I buy eggs from my neighbor down the road. They run around in his yard eating bugs. The yolks are a reddish orange. Murder eggs from corn fed chickens at the store have pale yellow yolks. Which is more nutritious?
Also, cows can be fed grass sprouts which can be grown all year round...practically in a dark warehouse without the need for huge fields and fertilizer. Cows fed grass produce much less methane because they aren't meant to eat corn. We're feeding cows food that gives them gas and the shits.
Have laying hens. I feed them meal worms, crickets, raspberries, mulberry, and black berries. NO corn.
This is the way.
We also have a chicken tractor we utilize during winter.
Herd them in, then move it about the yard. They get fresh bugs year around.
Prettiest orange yolk. A lot tastier as well.
I buy eggs from my neighbor down the road. They run around in his yard eating bugs. The yolks are a reddish orange. Murder eggs from corn fed chickens at the store have pale yellow yolks. Which is more nutritious?
Also, cows can be fed grass sprouts which can be grown all year round...practically in a dark warehouse without the need for huge fields and fertilizer. Cows fed grass produce much less methane because they aren't meant to eat corn. We're feeding cows food that gives them gas and the shits.
Who's behind big corn????
Bought some "high class" eggs from the store.
Expensive but had lovely orange yolks.
So now I can guess they've been eating bugs.
Eating the eggs from chickens that eat bugs is the only way i will consider eating bugs and not minding it.
To make them fat, to make the meat marbled as that gets a premium on the market.
The interesting thing about Morrisons is they are vertically integrated - they sell food from their own farms.
So they sell "wonky veg" which reduces waste (rejection at the farm gate is a major contribution to food waste).
Fly larva feed to chickens is an upgrade indeed. That's more like their natural diet, and not the GMO-corn-soy-fishpowder-meal fed to them these days.
The question is, how they're gonna grow the fly larva and what are they going to feed them?
Chicken's are monogastric.
The shit you feed chicken's feed is going to end up in the chicken, esp. the fats.
That's why I eat cows and sheep personally, cos they are ruminants.
Soldier flies are real easy and practically free to grow.