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Starburst said:
I just returned from foraging for nettles for some yummy champ
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What is champ? Are those stinging nettles? I've heard they're edible if they're cooked.

I heard chickens like stinging nettles, and I have a lot of that growing. I picked a bunch last summer, dried it, stripped off the leaves, and crumbled them to add to the chickens' food over the winter.

The chickens hadn't heard that chickens like it, so they didn't. :gig
 
Sally PB said:
What is champ? Are those stinging nettles? I've heard they're edible if they're cooked.

I heard chickens like stinging nettles, and I have a lot of that growing. I picked a bunch last summer, dried it, stripped off the leaves, and crumbled them to add to the chickens' food over the winter.

The chickens hadn't heard that chickens like it, so they didn't. :gig
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Stinging nettles? You're feeding those to your chickens! :eek: I've heard that stinging nettles is like some type of seriously good medicine or something!(Don't worry though. I've heard that plantain is also good medicine, and that's always my bird's favorite treat. { Except for my current flock... They too hadn't heard that is my chickens favorite treat, so like yours, they don't like it. :gig})
 
Sally PB said:
What is champ? Are those stinging nettles? I've heard they're edible if they're cooked.

I heard chickens like stinging nettles, and I have a lot of that growing. I picked a bunch last summer, dried it, stripped off the leaves, and crumbled them to add to the chickens' food over the winter.

The chickens hadn't heard that chickens like it, so they didn't. :gig
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Champ is basically mashed potatoes with stinging nettles in it. (It’s really quite yummy!)
(Once cooked, their also apparently great for allergies and eczema. :D)
It was really peaceful to go out gathering the nettles - the forest was filled with birdsong and flowers were beginning to bloom - its almost spring! 🌷
 
Plantain was my chickens' first favorite food. I can't wait until it's up and growing! I hope they still like it...

Oh, the woods can be so peaceful! Today not so much, as it's VERY windy. So I went down to my garden, which is in a bit of a valley. I picked a bucket full of just-starting-to-grow weeds and gave them to the chickens.

There's a reason "chicken" almost rhymes with "magician." They turn weeds into eggs!

Even though it's about 40 degrees, the wind is making it feel a lot colder. So I'm staying inside more today.

Here's a kindness and positivity thought: don't forget to be kind and positive to yourself. You can't give it away if you don't have some. Never feel bad about taking care of yourself. Like they say in the emergency briefing on airplanes: if the masks come down, put one over your own face before you help someone else. If you pass out, you can't help anyone.
 
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Hey everyone! The theme for today's challenges is inspired by this quote - today, why don’t you decide what you're going to do to be “A rainbow in someone else's cloud, ” and feel free to share what you did! :hugs
 
That reminded me of a story I read in Reader's Digest many (many-many) years ago, as one of their funny-true page filler bits.
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A station wagon with four nuns was returning from a trip into a not-very-good neighborhood when the car stalled at an intersection. The Sisters looked around, all they saw were rough looking guys on their motorcycles staring at them. The Sisters bent their heads and prayed.

One of the toughest looking in the bunch walked over and tapped on the driver's window. The sister rolled the window down a few inches.

"Hey, Sister, if you pop the hood, I think I can get this started again." She popped the hood.

The biker fiddled with something, then stuck his head up and said, "Ok, now start it up."

The engine started, and the biker slammed the hood back down.

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" the Sister said.

"That's ok, Sister," said the biker, "I ain't never been the answer to someone's prayer before."
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So you never know in what form help will be. Or how you might help someone else.

(For those too young to know, the nun had flooded the engine. The biker opened the butterfly valve on the carburetor to let more air in, and then the gas/air mixture was such that the engine could start. Oh, the good old days before fuel injected engines...)
 
Sally PB said:
That reminded me of a story I read in Reader's Digest many (many-many) years ago, as one of their funny-true page filler bits.
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A station wagon with four nuns was returning from a trip into a not-very-good neighborhood when the car stalled at an intersection. The Sisters looked around, all they saw were rough looking guys on their motorcycles staring at them. The Sisters bent their heads and prayed.

One of the toughest looking in the bunch walked over and tapped on the driver's window. The sister rolled the window down a few inches.

"Hey, Sister, if you pop the hood, I think I can get this started again." She popped the hood.

The biker fiddled with something, then stuck his head up and said, "Ok, now start it up."

The engine started, and the biker slammed the hood back down.

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" the Sister said.

"That's ok, Sister," said the biker, "I ain't never been the answer to someone's prayer before."
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So you never know in what form help will be. Or how you might help someone else.

(For those too young to know, the nun had flooded the engine. The biker opened the butterfly valve on the carburetor to let more air in, and then the gas/air mixture was such that the engine could start. Oh, the good old days before fuel injected engines...)
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Wow! What a beautiful story! I remember this time that someone was going through a very rough time. They needed air in their tire, so they drove up to the air pump and sat there. They knew how to take a tire off, reline it, and put it back on, but because they were going through such a hard time, they couldn't even get out of the car to put the quarter in the machine and fill the tire with air. Well, some stranger drove up and offered to fill the tire! The person that was going through the rough time said that the stranger was an angel to them.
 
Lacy Duckwing said:
Stinging nettles? You're feeding those to your chickens! :eek: I've heard that stinging nettles is like some type of seriously good medicine or something!(Don't worry though. I've heard that plantain is also good medicine, and that's always my bird's favorite treat. { Except for my current flock... They too hadn't heard that is my chickens favorite treat, so like yours, they don't like it. :gig})
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If you dry them, they don't sting. They do have good properties, like Plantain! Actually, dried nettle can help sooth nettle stings! Weird, right?

Speaking of Plantain, I need to transplant some of them from the mountains to my house for my family and the chickens!
 

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