Monday, August 11, 2008
Chicken feed
My doomer buddy turned me onto the maggot bucket. Five gallon bucket with two rings of1/2 inch diameter holes drilled about three inches from the bottom. Grass or leaf layer in the bottom third, some old rotten thing that flies have laid eggs on goes on the clippings, and cover with more leaves or whatever. Snap lid on and hang it a couple of feet off the ground in the chicken pen. Maggots hatch, eat and squiggle out the holes and fall on the ground. The chickens just hang out waiting for manna to fall from the sky.
Too cool. I’m just driving down the highway and see a raccoon roadkill on the centerline, slowed down enough to reach out the door and fling it into the back of the pickup. The flies had done their work and the day after I put it in the bucket it’s maggots foaming out of the holes.
4 Comments:
By 
Noocyte, at
Mon Aug 11, 03:48:00 PM:
By 
, at
Mon Aug 11, 11:41:00 PM:
Very cool.
How did Ray Bradbury put it?
"The problem with growing up in the city is you come to believe that heat comes from the furnace and food comes from the market"
I am just one generation away from people who had to grow or catch a large amount of what they ate. My father in law used to hunt ducks for Sunday dinner just down a dirt path from what is now John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA.qcjj
By Country Squire, at
Tue Aug 12, 07:12:00 AM:
Charlottesvillain,
Now you need to provide a complete list of your recent blog reading resources.
By Charlottesvillain, at
Tue Aug 12, 09:13:00 AM:
For starters I've been enjoying Causaubon's Book a lot as well.
