12-23-2008, 05:32 PM
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
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