Is it ok to Put Sea Grass in my Chicken Run?

[Ribh]

So I would ask, how significant is the difference between sea grass and sea weed? The article below endorses sea weed for chickens touting its nutritional benefits. I'm not sure why seagrass would be different.

https://www.poultryworld.net/Nutrit...enefits-of-seaweed-in-poultry-diets-2761921W/

I don't know, Bob. I'm not a scientist. I can tell you the dugong [manatee] feed on sea grass, not seaweed, & that I have to soak & rinse the stuff if I want to use it on the garden beds because of the salt. Other than that I'm clueless ~ which is why I'm asking? There's some very scientific sorts on here.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Are you expecting them to Eat it, or just fuss with it?

 

[Ribh]

Are you expecting them to Eat it, or just fuss with it?

Fuss with it. I don't think it's poisonous as such but it will have a very high salt content.

 

[BY Bob]

If what you are worried about is salt content I can't imagine that the grass holds more than the seaweed. It's still a form of grass, however it is not porous like normal grass. That also would lead me to think no worries. It can't be full of salt.

I actually don't like to give cut grass to my flock because they can't easily control the length they eat as they can when plucking it off the rooted plant.

I think it would make great compost. Have you thought about piling it up and every so often letting them have at it. Not to eat the grass but to eat what is living in the pile of grass?

 

[Ribh]

Have you thought about pulling it up and every so often letting them have at it. Not to eat the grass but to eat what is living in the pile of grass?

Um...that's actually illegal round here. It's protected because it supports a complicated eco system that includes the dugongs.

I'm sure someone must have thought about this before. There's such piles of the stuff & it makes great mulch once rinsed.

 

[Ribh]

I actually don't like to give cut grass to my flock because they can't easily control the length they eat as they can when plucking it off the rooted plant.

I hadn't actually even thought about them eating it. That opens up a whole nuther train of thought with crop disasters such like.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey mine get cut grass allot not thinking it is allot different

 

[Ribh]

Hey mine get cut grass allot not thinking it is allot different

Ok, thanks Penny!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Try a little test case light the first time no truckload

 

[Ribh]

Try a little test case light the first time no truckload

Oh, it will be light! I've got to lug it up our hill!