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I'm high, and planning on building a chicken coop and a greenhouse.
Let's assume my chicken coop is big enough to house 800 broiler chickens, so I split it up to house 100 chickens per coop, and harvest 100 once a week, excluding losses.
The greenhouse would grow crops for the chicken feed, and plant waste will be fed into an insect bin, full of earthworms and isopods, which I intend to grind up as a protein and calcium supplement for the chickens, in place of fish meal. Between the chicken manure and the insect frass and castings, I expect i wouldn't need to add other fertilizers.
Now, if I pump the air from the birds into the greenhouse, technically the air would be CO2 rich, but not like super rich... How. Big would each greenhouse need to be if I were to grow feed for the chickens all year round? Also what would I need to grow?
Let's assume my chicken coop is big enough to house 800 broiler chickens, so I split it up to house 100 chickens per coop, and harvest 100 once a week, excluding losses.
The greenhouse would grow crops for the chicken feed, and plant waste will be fed into an insect bin, full of earthworms and isopods, which I intend to grind up as a protein and calcium supplement for the chickens, in place of fish meal. Between the chicken manure and the insect frass and castings, I expect i wouldn't need to add other fertilizers.
Now, if I pump the air from the birds into the greenhouse, technically the air would be CO2 rich, but not like super rich... How. Big would each greenhouse need to be if I were to grow feed for the chickens all year round? Also what would I need to grow?
