A little over a month and a half into our "live food" experiments, there are no results yet.
We've set success criteria and teams will have a full 6 months to prove their food source is sustainable and desirable as a food source.
Each team is working with two breeds. They must choose between those two breeds and show they're getting good yields.
The chicken team is using "Turkens" and "Plymouth Rocks." These chickens have to lay enough good-sized eggs and some will be eaten as meat. Those Turkens are the ugliest chickens I've ever seen, but I've been assured they are worth having.
The fish team is working with Carp and Tilapia. I've actually never eaten either. Their criteria include how quickly they grow, but also how good they taste.
The rabbit team has these monster big rabbits called Flemish Giants and also Palomino (having never owned a Palomino horse, I can't say if they look similar?!) Rabbits are famous for breeding quickly, so litter size and amount of weight produced in the least time will be important.
Sometime in May we'll know which food source or sources we'll keep pursuing (if any?) and which we'll abandon (if any?!)
I hope all three succeed because I would prefer all of these fresh!
We've set success criteria and teams will have a full 6 months to prove their food source is sustainable and desirable as a food source.
Each team is working with two breeds. They must choose between those two breeds and show they're getting good yields.
The chicken team is using "Turkens" and "Plymouth Rocks." These chickens have to lay enough good-sized eggs and some will be eaten as meat. Those Turkens are the ugliest chickens I've ever seen, but I've been assured they are worth having.
The fish team is working with Carp and Tilapia. I've actually never eaten either. Their criteria include how quickly they grow, but also how good they taste.
The rabbit team has these monster big rabbits called Flemish Giants and also Palomino (having never owned a Palomino horse, I can't say if they look similar?!) Rabbits are famous for breeding quickly, so litter size and amount of weight produced in the least time will be important.
Sometime in May we'll know which food source or sources we'll keep pursuing (if any?) and which we'll abandon (if any?!)
I hope all three succeed because I would prefer all of these fresh!