- May 20, 2019
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Clever campaigner.Yep, natural jungle floor scavengers.
One of the best business ideas I ever heard of was a bloke who lived in the States, small city, maybe 50-60K people, he lived up in the hills a bit out of town on maybe 5-10 acres, nothing extravagant or expensive.
Had a circular system where he took a truckload of eggs down daily to a heap of businesses in the city, they gave him literally ALL their whole food scraps (bar just a couple of things like citrus peel) to take back up the hill every day when he dropped his eggs off.
Then when he got home he just dumped all the waste on the floor of a big barn so it got 3-4ft deep on average, the chooks forage through a huge variety of scraps at their leisure, the pile itself naturally attracts other live bugs for them to feast on. They need no other feed. Their nesting boxes are around the outside edge of the barn, can quickly and easily collect the eggs from outside, the chooks themselves happily free range outside the barn over maybe another fenced acre or so.
He makes a packet out of it, last I heard he had it tuned so now all the waste he gets is from a network of organic growers who supply the businesses he networks in with.