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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...

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...

Now, before you get upset, just hear me out... :) I was reading about different insect integrations with waste streams and came across this one: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tmi.12228/pdf Quote: So, feeding Black Soldier Fly Larvae fresh human faeces resulted in FCR of...

We've had quail for a while, and we incorporated them into our Rabbit/Earthworm Food Web: http://velacreations.com/blog/365-quail-and-worms.html They work ok in that role, but not great. They don't scratch enough to really keep the top of the rabbit manure stirred up, we have to go through...

I have been researching sprouts and fodder systems a lot, lately. I would like to be able to replace grain my rabbits and poultry diets with this. But, the more I read, especially studies on fodder, I am starting to question whether I should just sprout the grain to 4 days, rather than go all...

What is a Food Web? The Food Web is a holistic approach towards small scale food production. Basically, it's a way to increase efficiency and yields by integrating your livestock. If you are going to raise chickens on your homestead, you should design connections and interactions between other...

I've got 5 laying hens. They are young and were doing just fine, and then in January, someone gave us a rooster. He was fine for a while, and then slowly starting loosing or picking his feathers out. After a month or so, he was totally bald. The others followed, and now they are all bald and...