How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] dandelions

Wish you lived closer. I have dandelions out the wazoo here. I think we have more weeds than actual grass. Chickens, ducks, guineas free range so they love it.
Need seeds? I can send Tony on a mission. I also have boxtops to send you.
Sonny has been so busy he has let "our yard" over grow, mows his Mom's. He finally got ours last night. The tribe has been in heaven! They have been picking seeds off of everything. I love to watch the ducks pull the weeds thru their bills. Of course the goats are jealous.

Gothy in DE

http://fullmoonchickens.blogspot.com/

From: CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@yahoo.com>
To: "CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com" <CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:00 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] dandelions

See if you can picture my plan for a dandelion patch/garden for feed for my chickens. Dandelions like tilled soil. I am going to till an area wide enough for 3 rows and 150ft, maybe 200 ft long. I am going to plant seed; I have kids picking dandelion seed heads for 5 cents each/$5.00 per hundred seed heads. 
Three rows of dandelion seed planted, fertilized, kept tilled, and watered like a regular garden. When they get up in height I'll use a mower w/ mulching blades, set on medium high, with a bagger to mow them. Every time the dandelions get tall enough I'll mow them and have chopped greens for my chickens. I'll keep them weeded except for the chickweed. I'll gather up the chickweed with the dandelions. When they bloom I'll collect the seed heads right as they are going to   open, till areas my pens, and plant the seeds in the chicken pens. What do you think? Will it work?
Cathryn     rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan