Homesteading Challenge #3 – My Favorite Livestock
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You know I never thought about worms and how we could make them work for us. this is a great post now you have me thinking.
Oh they are super useful. And living in the country you don't even have to do too much to attract them: they migrate from all around to a delicious pile of rotten fruit or manure. You could capture them for a bin, or even "free-range" them by just maintaining a working compost.
Wow..I always knew that worms suck out the dredge and enrich soil superbly with their excretions..
But you spoke about them with such respect, familiarity, and love!! I couldn't help thinking warmly about them and how their 9-weekly doubling in numbers really a welcome infestation for top quality soil.
they eat up to half their weight in a day Wow, that's impressive. Who'd have thought that of a worm!!!! I should think their guts are huge and take up most of their body length.. =P
Yeah, their metabolism is off the charts! Could you imagine me eating 30 kg in a day, or three ten kilo meals? That's what I always like to remind people of whenever they mention that I eat a lot. ;-)
HAHAHAH that's exactly what came to mind when I read your article..I was calculating 50% of my weight...no wayyyyy..hahahha
You got the perfect excuse now..no wonder you remember the details of these wormies so welll!!! teehee
I love it! It such a great entry my friend.
Thank you! I feels so nice seeing that this short article, thrown together in the last minute, is being received so well. Really appreciate it!
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STOPI like the way you make worms look good ;) And I totally agree that worms are an essential part of our life, yet we never notice them. Thanks for this enlightening insight under ground.
Yes, they've got it all figured out: doing there work in secret, where no one is aware of them. Then they get a good laugh at us simple people who look at our fertile soil, thinking it just happened.
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Well written! I think you have some pretty handy creatures there! I didn't know they ate half their weight every day. I read somewhere that some sparrows (or some other high metabolism tiny birds) do as well
Well, with birds, especially small ones, it kinda makes sense: they have to move so much just to fly around. But worms... well, ... makes me wonder where all that energy goes.
You are so clever my friend. Only a true homesteader would have come up with this post. Be well.