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My chickens are my great lovable garbage disposals who give me eggs. Every morning, I bring them scraps: kitchen scraps, left overs, food too “old” to eat from the fridge, etc. They love it all and devour it up in no time flat. (They have access to chicken feed, too.) We also dump almost all green waste & yard clippings in the chicken coop & run for deep litter method / consumption. I haven’t cleaned the coop or run in 3 years as deep litter method takes care of that for me until I’m ready to harvest the compost.
I’ve been thinking of raising worms, mostly as snacks for my chickens, but maybe for a little worm tea for the garden. My question is what do I feed the worms? Everything is already going directly to the chickens, except citrus which worms don’t want either.
All I’ve figured out so far is diverting mail and box board from the garbage for worm bedding. But I know that’s not enough.
The picture below shows this morning’s offerings: left over spaghetti from last night, tri tip from a week ago, take out fried noodles from 5-6 days ago, hot salsa from Chipotle, gumbo from last week, a piece of beef jerky too tough to eat. The food will be gone by the time I’m back to collect today’s eggs.
I’ve been thinking of raising worms, mostly as snacks for my chickens, but maybe for a little worm tea for the garden. My question is what do I feed the worms? Everything is already going directly to the chickens, except citrus which worms don’t want either.
All I’ve figured out so far is diverting mail and box board from the garbage for worm bedding. But I know that’s not enough.
The picture below shows this morning’s offerings: left over spaghetti from last night, tri tip from a week ago, take out fried noodles from 5-6 days ago, hot salsa from Chipotle, gumbo from last week, a piece of beef jerky too tough to eat. The food will be gone by the time I’m back to collect today’s eggs.