[CHICKENS-101] Plants chickens like to eat

 

What do chickens eat on pasture?  Invertebrates are their favorites, but I'm still working out methods of attracting tasty insects and worms for the flock to consume.  

(Keeping a compost pile in each pasture is a good start.)  Meanwhile, I did some research and then kept notes on the plants our chickens enjoyed.

Traditional chicken pastures tend to be either unimproved pastures (ie whatever survives repeated close grazing), or mixtures of legumes (white clover and subclovers), grasses (orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, and annual ryegrass), and weeds.  Some farmers plant annuals like oats or rye in certain plots for winter forage.

Complete Article : http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2012/09/plants-chickens-like-to-eat.html

 

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