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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 27, 2012 22:35:53 GMT -5
So, are any of you familiar with this? I'm thinking of running the chickens on it. They like cabbage and broccoli.....
Has anyone grown camelina? Advice?
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 27, 2012 22:57:41 GMT -5
The guy across the road from me grows it for seed... sometimes. He is very bullish on it for bio-diesel or salad oil. He's having a lot of trouble getting his stored seed pressed. I actually never went across the road to see what it looks like up close. Do you have seed? I'm sure I could score a little from Dave if you need some.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 28, 2012 14:32:47 GMT -5
I was going to order some from Adaptive Seed. But I thank you kindly for whatever you send. When your seeds come, I'll stick another envelope inside to send me some.
I don't know if you followed the thread about the young fellow who made a windmill oil press. I wrote to him. If he gets them into the manufacturing stage, I want one. Until then, I'm thinking Omega's and chickens, go together like eggs & pie. Last year I ran the chickens on turnips. They loved it!
I read about the biodiesel thing, but that's a ways off for me. Maybe not even in my lifetime.
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Post by raymondo on Jul 28, 2012 18:28:06 GMT -5
I bought some to try this spring, more out of curiosity that anything else. Hollly, are you growing it to feed the seed to your chickens or are the good oils found in leafy matter too?
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 29, 2012 0:12:21 GMT -5
It was my thought that I would run the chickens on the plants twice, once on the greens and then when the crop goes to seed.
I'm always looking for a cover crop that they will eat.
Price of organic chicken scratch has gone to $1.25 a pound! To rich for my blood. And Leo won't eat anything that's GMO.
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Post by steev on Jul 29, 2012 22:41:49 GMT -5
Picky Leo. So when SHTF, he's only going to eat non-GMO, free-range Urbanites?
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 30, 2012 10:23:40 GMT -5
I have a pecking order:
1. Anyone involved in a County Office.
2. State Office
3. Federal Government
I want to eat their children so they cannot breed to create more bureaucracy.
We can flush them with organic right? Sort of like putting slugs in cornmeal?
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Post by steev on Jul 30, 2012 19:20:05 GMT -5
I'd rather flush them with cardoon-chokes, force-fed whole; you'd know they're cleaned out when they're shrieking from the privy.
I stopped even considering banana slugs cleaned with cornmeal when I saw how much they like fresh doggie-doo.
Feeding on bureaucrats' offspring is too little, too late. Think Gummint Oysters; more efficient; more humane; less feeling driven to eat more than necessary, just to make a dent in the surplus.
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