[Ag-eq] Gardening for your chickens

[Susan Roe]

A good treet for your hens is a head of cabbage and watermellon rines.  Mine 
can strip a half of watermelon rine down to the thinnest skin in a day.  We 
were told to give them a head of cabbage about once a month or so to keep 
them from being board.  If they are not occupied, they tend to pick on the 
weekest among themselves and will actually peck a hen to death.  They also 
like young corn stalks about 3 feet tall.  Always give your hens corn 
shucks, they go after them like potato chips.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Gardening for your chickens


> Susan:
>
> My chickens will not eat any part of citrus fruit.  They will eat 
> everything
> else.  The goats and mules love citrus fruit, so nothing ever goes to 
> waste.
>
> Most people around here including myself, have some type of citrus tree, 
> so
> there's always lots of oranges and grape fruits available.  A couple of
> neighbors give me fruit for the animals.  My old mule Jack loves to chase 
> grape
> fruits around!
>
> Nella
>
>
>
> Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:
>
>> Don't forget to feed some of your garden to your future chickens.  I have
>> not found one vegetable, fruit or natural organic material that my hens
>> won't eat with gusto.  Also, they will go after any small living creature
>> that doesn't out run them.  Bugs, crickets, grasshoppers, mice, frogs,
>> lizards and snakes.  We laugh about the hens in coop 2 that are Bard 
>> Rocks
>> and Buff Orphingtons that do not have a rooster.  They are a bit pushy
>> without a rooster, so they can get a bit impatient at feeding time.  My
>> husband tells me to never fall down in the run before I feed them or I 
>> just
>> might find myself on their dinner minue!
>>
>> Susan
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred's ol' XP" <regenerative at earthlink.net>
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>>
>> > Ya, Kendra has good advice.
>> > I am a Permaculturist, and incorporate a lot of verticality in my 
>> > gardens.
>> > If you're feeling industrious, plant a bunch of pumpkins!  If all goes
>> > well, you'll sell or trade most of them in October and November.
>> >
>> > I like to grow popping corn, peanuts, and pumpkins.  If your dogs can 
>> > keep
>> > squirrels from eating everything, that'll help.
>> > Good luck!
>> > Fred
>> >
>> >
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