The sun has decided to show its face these last couple days. Looking out our windows, you might think it was raining from all the icicles melting and dripping away to nothing. Michael managed to breakup all the ice on the outside patio to give the kids a dry place to play and ride their bikes. With all this nice weather I can't help but long for spring. While the sun is melting the ice, its not doing much for the air temperature, which I long to see in the 90s personally. Here in our small town its still barely reaching 40* outside. That hasn't stopped me from dreaming though. Plans are drawn up for gardening, and visions of letting the kids lose outside all day long with no excuses such as frozen fingers and toes to stop us from soaking up summer run through my head. I have big plans for spring. It will be our first spring and summer with adequate property for a minuscule farm. So, we are starting with chickens... or ducks. Did I just say or Ducks? Oddly, yes I did. Maybe both? After some research I found that Duck eggs are actually slightly more nutritious - and lets face it, ducklings are soo cute. Michael is voting for chickens for one reason - they taste better. True. We'll see what we end up with.
To feed the poultry we want to supplement there feed with organic sprouted fodder, a mixture of barley and various grains, to cut the cost and enhance nutrition. Michael found a small green house design that uses hydroponics to sprout the fodder in a 7 day cycle. Using fodder and just a small amount of feed and letting our chickens free range, I calculated based on the average chickens weight and the cost of feed it will cost us .06$ a chicken a day to feed our birds an all organic diet. Not too shabby. Now to build the coop and green houses and buy our birds…
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