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Re:Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US by wincy on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:24PM (#34357184)
Couldn’t you just not mow your lawn and let the chickens eat all the bugs?
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Re:Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US by IgorPartola on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:39PM (#34357442)
They eat so much that I don’t think you could. In the wild, a chicken lays an egg every few months to once a year. Domesticated laying hens lay an egg a day or so. Imagine how much energy it takes to convert bugs into a 60 gram egg.
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Re:Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US by artificialLimbs on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:33PM (#34357350)
Not in the winter.
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Re:Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US by voisin on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:59PM (#34357750)
Yes. It is always a good idea to rotate them over different areas to give the land a chance to repopulate (and their excrement helps attract bugs in the meantime). A lot of people have a coop that has two doors on opposite sides to different runs for this purpose.
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