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Three and a half hours today. The sun shone for much of the day and there were signs of the ground slowly drying out.
Everyone was a bit calmer today.
Everyone was a bit calmer today.
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There are lots of different species in the genus Artemisia, so lots of variety in detail, but I don't think burs are part of this plant's structure (the ones that inspired Velcro are burdock); perhaps you're thinking of something else?All the burs
further to this, and his observation that chickens eat soil more often than commonly noticed, and my flock's recent hard working of a patch of lawn/ soil where mushrooms typically appear so must be dense with mycelium, I am pursuing funga.Worthington is of the opinion that there's a natural coccidiostat in greenstuff but confesses to lacking lab results to support it.
I've been convinced for many years that chickens can self medicate given a sufficient diversity of soil conditions and plant life.further to this, and his observation that chickens eat soil more often than commonly noticed, and my flock's recent hard working of a patch of lawn/ soil where mushrooms typically appear so must be dense with mycelium, I am pursuing funga.
It turns out that some, including the common oyster mushroom, are predators of nematodes, and the oyster paralyses its prey, using a toxin that is calcium-rich. And this is a highly conserved mechanism (goes deep back in evolutionary time, at least 280,000,000 years), so is probably present in far more species than has, as yet, been discovered. Sounds like a win-win for a pullet or hen looking to keep her worm burden down and make eggshells.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1918473117
It is funga that's rotting it, and probably the funga that they're after.Rotting natural wood also seems to be attractive at a certain level of decay
Burs was just an example of what they have cleared out. I noticed that the burdock, cleavers and other sticky stuff. Also ragweed, wild aster, dandelion and plantain are mostly gone. Snake weed and goldenrod are taking over.There are lots of different species in the genus Artemisia, so lots of variety in detail, but I don't think burs are part of this plant's structure (the ones that inspired Velcro are burdock); perhaps you're thinking of something else?
they're eating the good stuff!Burs was just an example of what they have cleared out. I noticed that the burdock, cleavers and other sticky stuff. Also ragweed, wild aster, dandelion and plantain are mostly gone. Snake weed and goldenrod are taking over.
I guess it's snake root. Ageratina altissimathey're eating the good stuff!
what is snake weed?
not sure about that ID. Cf. https://pfaf.org/USER/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Leonurus+cardiaca for picture inc flowers; does it look like that when it blooms?