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Infinite amount of corn and space. What animal to raise? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world to c/permaculture@lemmy.world
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Hello,

I am attempting to raise as much of my family's diet on food we raise ourself on our family farm. We grow corn and if we wanted to we could store an infinite amount of ground corn that falls out of our machinery every year.

We already have chickens for eggs and meat. Space is not an issue.

What animal should we get that can be fed with corn and grass to supplement our chicken flock? I'm willing to entertain all warm blooded options.

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pigs are your best bet with all that corn - they convert feed to meat super efficiently and will happily eat whatever corn you've got plus kitchen scraps and forage if you rotate them on pasture (check out some good rotational systems at gearscouts.com if your interested in portable power for electric fencing).

[–] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for following up, I think we have decided around starting 2 hogs per year. Now we just have to figure out how to be smarter than the hogs with our fencing.

Glad to finally have a use for the 50 bushel of corn dust that falls around the dryer every year.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In terms of efficiency I hear good things about rabbits. Pigs are also good, or so I hear. Pigs can also handle disposal of other... waste...

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

"Hence the phrase, 'Greedy as a pig.'"

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Water buffalo, because mozarella is 🔥

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I was really perplexed by that first sentence in the title before I saw what sub this was