Herbs for Hens™: Five Herbs Your Chickens Will Love
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2014
- Plant some culinary herbs for your chickens to enjoy. Some of my favorites include: Lavender, Mint, Oregano, Parsley and Sage.
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Thank you for the informative video, going to try starting some echinacea from seed today even if it isn't exactly spring anymore. Love your book, it has become my "chicken bible" :)
Beautifully simple vid. Thanks!
Mints grow like crazy. If you have space, a great idea is to plant it as a border outside your chicken fence. As it grows, the chickens will be able to take pieces of it, but not enough to kill the plant, it is like a year-round drip feeder.
Yes! Great idea! Also should help keep mice out.
Thanks!! We have trouble growing garlic here with our Michigan growing season. I was thinking of substituting chives for garlic. I will try an experiment this summer.
Thanks!
love your videos! Thanks for sharing!
thanks for watching!
Very helpfull, thanx.
thank you for this information, getting back in the chicken business . trying to go more natural this time
Very useful video, good herbs equal happy chicken.
Yes, thanks
Thanks for your video I was wondering what kind of herbs that chickens like
Looks great, thanks for sharing.
Mint I haven't seen chicken feeding on but they love garlic chives
I have some herbs at my little garden, tumeric plant, garlic, lavender, srikaya tree (sugarapple) and others. since i live in Indonesia most of hem are herbs n tropical fruit. my chicken jus peck n eat everything in there. idk is it right or wrong, but my chicken nvr get sick nor bird flu.
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To my knowledge, the only food that might possibly taint the flavor of eggs is asparagus, other than that, there is no one food that will make your eggs taste like that food. Not even garlic. I don't beleve feeding cabbage results in cabbage-flavored eggs, and neither will herbs taint the taste of your eggs.
***** Hi Lisa, The cabbage(organic home grown) I fed them did indeed make my eggs taste like cabbage. The taste occurred a little after I fed them the cabbage. They were terrible for a while till it was out of their system. Now their eggs are good again. If your saying this doesn't taint the eggs, what in the world would it have been?
Robin L To my knowledge no specific food changes the taste of eggs. Foods don't flow direclty into the egg, so I would think it was the cabbage.
The taste of food doesn't translate into the eggs. Never has never will. My chickens eat cabbage all the time, garlic in their feed every day...their eggs never taste of either. That's not how it works.
I know y’all talking about herbs but don’t feed your chickens to much fish.....makes eggs taste a little weird.
they are ALL mints. had to double check the sage...it is a mint
Hi Lisa! I started following you on Instagram and found your YT channel. I am really into the idea of adding herbs to my nesting boxes, but am curious if it affects the flavor if the egg? Thanks for any advice.
Does sage give your eggs a different taste? I gave my chickens some cabbage and I got cabbage tasting eggs. Never will do that again. Just wondering about the taste of sage.
What would you suggest that I could plant in the chickens run as a weed surpresant and forage, ground cover that likes the shade, thanks. And safe for the chickens.
Oh whatever you plant, they'll just scratch up and nibble on so you'll end up with dirt again. It's a losing battle.
Hi!
Thank you for all the wonderful tips you share. We have a older hen who has just started experiencing some arthritis and I’m wondering if you could recommend something to add to her daily regimen so she’s more comfortable?
Thank you!
There are a couple of things that can help with inflammation. Specifically,ginger, garlic, rosemary, turmeric, black pepper, cardamom.
@@FreshEggsDaily Thank you!
Thulasi, moringa leaves, turmeric, neem, banana stems, wheat sprout, papaya leaves ,garlic, pearl millet,are best medicine for chicken
Thank so muchos for the information, how often can they eat veggies
Oh mine eat veggies nearly every day.
All day long, every day. Like they did 1000s of years ago.
I will be buying some lavender seeds or plants. In the seed catalogs they show at least 5 different varieties. Does it matter which one I choose to grow around the chickens? Does all lavender act as an insecticide?
yes,any variety has nearly the same benefits. so choose the ones you like.
Do they like basil? That is one of my favorite herbs 🙂
Yes absolutely! They love basil.
Your lavender plant looks different from yours. What type of lavender do you have? English, Germany.
Oh I have no idea what variety it is.
Hay Your in my video that I bought from Justin. Glad to find you. If you know any tricks about raising chicken in a HOA that does not allow chickens please let me know. I have 13 hans. No roosters. We have wild ducks that walk behind my house all the time so I think the neighbors think the ducks are making the noise when the hans are laying their eggs. I’ve heard if you say you don’t own them and you’re babysitting them that’s one loop hole. The other loophole I heard if it’s a 4H project. They can’t do anything about it. If you know anymore loopholes please let me know.
Welcome! So...I personally wouldn't live in an HOA. Too many rules, too many people putting their noses in my business. I would actually work to change the HOA rules. Any loophole and you're taking a chance on having to get rid of them after investing a lot of time and money....
How about chives? I have lots of these too. Also wormwood....I've read that that is great for a natural wormer Do you have any experience with those two herbs?
I wouldn't be surprised about chives since they're in the same family as garlic which is also a natural wormer, but I've never read specifically. Wormwood yes for sure - I just don't happen to grow it nor have I ever given any to my chickens, but for sure its an option.
Are dry herbs just as good for the chicken water as fresh? My hubby puts herbs in their waterer, but he was wondering if they lose their effectiveness being wet.
6996katmom oh yes dried is fine.
I am curious what the spoon in your herb garden is for, do tell please.
Herb markers
What can chickens get from eating mint ??
All the culinary herbs have wonderful health benefits.www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2014/02/common-herbs-and-their-health-benefits.html
10 q for your video
'Erbs'! What is it with Americans that they can't say 'Herbs', with an 'H', do you see? hu,hu, Herbs. Get it?
Sorry but I stand by my pronunciation: It came from the Old French word erbe, which came from the Latin word, herba. When herb came into being, Latin had lost its H sound, and it also was not pronounced in French. ... So, if we were to pronounce herb as history had it originally, the American pronunciation would be on target.
@@FreshEggsDaily French pronounce it 'airbe', not erb. Sounds nice in French, shite in Amerikan. Just my opinion. Plus nobody knows how Latin was pronounced, as my old Latin teacher explained, we just guess. No recordings, see.
Olive Farmer
It seems you have quite an unhappy life. This was an excellent, informative and comforting video yet you come here to complain and bring strife for no apparent reason. I’m guessing you just don’t like Americans for some some socially-engineered reason. I feel so sorry for you, to have no peace and comfort, no love in your heart for your fellow man. It’s so sad.
@@amy3458 Wrong. I'm full of love and surrounded by it. I also have taught English to non-native speakers for years, with great success, loved by my students. It is as a native English speaker and teacher that I decry the weird pronunciation of American English. If we are sloppy with the language, so it degenerates into unintelligible gibberish and is weakened as a communication tool between we humans.
Get me?
You will never be able to standardize all the differences between American and British English. You will lose. I know, married to a Brit. I suggest relax and and enjoy the variety of life. Differences are okay and even make life interesting.