[BrowserCat]

One way to feed chickens is a maggotry; I believe on another thread someone mentioned the method using a dead animal but this uses spent brewery grains and animal manure instead: http://www.fastonline.org/images/manuals/Animal_Husbandry/Poultry/maggotry.pdf

 

[Sweeper]

One way to feed chickens is a maggotry; I believe on another thread someone mentioned the method using a dead animal but this uses spent brewery grains and animal manure instead: http://www.fastonline.org/images/manuals/Animal_Husbandry/Poultry/maggotry.pdf

Yeah, that was my thread, but this one incorporates grains as well,something I was unaware of, thanks BrowserCat:thumb:

 

[230gr]

this one incorporates grains as well

I have seen maggot feeders for fish ponds or even as hung as fish attractors for wild fishing. Chickens need grain for calories even on pasture (grass, weeds, bugs) just less. Maggots would be a good protein supplement but, unless the road kill is really far gone, I usually just thoroughly boil the carcass until the meat is soft and feed it to them directly. Chickens are not picky eaters thoroughly boiled rough fish, where the bones are softened, will be eaten completely. I usually get a good egg increase too but the still need greens for vitamins.

brewery grains and animal manure instead

These are a different kind of fly, not a house fly, that I did a post on once.

 

[curdog]

I hope they don't start using that to feed these chicken houses around here there's enough flies here already.

 

[Smudge]

Not sure I'd want to try this method around the home..... but its definately interesting.

 

[230gr]

hope they don't start using that to feed these chicken houses around here there's enough flies here already.

For house fly maggots, the carcass should be hung in a chicken wire mesh net above a shallow container of water. As the maggots wiggle off and through the mesh the drown in the water (where the chickens pick them out). Few of them ever escape to become adults.

 

[FLsurvivalist]

Pretty gross.

 

[230gr]

Life can be a messy business and smelly too.

 

[Sam Reeves]

Dang. Your chickens would have to be 1/2 mile from your house to be able to stand to smell something like that.

 

[230gr]

Your chickens would have to be 1/2 mile from your house to be able to stand to smell

Well 100, maybe 200 yards, if you have a nose like a buzzard.

 

[BakCompat]

Pretty gross.

Hakuna matata.

It's the circle of life.