Morning Feed

This daylight the chooks had a different Morning Mash!

As we are down to 8 ‘new’ girls and 3 oldies now I only use 1 scoop of bran/pollard and half a scoop of meatmeal.
As I had some ‘not so fresh milk and yoghurt’ in the fridge I warmed that up and used it to mix the mash. I thereupon popped out to the garden for some extras…

the Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is thriving
over in the habitat garden
so I picked a couple of handfuls and chopped them into the mash
…read that

article for info on Purslane…

a few garlic leaves from the Strawberry Tankbed…

and some tips off the Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
just a few leaves considering too much is a poison,
but it’s a useful wormer.

In with that I added half a crust off the bread from yesterday…chopped up small…it was plenty for them.

This was topped off with 2 lettuce plants that were starting to bolt to seed…and quite a few earwigs in that morning’s collection (the cooler weather is keeping them hanging around that year!)

[Source] Scarecrow