Forward Organic Resource Management

[Scott_S]

Here is a link to an online book, a very interesting read. I was looking to see if anyone was feeding banana leaves to their chickens, is anyone here doing it?

http://www.formatkenya.org/ormbook/

Scott

[lquade]

my chickens love banana leaves, new tender ones best. also cut the whole thing and chop up the big stock so they can get to the tasty, stringy insides..

[james weatherford]

High fiber, which isn't so great for monogastrics (e.g., chickens, pigs, humans, horses) as for ruminants (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats).

Our chickens enthusiastically eat the banana flower when we cut it off (after a sufficient number of hands have formed on the bunch and we cut off the flower to put the energy into the fruit). What the chickens eat is the immature fruit in the flower.

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James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[mella l]

My cousin who raises chickens feeds them the standard scratch with some shell added but supplements their diet with swiss chard. Boy do the chickens loooooovvvveee swiss chard!

mella l

[csgray]

I recently came across a mention of feeding chickens the waste coconut left over from expressing coconut oil. Anyone feeding their chickens coconut meat?

Carol