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Jefferdaughter- 'Bio-char' - a fancy new name for charcoal - can be useful in the soil. Apparently, especially in hot, humid climates dominated by trees that therefore do not tend to sequester carbon. (Grasses are much more efficient at pumping carbon into the soil, which feeds the microbes and fungi, which leads to increased soil fertility, improved soil structure, and stabilization of soil carbon.) However, soil scientist Dr. Elaine Ingham recommends caution when attempting to use it. Search YouTube, the Internet, or visit her SoilFoodWeb site for more information.
Jefferdaughter- People need to understand that a certain percentage of livestock - no matter how coddled - will die each year. Often, this simply runs up expenses, and increases illness: animals in confinement, in barns or lots, have higher incidences of illness. Treatment often simply prolongs the animal's suffering. This may be hard for many who have no experience with livestock to understand, but it is true. Of course, farmers looking for functional genetics usually get rid of an animal as soon as it is obvious the animal is not thriving in that setting. Or, if it looks like reasonable care will help that animal to recover well enough to be harvested or sold, that is what happens. Or, the animal is put down. Regardless, sometimes animals will go down to far too fast to be helped, or found dead. Confinement poultry houses expect a certain percentage of birds to die each day, for instance. The universities tell them not to bother with necropsy or other efforts to find out what killed the bird until the % of deaths exceedes what is considered normal. Several vets have said that they expect a pretty high % of calves that come through auctions to get sick or die (% vary from one vet to another, but I have heard them say as high as 40% to get ill, and as many as 10% or more to die).
Jefferdaughter- - Big Concept #1: 'Animals move.' Isn't that one of the characteristics that distinguishes animals from plants?! - Another thought: Animals were meant to be OUTSIDE. Appropriate shelter is sometimes called for, and can often be provided outside: trees in a hedgerow to create a shelterbelt. Or trees dotted across meadows &fields for shade. Or the sunny side of a hill in winter. Etc. Animals were not made to live in barns. The practice of confining animals began in large part to concentrate the manure for use on gardens and grain fields - rather like the bio-digester. (The residue from bio-digesters as it comes out of the process is toxic to plants.)
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Joel Salatin in Idaho: 10 Big Concepts for Agriculture