WHAT WE DO WITH OUR SLOP BUCKET NOW THAT WE GOT RID OF OUR PIGS

Kitchen scraps can be useful, but only if you actually use them for something!

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Back when we had pigs, we used to love having someone to dump all of our "waste" food. Whether they were leftovers, scraps, or spoiled food, the pigs never cared. They were just happy to get them. These days, we no longer have pigs, but we still have a use for the waste!

POULTRY PICNIC!

One thing that at least a few folks around here appreciate is chickens, especially when it comes to devouring waste food. Naturally, chickens are omnivores and will eat both plants and animals. Most of the animals are in the form of worms, insects, and bugs, but they will peck at larger animals if they find a dead one. Since many factory farms just grind up dead chickens and feed them back to the living ones (or so I've heard) some chicken is now sold as "vegetarian fed," but this is not normally what a chicken's diet would consist of. In the photo above, you can see that even before I was able to dump it out one chicken was already pecking at some ground beef and noodles.

Once the bucket is dumped, it becomes a free for all with Muscovy Ducks, Guinea Fowl, and Chickens all fighting it out for their own piece of the pie, or whatever else may have been in the slop bucket. In a very short amount of time whatever kitchen waste we may have had is completely gone, and the birds have some full stomachs. The only thing that we really don't offer the chickens when it comes to kitchen waste is anything with chicken in it. Sure, they'd eat it, but we'd rather not go there.

For us it is just part of making the most out of everything. I try to view everything as a resource rather than a waste. For one, this is now free food for our fine feathered friends. Not only does it help fill them up, it also reduces the amount of chicken feed that we need to purchase. In the summer they are better at foraging for themselves since there are more plants growing and more creatures crawling about, but right now we are feeding them a lot of feed from the store. Rather than throwing out food that they can eat and then purchasing extra feed, we'd much rather do this.

We are not alone when it comes to this, and we sure are glad to still have a good use for our scraps. If we do end up with scraps that contain chicken meat, we just send them down the hill to @bluerthangreen and @allforthegood to feed to their pigs.

Our chickens are now laying at a really good rate too, and soon we will start letting them sit again. Once we start that process, it'll only be 21 days to our next set of chicks! Spring sure is an exciting time of the year!

As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:

proof-of-slop-bucket-poultry-feeding-frenzy

Until next time…

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