During the El Nino, when the ponds in the farm dried up, the Water Lily was still abundant and we saw that the chickens went down to play....or so we thought. After a closer look (I have posted a thread on this previously), the Sunshines eat the Water Lily!
We searched in it and read that it is edible and had medicinal properties. We had tons of Water Lily and cleaning up the ponds had been a problem!
So to make it easier for the free ranging chickens, the farm help brings up some for the white Sunshines, since they thought that they were "special" and might not know what they are to do. We all took it that they didn't know how to eat. We forgot about "instinct" to get what is good for oneself :)
Convinced that it was indeed good for the chickens, we tried using it for FPJ. This will be a great answer to our clean up of the ponds all around the farm, at the same time giving good nutrients to the pastured chickens.
Too much to clean up and it thickens faster than we can manually chop chop.
To ease up work, a shredder/chopper will be the answer. A great farm tool. More on that on another posting.
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