Herbs For Chickens

By Kathryn Robles

Many people know how useful herbs can be both for cooking and wellness, but did you know that you can use herbs for your chickens too?

Growing herbs for chickens is easy and it’s a good husbandry practice.

Herbs are easy to grow and many of them grow in less than perfect circumstances, making them a great way to spruce up your yard and pamper your flock at the same time.

Find out how to start using herbs with your flock!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kathryn Robles
• Release date: Aug 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005534691

Kathryn Robles

Kathryn writes about her family’s adventures creating an urban farm in the city, even if that means overcoming her black thumb or having chickens taking a dust bath under the trampoline. She never expected to find herself farming in the city, or farming at all, but it turns out she loves it! What’s better is she loves talking about it and sharing what she's learned with others.

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Introduction

Many people know how useful herbs can be both for cooking and wellness, but did you know that you can use herbs for your chickens too? Growing herbs for chickens is easy and it’s a good husbandry practice.

Herbs are easy to grow and many of them grow in less than perfect circumstances, making them a great way to spruce up your yard and pamper your flock at the same time. Herbs have many different nutrients in them. By adding them into your chicken's diet, you can help them stay healthy and get those awesome gorgeous yolks that make raising your own eggs so wonderful.

Growing herbs for chickens is easy. Chances are, you already have many herbs growing on your property that are useful when raising chickens. And if you don’t, it’s easy to start your own from cuttings in water.

By adding herbs into your husbandry practices your chickens are more likely to be at their optimal health. You can avoid potential problems as well as expensive solutions. Plus, adding herbs into your feed will save you money, even if you are buying prepackaged chicken feed.

You may not have the space, or even WANT to grow a patch of corn and soy for your birds, but it’s easy to add some attractive herbs around the homestead. Herbs are an easy way to step up your chicken keeping with very little effort and lots of reward.

If you aren’t aware of all the good reasons to grow herbs in your garden, there are some more reasons you need to learn about herbs for both you and your flock.

I never knew much about herbs until a couple years ago. Sometimes my mom had me take St. John’s Wort when I was feeling down, but I never understood why, or could tell if it made any kind of difference. Then I found out while pregnant with my third child I was severely anemic and if I didn’t get my iron levels up I was going to be at risk of hemorrhage. The crazy thing was, I knew my iron was low at the beginning