It took a while, but our
ducks finally started laying in the duck
nest box.
The one problem is dirty
eggs. The next duck that comes in has dirty feet and transfers some of
that mud and dirt to the eggs that were there before.
Maybe some sort of egg alert
system could notify a human to go get an egg before the next duck
decides she needs to lay one?
The shape of galaxies and the
arrangement of leaves on a plant stem are both examples of how the
Golden Spiral can be expressed in nature.
Is there any Golden Spiral
geometry in a backyard chicken?
Nothing has been discovered yet,
but Marchelo gets my award for the most
mathmatically inspired chicken tractor by building his poultry sculpture
in a way that mimics the Golden Spiral.
Perdue
Farms has been experimenting with probiotics in an effort to raise
chickens without anitbiotics for the past 5 years.
Enterococcus, Lactobacillus,
and Bifidobacterium seem to be the top three of poultry probiotics.
Probiotics might be a
worthwhile experiment if we were raising large numbers of Free
Range-Organic-Antibiotic Free chickens to sell for a profit. We briefly
considered trying that back in our early days. The conclusion we came
to was that people in our area would not be willing to pay the extra
amount for the increased quality. I’m not sure a medium sized chicken
grower could operate a small probiotic lab and still be cost effective?