RE: [Homesteadingfamily] Supplementing Animal Feed

I have read that also BUT the chickens eat the worms in the worm bed under
the rabbits.... trade off I guess.

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From: Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Laura Hill
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:53 AM
To: Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Homesteadingfamily] Supplementing Animal Feed

We also raise chickens and rabbits too. My husband and I just recently read
in the book "You Can
Farm"<http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Farm-Entrepreneurs-Enterprise/dp/0963810
928>
by
Joel Salatin. He runs Polyface Farms and is an avid natural farmer. We
learned reading his book that chickens actually eat rabbit feces. Because
of the way rabbits process their food, the feces comes out clean for
chickens to eat.

We have moved our coop under and all around our rabbits and have
supplemented our feed with the feces.

This has really cut down costs for us.

Just my two cents :)

Laura~

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:56 AM, nickibulicek
<nickibulicek@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Does anyone have any tips on supplementing animal feed to save some
> money but still give the animals what they need? I have rabbits,
> goats, ducks, chickens and soon we will be getting pigs. The pigs we
> just feed vegetable and dairy scraps and the chickens free range but
> have access to layer feed so I mostly just need tips on the
> ducks,rabbits and goats. Also what are some good crops to grow in limited
space for your animals? Thanks so much!
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