Metamorphosis
Our first silk
worm moth showed up this
week!
There will be no flight for
these wings due to generations of domestic breeding.
No food or drink either. The
only job this moth has to do is hope one of the other cocoons changes
into a moth and ask her out on a date.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Have you guys ever considered breeding roaches? Im not talking about roaches that are pest.
I breed Surinam roaches for my birds and fish. I think they would be much easier than the silk worms. You can raise them on scraps, and they multiply very fast, like roaches.
I thought that roaches require food that could also be eaten by chickens, so probably more efficient to give straight to the birds. For instance they say you can feed roaches cat food or whole grain cereal or baby cereal. Though maybe roaches could eat some things chickens cannot - I am not sure. I was thinking of bugs that eat food that chickens cannot such as termites or detrivores such as earthworms, or that collect food outside your property, like bees. It would be nice to devise traps that catch wild bugs from the garden simply and conveniently.