A Once-in-a-Generation Discovery Is Transforming a Michigan Dairy Farm

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A Michigan dairy farm has made a significant discovery of rare earth elements, sparking discussions about sustainable mining practices and the potential economic impact on the farm and local community.

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mythrwy

2 months ago

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Interesting. I have been feeding my chickens ground flax seed and pecans (there are a lot of pecan orchards in the area so it's easy to get old nuts which I just smash and let the chickens pick through them). I don't have any quantitative data but I'm hopeful it produces healthier eggs. At minimum it produces very tasty eggs.

delichon

2 months ago

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  If one in three households had enough chickens to eat your kitchen scraps, there would not be an egg industry in the United States. It would be completely non-essential. -- https://x.com/JoelSalatin/status/1984757129463337063

I'm thinking of taking him up on it.

hyperhello

2 months ago

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That’s sort of a tautology. If enough non-industrial agents had anything, there would not be an industry. Says nothing about whether that would be desirable or efficient to live among millions of residential chickens.

delichon

2 months ago

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It's allowed in our CC&Rs, where pigs are not, because it causes very little nuisance (without roosters).

cwmoore

2 months ago

In the right place and time, rooster chicks would make excellent invasive python bait. Just a thought.

m3047

2 months ago

I have noticed (with my intergenerational, perpetual flock) that different behaviors come and go. There seems to be a current one where if I feed them mixed scratch grains then when it's rainy they eat the corn and leave the wheat / barley to sprout before eating. I wish they wouldn't, it attracts rats!

jacknews

2 months ago

This is great, but we must be quite close to a decent synthetic milk by now? It's just water, fats, lactose (possibly optional) and some proteins - no structure to worry about. It would cut out a lot of unnecessary steps.

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