Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[cluckcluckluke]

It says to blanch the Warrigal green leaves for 3 mins to remove the oxalate's.

I goggled Blanching, if you don't know what it means - Blanching is a cooking process wherein the food substance, usually a vegetable or fruit, is plunged into boiling water, removed after a brief, timed interval, and finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water (shocked) to halt the cooking process.

( taken from Wiki.lol. )

 

[Ashburnham]

Chooks - and most other livestock- also love to eat the leaves of the Tagasaste tree or tree lucerne.

 

[IamSamSam]

Silverbeet is the easiest green to grow for chooks. I have a whole garden bed of it and it self seeds so will last for years. They love it.

Chooks can get sore feed from too much water/mud, or their feet can be caked with dried mud making walking or perching difficult. - it wont happen in 3 days I shouldnt think.



xxx M

Thanks!  My neighbor has heaps of this stuff and was going to give me some. Thanks for the other name, I have an article that says New Zealand spinach and other plants are great to grow for you and your chickens, so was getting confused when she said warrigal green as the article said nothing about it.
The article says nothing about how much to feed them but the Warigal green is part of the list of greens to grow for your poultry.


YES!! Well at least the tanks will get a fill up.

Chicken have scales. For this reason I think that the mush and wet would not affect them, although if they get a cut on their foot in this weather 9 time outta 10 they will get bumble foot. So make sure no nails, glass wire of sharp things are in the run as to try to eliminate this problem .

Oh that's good I have wondered as we seem to be inundated with water / mud of late.

 

[IamSamSam]

Not quite finished

 

[IamSamSam]

The lorpe is none to happy about this new house at the moment.

 

[Spikes Chooks]

The lorpe is none to happy about this new house at the moment.

They're not exactly keen on change! She'll come around!

 

[IamSamSam]

Lol they have no choice lol

I intend to widen the pen and plant mint and wormwood (;-) along the fence behind the pen. That should give me another few days work !

 

[MrViskers]

Any of you folks got away with keeping roosters in the surburbs?
I want to hear your stories, I got a Welsummer rooster that I have had in my yard for over a year now and no council ranger visits since 2011

 

[appps]

Nope , we had last weekend to soundproof our coop or he has to go. Hope to actually get round to it this weekend.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Any of you folks got away with keeping roosters in the surburbs?
I want to hear your stories, I got a Welsummer rooster that I have had in my yard for over a year now and no council ranger visits since 2011

Wouldn't bring this up.lol. We just all got over that!! LOL!

I have 1 little rooster coming up so my neighbors haven't heard him crow, just yet.