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Hi,
I am not sure, are you talking about Arachis pintoi? If yes, feedipedia gives 21% crude protein.
It is written it stands heavy grazing, but I think that was tested with ruminants. However, I think as long as you rotate your small livestock quickly through it, removing only part of the biomass, it would work.
https://www.feedipedia.org/node/702

Soon microsoft will only support windows 11, therefore many companies will dump their old infrastructure, or sell out very cheap. If you find an reasonably recent (one 2-3 years), and ask someone to install linux on it, yoiu will be set up waaayy cheaper than 1000$, with equal, if not superior quality. That is if you think in the long term.

I first read desert pizza, so was thinking of sorghum dough, a paste with drought tolerant pumpkins instead of tomato sauce, baobab leaves instead of spinach, camel cheese on top, and a dribble of olive oil.
Anyone getting hungry?

But for dessert pizza, no idea, sorry, not the sweet type

Hi,

Parc Carreg is experimenting with raising guinea pigs outdoors year-round, in pens moved daily. They use them as lawnmower.
Depending on your predator pressure, their setup won't work for you, but the work to meat ratio seems quite interesting for small areas.
I would love to know how many kg of meat can be produced a year with the moves once a day.

Before replying:
do you have electricity?
where are you, what is the lowest temperature you get?
do you already have your mobile chicken coop?

If you have electricity, using brooder plates works for keeping the chicks warm. Even outside, depending on the climate/weather.
Online, I have also seen tent-like structures for chicks with integrated heating plates, but they seem really cheaply done.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=heating+plate+chicken&atb=v320-1&iax=images&ia=images

Thanks for the tip with the sand blaster, but I guess the paint will just be removed as dust, and fly everywhere as well.

I just found a steel propane (?) bottle in the dump, and wanted to weld* a stove.
To do so, I would however need to remove the paint. There seem to be different options:

-Sanding or grinding the paint away
-Burning it away
-Using paint removers
-Something else?

Sanding seems to put the paint particles everywhere, would have to do it inside
Burning will lead to pollution, as it will be difficult to reach a safe temperature
Paint removers seem like really toxic chemicals. Are there safe paint removing chemicals?

What are your ways of removing paint?

*Never cut or weld a bottle containing a flammable gas! first fill it with water!

Hi,
I sadly don't have the opportunity to trap pigs like you, I wouln't be buying meat otherwise...
Have you heard of the "pig brig" trap?
I haven't tried it out, but as it works passively, and new pigs can enter even when the others are trapped, it sounded like a good system.

Hi Eric,
as you are in Spain and have holly oaks growing on their own, you might want to check out the following website:
http://balanotrees.org/sweet-acorns/
They sell grafted sweet oaks, which are edible and made up a substantial part of the diet in Iberia up to a few decades ago.

I found this article which describes trials with alcohol in drinking water for ducks, but as ducks drink quite a lot, I imagine it is worse than having the alcohol in the feed.

Especially table 2 is interesting:
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1159/000175313