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- From: yee@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jonathan Yee)
- Subject: Growing fodder..
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:03:59 GMT
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- Anybody have any experience growing fodder for farm animals?
- Lately, for my newly established duck & goose enterprise I have decided to
- try to grow my own feed -- at least as a supplement. I've so far sown
- clover, alfalfa, & buckwheat seeds purchased at a health food store.
- Anybody care to comment on their methodologies in growing and harvesting
- these crops? I guess, out of curiosity, you may ask, "what do you do with
- your ducks & geese?".. Well, here in Hawaii, salted duck eggs are rather a
- delicacy (salted in water for ~month, then boiled). And with them roaming
- around in pens in my farm, they enrich the soil for gardening once it's
- their turn to rotate to another vacant pen. Further digressing here, it
- seems to me that an ideal garden/farm is one that's self-sufficent, and
- animals help provide a necessary balance...
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