If you leave chickens to their own devices around your property, it won’t be long before you notice them chowing down on all sorts of plants, including ones that you grow in your own garden! As it turns out, some of chickens’ favorite foods happen to be kitchen herbs that we use ourselves. Chickens are
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Alfalfa has been raised as provender for livestock for millennia in various places around the globe, a practice that continues to this very day. Although it’s typically thought of as feed for larger animals like horses and cattle, other animals can eat alfalfa and not just mammals at that. How about our precious chickens? Will
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Pretty much every chicken keeper knows that their birds will eat all sorts of green plants and vegetables, including many of the same ones that we eat. Some of their favorites just so happen to be salad vegetables, including all kinds of lettuce, cabbage, and more. Today we will look at arugula, at turns loved
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Chickens are well known to be highly adventurous and enthusiastic eaters. In the wild, or just left to free roam, chickens will eat a little bit of everything, including plants. Some of these plants fall way outside the norm by human standards when it comes to ediblity, yet chickens can eat many with no issues
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Chickens are content eating just about anything, but if I’ve noticed one thing about these birds over the years it is that they seem especially enthusiastic about a perfectly ripe berry. And who can blame them? There’s just something about the sweet juiciness of berries that makes you feel good, and clearly it makes chickens
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Quails are making a comeback as poultry, and every year we see more and more homesteaders and farmers come around to the advantages of these unique and small birds. They produce high-quality meat and tiny but scrumptious eggs, and it’s a lot easier to keep more quails in a space that is much smaller than
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Do you like cilantro? Either you do, and quite a bit, or you absolutely detest it…It seems there is no in-between, and a significant portion of the population has a legitimate genetic hatred of the stuff. Really! Some people swear up and down it tastes just like a bar of soap. I’ll tell you one
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Quails are making a comeback in terms of popularity compared to other kinds of poultry. Quail meat and quail eggs are highly nutritious, and quail are so much smaller than chickens so can be easily kept on much smaller properties and in close quarters. Quail have a diet that’s similar to, but distinct, from other
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There is no denying that chickens have some of the most varied appetites of any livestock species. There’s seemingly nothing that these birds won’t eat… Chickens are omnivores in the truest sense, and whether it is meat, vegetables, or fruits, if they can reach it, they’ll want it. Chickens can even eat some things that
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When most people think of birds, the first thing they think of is that they subsist entirely on a diet of worms and seeds. But most birds have a diet that is significantly more varied than that. Birds in the wild have to make do with whatever they can catch, find or forage, but the
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