Homesteaders

[Woodsdweller]

Hey flocktastic... welcome

 

[KlopKlop]

If you free range chickens.... do you ever see what they eat? Pretty much anything that moves, moldy compost scraps and plants. Not so much different than pigeons. I won't eat them raw (chicken neither), but protein is protein. I'm fairly sure you'd eat ants, grubs and other ickies if you got hungry enough. I'm an ex-survival instructor and there's not much I "refuse" to eat, but plenty I'd rather not if I had a choice.... i.e. brussel sprouts, cooked cabbage and liver.

Yeah the 'what the food I eat, eats' part doesn't bother me really, that was more of where that thread has turned. My chicken's favorite part of the day is when I take our scraps to the compost. They eat some pretty 'gross to me' stuff. I still eat their eggs

The disease carrying part I would be curious to know as far as wild pigeons go. Maybe they aren't any worse of a vector than any wild bird and that is just what I was told?

My grandma raised cattle when I was growing up and that is where my brothers and cousins and I would exterminate them in her sheds.

The made poop messes and nests everywhere. Maybe that had more to do with it?

 

[duluthralphie]

If you free range chickens.... do you ever see what they eat? Pretty much anything that moves, moldy compost scraps and plants. Not so much different than pigeons. I won't eat them raw (chicken neither), but protein is protein. I'm fairly sure you'd eat ants, grubs and other ickies if you got hungry enough. I'm an ex-survival instructor and there's not much I "refuse" to eat, but plenty I'd rather not if I had a choice.... i.e. brussel sprouts, cooked cabbage and liver.

Now that sounds like a great meal!!!! If we can add onions to the liver.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

If you free range chickens.... do you ever see what they eat? Pretty much anything that moves, moldy compost scraps and plants. Not so much different than pigeons. I won't eat them raw (chicken neither), but protein is protein. I'm fairly sure you'd eat ants, grubs and other ickies if you got hungry enough. I'm an ex-survival instructor and there's not much I "refuse" to eat, but plenty I'd rather not if I had a choice.... i.e. brussel sprouts, cooked cabbage and liver.

I would eat bugs before I would eat liver.

 

[Woodsdweller]

Quote: Oh.. I forgot banana slugs.. some like em (see California banana slug cooking contest).. I don't... might be a texture thingy.. kinda like brussel sprouts and cooked cabbage... too slimy.

 

[Woodsdweller]

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As far as I've been able to ascertain pigeons aren't any more likely to carry diseases than other fowl. Granted.... I've never researched urban flying vermin, just their country kin.

 

[flocktastic]

Hey Kloppers,  I watched the video Bee posted and think I can make a pea sheller out of an old washing machine in our basement.....

However, that idea was nixed by my DW, when she said I could not touch that washer let alone tear it apart..

So I am back to buying the one you pointed out...Can you believe she would not let me make one for free?

Thank you both!

 

[jerrey]

I would eat bugs before I would eat liver.

that's funny liver is very good with onions

 

[Chicken girl 15]

that's funny liver is very good with onions

no way no how. That is the one food item I won't even feed my dogs or chickens. Nope . Yuck. Or any other words you can think of.

 

[KlopKlop]

no way no how. That is the one food item I won't even feed my dogs or chickens. Nope . Yuck. Or any other words you can think of.

Why not your dogs? Mine go bonkers for chicken liver and I would suspect it is quite a good protein source for them.

Is it because you don't want to handle it?