Vetch is toxic to non-ruminants. To be fair, many legumes must be cooked in order to be healthy food for humans. I’d probably not feed it to birds but I haven’t seen it much on our land and I don’t worry. The cows eat before the chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese anyway. Birds also seem to be pretty good about knowing what’s edible and what’s not, just imo. If it’s growing in your pens though, I’d pull it.
Wait on the splay leggers. I've seen them correct themselves in a day.I'm going to have to euthanize at least 4 I think. Still have some pipped and one just hatched like 20 minutes ago. Your hatch stats are way higher than mine!
My chickens will pull hairy vetch out of the weed piles. The CX cleaned it out of the area. As with all things, moderation.
Yes. No bueno for me.
Good to know... thanks!
I can not do the whole raw thing yet.You could just give it to them raw then you don’t have to deal with the smell
Also more nutrients that way haha
But I’m glad you are at least giving them whole now, that’s an improvement
You probably could cook them whole. Maybe in the oven or on a grill? I don’t think it would stink the house up. Some people cook and eat the organs for themselves and I think they do it in the house? So it can’t be too bad haha
But maybe you could do it outside on a grill or something? That way it wouldn’t stink up the house and you could just cook them lightly too and not overdo it aha
Probably the only way
