The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on May 06, 2013, 03:54:46 pm
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my rhubarb leaves! All the previous years they left it well alone...isn't all the acid bad for them? ::) :chook:
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I thought they were poisonous and was horrified one spring to look out and see that all the leaves had been gobbled in a couple of hours. In previous years, the hens had not touched them. Expected the hens to all pop their clogs but they were fine.
Read at a later date (but I don't remember where) that hens would eat rhubarb at certain times of the year in order to self-medicate and that they were probably a natural wormer.
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think all animals will be munching anything green they can get their teeth on this year, I know my goats and sheep are going mad for any branches I give them just now - best everyone stays a bit more vigilant than usual I think. ;)