OH - and I have already decided to add oyster shell - in fact, where we are building the coop, there is a ton of oyster shells under from a few trips to Apalachicola - perhaps the chickens will peck at them - but I have a small metal dish that will hang on the side of the coop that will hold...
Mary, that is something I didn't consider - the critters. We have a resident opossum that we've actually named, she's so common in our yard. She's been such a fixture of our yard for so long, and has never been destructive, that I nearly forgot about her. Of course, she'd be interested in those...
Back when I was raising reptiles and poison dart frogs, I raised all my food animals, including fruit flies, termites, mealworms and crickets. I wanted to keep my costs down so I asked my local Publix if they would allow me to take the old produce they were going to throw away, and they allowed...