Poultry Production in Hawaii (1947)
There is a rare, out of print book called Poultry Production in Hawaii by Charles M. Bice, published in 1947. It was mentioned in a great blog entry at Asagi Hatchery. I found a copy of the book! Although much of the information is general in nature or dated, some is fascinating and possibly relevant to sustainable production today.
Mr. Bice describes “All-Hawaiian Emergency Rations” which consist of ingredients which were apparently locally available in 1947, including: Fish meal, Red milo maize, Pigeonpea meal, Soybean oil meal, Peanut oil meal, Algaroba bean meal, Pineapple bran, Koa haole seed meal. He recommends supplementing with fresh Koa haole leaves, Pigeon pea leaves, Sweetpotato leaves, and Honohono grass.
I’ve typed in a small excerpt from the book so you can see it, and added a mention to the chicken notes.
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3 Responses to “Poultry Production in Hawaii (1947)”
December 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I read somewhere that foraging is not an option for chickens, but how can that be when there are all of those wild chickens in the island? Or is it that if you want eggs on a reliable basis you need really good feed?
December 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
The answer is: yes and no. You can raise a small number of chickens on forage, depending on the amount and quality of nutrition available. All around the world, there are villages and poor families with forage flocks, and they do occasionally produce an egg, or provide a dinner.
However, for a larger number of birds that actually produce a good amount of eggs or meat, you must feed them. If we tried to raise our 40 birds on ONLY forage, on our farm, not only would they barely lay eggs, but they would probably wander away, starve, or eat each other! And we’re a tiny farm – consider 400 or 4000 birds, or what is considered a “small” battery operation of 40,000 birds, which is where almost all the eggs in the world come from.
Those wild chickens you see are generally scrawny and unhealthy with short life-spans and almost no eggs.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
thanks ben!
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