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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

In this Badge Bit you will feed appropriate kitchen scraps to an animal(s). This means you are not feeding that animal any scraps that include members of its own species.



Here are some related articles on it:
 - 7 tips on feeding kitchen food to chickens
 - What Do Goats Really Eat?

This video and its description is an example of feeding appropriate kitchen scraps to animals.

Miles Smith Farm wrote: Grappone Center refrigerates kitchen scraps for our pigs and cows (no meat is allowed.)   We feed the kale, lettuce and veggies to the cattle and bread, pasta and pastries to the older sows and our boar, Bucky.





To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - you must feed appropriate kitchen scraps to an animal
 - you must share at least eight gallons of scraps
 - may be over multiple events but the volume needs to clearly total at least 8 gallons

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 - post a rough description of the kitchen scraps and how they're appropriate for the animal
 - post a picture of your buckets of kitchen scraps
 - post a picture of an animal(s) eating your buckets of kitchen scraps
 - OR a video of the kitchen scraps being brought out and the animal(s) eating it will suffice, too
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Is there a minimum bucket size?  My food scraps (compost) holder in the kitchen is about a gallon, would that work?

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Mike Jay wrote:Is there a minimum bucket size?  My food scraps (compost) holder in the kitchen is about a gallon, would that work?




Good question!  I updated the part about bucket size.

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Ok, I think I have this one completed.  I get organic food scraps each week from a nearby intentional community.  We also collect our own food scraps.  My bucket is about a gallon, theirs is 5 gallons.  The pictures represent two of my buckets and two of theirs (probably 3-4 gallons of food in each of their buckets) for a total of 8-10 gallons of food scraps.  They mainly consist of fruit and veggie scraps (apple cores, herb/green stalks, outer cabbage leaves, juicer pressings, peels, etc) with some egg shells mixed in.  They're appropriate for chickens because 1/3rd or more of their diet is supposed to be green stuff, 1/3 seeds and 1/3 meat (as I understand it) so this satisfies a bunch of their green needs and a small bit of their seed needs (melon seeds, apple seeds, etc).  The egg shells return some calcium into their system.

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As the garden winds for the year and market season is over, there's about to be a lot less fresh produce going through our kitchen over the next few months. But for now there's still plenty of kitchen scrap snacks as we dehydrate,  can and freeze anything we have left still. Its a good buffet today for the birds. Four , five gallon buckets.This week they get mostly bok choy, pepper tops and seeds , tomatoes seeds and skins , some sweet potatoe and carrot skins cucumber skins a little lettuce and a few watermelons that probably should have been eaten already. As far as produce goes, or the most part. if I wouldn't consider eating it if I was starving, I usually dont feed it to the birds. Food that has started to turn usually goes to the compost pile.
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Don’t turn your animals into cannibals makes sense (break pathogen cycles etc...)

What about feeding egg shells back to hens? It is usually recommended so they get their calcium back.

Our daily routine includes taking kitchen waste to the hens. We never let more than about 2 litres build up in a day, and never a bucket worth at once. I presume multiple photos of multiple composts scraps is the way forward?

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I think for the purposes of this BB, feeding egg shells back to hens is acceptable.

I just modified the requirements to allow for smaller buckets.  Just make sure the volume is clearly enough in total.  No edge cases

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Kitchen and garden scraps are a regular part of our critters' diet. The chickens get it as compost, and the goats get it in what I call "goat salad." Scraps vary daily, depending on what's coming out of the kitchen: winter squash, pumpkin, potato, sunchokes, carrots, turnips, greens of all kinds (garden grown and foraged), organic banana peel, citrus rind, melon rinds, apple cores and peels, broccoli stalks and leaves, cabbage cores and leaves, sweet potato, daikon, tough okra pods, pea and bean pods. Goats don't have bottom teeth, so everything is chopped to bite-size.

It will take a series of days to make the required 8 gallons, so I'll be using this 2-gallon bowl as a measure.

Stainless steel bowl marked at 2, 4, and 6 quarts.

For 8 gallons, I'll need 32 quarts.

From left to right, day 1 (4 quarts), day 2 (4 quarts), and day 3 (6 quarts).

From left to right, day 4 (6 quarts), day 5 (6 quarts), and day 6 (6 quarts).

