raised meat eats poop already? It's common in the poultry and pig industry to feed manures to animals.
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    Closing the loop with BSFL

    and just for the record, I've eaten mealworms, crickets, grasshoppers. Once you get past your fear/yuk factor, it's not bad. Mealworms are the best, they have the texture of a Cheeto, which the taste of a pecan. BSFL are rumored to taste good, I have never tried. I do know that they have a...
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    Closing the loop with BSFL

    what about bug Tofu? :) People don't like the idea of eating bugs in Western societies (even though you eat them in your flours and grains already), but luckily, we have other options, like chickens, fish, pigs, etc.
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