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Chickens do not need to feed on grain. They are omnivores that eat almost anything. You can just feed them table scraps and let them forage.
by Amezarak 5y ago
Chickens do not need to feed on grain. They are omnivores that eat almost anything. You can just feed them table scraps and let them forage.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoTable scraps, what? When food is half of income, table scraps are much more meager, much less left on the table, and there's a whole pecking order of who eats what cuts of meat (hopefully meat) and everything else. All the way from the breadwinner down to the pig. Foraging? Yeah if you don't mind foxes eating them, which is like the favoritest thing a fox can want. They figure out chicken coops built with way higher production values with chicken wire and the like, in the present day, back in Rome it must have been a cakewalk. And I don't blame the foxes, nor do I blame native Chilean cats that do the same, rather it's just to easy to prey on this flightless bird humans feed to eat. The whole concept of animal domestication, really, it's fish in a barrel.
- stu2b50 5y agoTable scraps is not exactly a scalable solution. That's fine for a handful of chickens a particular family owns, but a) those chickens are not going to be slaughtered until they can produce no more eggs and b) they will likely be consumed by the family, not sold on the market as it is just a handful of animals.