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A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm

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33 points PaulHoule | 3 comments | 02 Nov 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mythrwy ◴[02 Nov 25 17:47 UTC] No.45792043[source]▶
Interesting. I have been feeding my chickens ground flax seed and pecans (there are a lot of pecan orchards in the area so it's easy to get old nuts which I just smash and let the chickens pick through them). I don't have any quantitative data but I'm hopeful it produces healthier eggs. At minimum it produces very tasty eggs.
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delichon ◴[02 Nov 25 18:52 UTC] No.45792483[source]▶

  If one in three households had enough chickens to eat your kitchen scraps, there would not be an egg industry in the United States. It would be completely non-essential. -- https://x.com/JoelSalatin/status/1984757129463337063
I'm thinking of taking him up on it.
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1. hyperhello ◴[02 Nov 25 19:26 UTC] No.45792723[source]▶
That’s sort of a tautology. If enough non-industrial agents had anything, there would not be an industry. Says nothing about whether that would be desirable or efficient to live among millions of residential chickens.
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2. delichon ◴[02 Nov 25 19:32 UTC] No.45792749[source]▶
It's allowed in our CC&Rs, where pigs are not, because it causes very little nuisance (without roosters).
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3. cwmoore ◴[02 Nov 25 23:32 UTC] No.45794360[source]▶
In the right place and time, rooster chicks would make excellent invasive python bait. Just a thought.