Amounts:
Day 1 - 4 quarts
Day 2 - 4 quarts
Day 3 - 6 quarts
Day 4 - 6 quarts
Day 5 - 6 quarts
Day 6 - 6 quarts
Total - 32 quarts

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Hi. The quantity specified would not be appropriate nurture for my critters. Can I modify this to daily snack box apple core, carrot peels, cucumber ends, bell pepper hearts,  etc. diced fine plus a good variety urban forage? I'm six months in and have definitely hit your bucket tally over time. Forage pic assortment and more can be found between our apartment and school - a walk I take six times a day because it's Spain and kids come home for lunch. (Or should I stop trying to make quail care match chicken goals? Be honest. I can take it.)
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Note: I think this will be very hard to do for quail.  But not impossible.  But you'd need to prove that you've given them 8 gallons over time.  Seems like it would be waaaay too many pictures for the effort.  Plus foraged greens don't count, it has to be kitchen scraps

 
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No worries. I'll mentally file it under PEX/PEA. It still makes me happy. Which forum, if any, is quail-centric? I think there's a set of skills to show for them, like, build an aviary, correct handling, create a no-stink system, show healthy feet/birds not on wire, upcycle a safe transport box, swap roos with a pal, etc. I just do these things because I want to,but it would be cool to drum up some enthusiasm.
 
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We don't have too much quail-centric stuff but in the Straw level of animal care there are a couple items with "quail" written on them.  Nothing more advanced than what you see is likely to appear in PEP.  Maybe PEA?

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I'm posting here for the PEA part of this BB. There's no specific thread over in PEA for this. Let me know if I should post elsewhere.

- post a rough description of the kitchen scraps and how they're appropriate for the animal
These are the kitchen scraps for my guinea pigs. They need additional Vitamin C than what's in their pellets and hay. They get most if it from bell peppers and leafy greens.

- post a picture of your buckets of kitchen scraps
One Gallon (PEA) = 16 cups. I have one 2cup and one 4cup measuring cups. 6 cups over three days equals 18 cups. Each pig gets approximately one cup per day unless she's a slow-poke or her sisters are extra piggy-ish that day.




- post a picture of an animal(s) eating your buckets of kitchen scraps
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I collect my kitchen scraps in a 10 quarter bucket and then empty the scraps in the chicken yard. I filled it 3 times as well as filling a 4 quarter metal bin with scrap over the course of a few weeks to complete this BB. The scraps included salad greens, apples cores and seeds, mangos, bananas, beet tops, radish tops, broccoli stems, cabbage leaves, beans and bison meat from cleaning out the chili pot, pine nuts, plus more that I’m sure I’m forgetting to name. These kitchen  scraps provide diversity to their omnivorous diet. I avoid scraps that could be toxic to chickens such as Rhubarb.

Note: I have added the missing picture of the bucket filled for the third time, which I failed to attache before.
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I updated my post to include the missing photo of the 3rd full bucket of kitchen scraps.
 
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4 5Gallon buckets of kitchen scraps collected from a few coop kitchens containing vegetable scraps and undesired leftovers. Fed to pigs.
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Maybe a dumb question... But why is it not appropriate for chickens to eat chicken?

And then, is it appropriate for them to eat eggs and eggshells?
 
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The chickens get anything I would eat, that I don't eat. Trimmings, old bread, leftover rabbit meals, past due vegetables, dinner plate scraps, etc. Chickens are omnivores. They're diet consists of everything they find when the sun is shining.
This one took a little bit to finish. I don't usually have a whole bucket full at the end of the day. I try to empty it for them everyday.

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Yeah same for me. I work at a school so I get food scraps sometimes. The odd bit of fried chicken has probably slipped in there.

I haven't started on the BB yet since I get very little kitchen scraps. It'll take me a couple of weeks I think to get it all.
 
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The chickens get whatever we don't eat (except for chicken!), whatever is about to expire at the grocery store, and even some things that I don't really expect them to eat as our current paddock is designed to be a chicken-aided compost field.

I do this every other day or so but sometimes it's just not worth taking a picture of and other times my wife or mother does it without taking a picture.  I hope this is enough!

