Wintertime greens

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For those of with no pasture for chickens, and snow on the ground, what are you giving your chickens to supplement their green diet? It is so cold the weeds will not even grow.
Yes I know that will change in a coupe of months!
 
Sprouts! I sprouted barley and the chickens loved it, greens and roots.
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I buy a bale of alfalfa hay. It's pricy but one bale lasts me an entire winter. I only feed one 3 inch flake every other day or so when the coop stays closed as it's too cold and snowy outside.
PS..I am in Michigan.
The chickens love to scratch threw it and pick out the tiny leaves that are packed with nutrition.
They leave the stalks behind, and I rake that up and fork it outside where the wild rabbits eat that up.
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