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oh mine are going crazy for plantain ... since they don't have any more cleavers/stickyweed as it has all dried up
I've also been pulling the dried berries off the Indian-plum and Oregon-grape bushes, they go for those too -- will fly and flutter and try to hover to get them off the bushes themselves ... I yank down the higher stuff
they like clover too, though I wish they would eat more of the yellow Japanese weed rather than going for the red and white clovers
they don't like sage, I found that out ! thought some of that since I have both standard and purple varieties, would give the run a nice fragrance, but they kicked it right out through the wire into the surrounding ore boxes
may try rosemary or basil instead .. I don't have any but a friend has lots and I could go pick some
I can never keep rosemary growing long enough to keep up with our culinary use (although the current hardy stuff may make it) and the slugs ate every bit of basil I planted this year. On the other hand, there's lemon balm everywhere, so I can pull some for the rest of the chooks tomorrow, if it's not raining again- it's pouring out in South Bay right now, according to my cousins on fb.
I took the last couple of days edible-but-nobody's going-to-eat-it leftovers out and gave the Hamburg pullets bland potato salad, Thai coleslaw, and a smidge of romaine lettuce* with a couple of croutons, with squishy blueberries for desert. The potato salad went first. Now if I could only figure out what I'm supposed to eat for dinner. It's beginning to look like tuna, canned green chilis, onion and cheese of some sort wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla. I keep telling myself that's a really tasty treat, but I'm not buying it anywhere near as well as the Hamburgs are taking to potato salad.
*favorite green for everyone except the young wyandottes, who are still sulking that the bedstraw is gone.