EDIT 1: Latest feed from the scrap bucket. It's a 6 gallon bucket.
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I posted two more pics above with EDIT 1... For whatever reason it didn't include the text I added of "More scraps... My bucket is a 6 gallon Behrens for reference."
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Hey skip team. My rabbits love apples, cabbage and carrot scraps! I cannot feed them too much fruit, because they don't regulate blood sugar well. So this is a small bucket.
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Ok think I've finally got to 8 gal. My husband buys the salad for lunch but is really bad about eating it before it goes bad.
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I feed something like 1/4 of our table scraps to our worms (with the rest going to one of the compost heaps -- chickens are coming later this year and hopefully they'll start absorbing the balance). It's just whatever we toss in the counter-top bucket. With worms, you can find some loose rules like: not too much citrus/acid, no meat or dairy, but I don't really sweat those too much. We don't eat meat and don't discard much cheese, so we'd only violate those rules in very small quantities and even then, the warnings are mostly to prevent bad smells and attracting pests. See this source for an authoritative-seeming example. I had to do this over time, so I'm going to depict four feedings to two different worm bins in pictures below because our compost pail is two gallons.

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Between our pigs and chickens, nothing in this house goes to waste and with three kids sometimes that can be considerable. I typically keep a bowl with a lid on the counter, so that people can always great their food into it and depending on what is in it will decide which animal it goes to. I did some harvesting in the garden and I need to refresh some of my beds with compost that has been aging, so I was able to fill two buckets pretty quickly. We also sliced up a watermelon and all the rind was in there.
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Pigs enjoying scraps
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Feeding chickens
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Well I don't have enough internet access for getting a badge but wanted to say my meat pigeons are too spoiled to pick through scraps so I feed the scraps to mealworms which I thin out on occasion and hands feed to the squeakers, broody hens, select seniors, and the daddies who are feeding their children. I don't get a lot of scraps because I add scraps to the dog food I make. I also add edible weeds to both dog stew and mealworms feed, and of course the tender weeds to sandwiches and potato salad
 
Pascal Gelling
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Our animals (pigs and chickens) often get fed kitchen scraps from us and one of our neighbours. In these occasions they were fed lot's of apple peels, cores etc. from processing apples and outer leaves from cabbage processing. Also of course regular scraps like bits and pieces of zucchini, carrot leaves, carrot scraps, parnsip leaves, old bread, washing water from pans of soup etc. etc.

The stainless steel buckets all hold 10L. I've pictured plenty of them to show I've met the 8 gallon requirement.
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Pascal Gelling wrote:Our animals (pigs and chickens) often get fed kitchen scraps from us and one of our neighbours. In these occasions they were fed lot's of apple peels, cores etc. from processing apples and outer leaves from cabbage processing.



Yummy the scraps look good enough to eat! (So do your pigs)
 
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Our local grocery put out scraps from their kitchen, this was mostly lettuce and other unsalable produce, along with cutoffs from lots and lots of watermelon
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Lettuce scraps
Lettuce scraps
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Excited birds
Excited birds
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Watermelon
Watermelon
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They feast
They feast
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More
More
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And more
And more
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Even more
Even more
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So much scrap
So much scrap
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It’s great
It’s great
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Get their good side
Get their good side
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Bobbing for apples
Bobbing for apples
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Never stood a chance
Never stood a chance
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Exquisite
Exquisite
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All the apples, nice
All the apples, nice
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Dogs can have some if they ask nicely
Dogs can have some if they ask nicely
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Okay that was maybe too much
Okay that was maybe too much
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This afternoon we unfortunately discovered we have bugs in the pantry. Everything without a good barrier had to go. Fortunately for the chickens they love rice, patsta and bugs. The rice/pasta was cooked via sun power and the black box lid.
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50 quart box (12.5 gallon)
50 quart box (12.5 gallon)
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Birds gone wild
Birds gone wild
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Note: The instructions read "the volume needs to clearly total at least 8 gallons" and while your tote is larger, it is not filled to the brim.  8/12.5 = 0.64 ... If you can add a picture with a ruler showing the top of sticker on the box is greater than 60% of the overall height, I think that would indicate the level of rice, pasta, and bugs meets the 8gal minimum.

 
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I guess that first picture was awkward. Box is 10.5 inches and sticker top is at 6.
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