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Best Chicken-Friendly Vegetables

 13 Best Chicken Vegetables and Herbs



Chickens are a gardener's best friend, providing plenty of free fertilizer and tiling services, but a good garden can help support and nurture your backyard flock with a variety of benefits. The best tasks when hiring chickens are to apply nitrogen to your compost pile, replace the machine plow, fertilize your garden, compost, spread mulch, dispose of your litter, control pests and clean your orchard. For these good reasons, chickens are best friends for you and your garden, aren’t they?


How to maintain them? There are hundreds of plants that are very suitable for raising around chickens and will help keep your chickens healthy. In today’s post, we’ve listed the 13 best chicken-friendly vegetables and herbs for your chicken. These plants can also save you some money because a feed bag can be somewhat expensive, and if you grow these plants, your chickens will love the treats.


1 corn


Corn is one of the favorite fodder for poultry. They love the corn on the dessert side. Therefore, you need to grow one or two rows to feed your chickens.


2 oregano



Oregano is not only an excellent herb for cooking but also a great favorite for chicken. In addition, oregano provides a healthy boost to the immune system because it acts as an antibiotic.


3 carrot greens


Carrot greens are a favorite part of a chicken. So, when you grow carrots, do not throw the greens out of the ground as soon as they are pulled out.


4 watermelon



All parts of the watermelon are chicken favorites. They swallow whole melons - seeds, skin, and flesh.


5 strawberries


Chichen prefers a wide range of berries, so you should take care of them when you grow strawberries in the garden. Or you can feed them your berries that have softened.


6 cucumbers


One of the most favorites of chickens is cucumbers. In addition, the seeds do an excellent job of removing bad intestinal worms.


7 mustard greens



Mustard greens are another leafy green that chickens love. This vegetable contains a lot of nutrients that will help your bird's overall health. In addition, as these greens are attractive to insects, you will also provide insects to your chickens.


8 Swiss chart


The green leaves of the Swiss chart are a treat that chickens love. All leaf varieties of Swiss chart have always been a favorite of chicken.


9 beets and beet greens


Both greens and beet vegetables are excellent ingredients that chickens like. This vegetable does a great job of purifying the blood of your birds and separating them until the chickens have fully consumed them.


10 fennel


Fennel attracts your chickens by producing some delicious seeds. Also, lacy pods will be a treat for your chickens to snack on. Seeds also improve the reproductive health of chickens.


11 Dandelions



Dandelions are edible weeds, and chickens prefer this particular weed.


12 Sunflower


Sunflower produces seeds that will be a delicious treat for you and your chicken

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