❤🐔🐓❤ very informative video 😍

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words, they are appreciated as always. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

Fascinating. I never knew this about pollarding. Thanks Sue. You've inspired me to think about ways to introduce more food variety for my chickens who live in my urban garden.

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and you are so welcome as always. I have written quite a lot on this subject on my site the Holistic Hen and did include some ideas for an urban garden. I'm about to try the great Tree Hay experiment but unfortunately just after we cut the trees the rains came and haven't stopped since. I had to quickly stuff all the branches in the compost toilet cabin - so that is a bit inconvenient but hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get them tied up and stored in the roof spaces of the hen houses and hopefully the weather will be good enough for long enough for me to film. Here is the link for the articles: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2021/04/Tree-Fodder-Poulty-Livestock-Free-Food-Traditional-Farming.html#.YOSaOLpvaV5 Much love from a very rainy evening in Normandie, Sue xx

Very interesting. I hadn't heard about this process before. I live in the tropical mountains, so it isn't needed here so much. But I do want to notice what my hens are interested in. Thank you for the idea.

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there Jean, you are very welcome. It must be fascinating to watch what your hens eat in such an environment, which must be so much nearer to their true 'paleo' diet. I'm guessing you probably have a wealth of invertebrate life for them to hunt as well. Mine got the debris from Spider crabs yesterday as our neighbour, who is a fisherman, brought us some round - they are known here as May crabs, as it is the best time for them. The chickens went mad, what with that and the leaves! All the very best form Normandie Sue xx

You are so knowledgeable.

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Aaww that is such a kind comment - I try to learn more with each day and my poultry are such great teachers. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

That is really really interesting Sue. I will go to your blog and see what I may have in the garden for the girls. Take care, Mags

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there Mags! I think you will find you probably have quite a haul of free food around your garden - sycamore for a start! I know even pine and holly too are good livestock feeds in Scotland and it will be interesting to see what the chickens make of them! Hope everything is going well - it has been much colder than usual here, so what with the reports I get from My Mother and sister, I'm guessing it has been colder than usual for you too. Keep warm! Sue xx

@mygardenanddinosaurs

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl wow! So I could try the girls with sycamore leaves and pine too? That sounds interesting. I have 5 sycamores and a Scots Pine 😊

As always you've inspired me to be a better chicken mom! this has given me many ideas and reinforced what I had wanted to do before watching this.

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you so much for those lovely comments, they are appreciated as always. I believe this approach of using what we have on our land or adding to the perennial growth is the way to go forward. I have relied for years on the free greenery and fruit that my local organic shop provides but in this uncertain World being as self-reliant as possible is a really important goal. Much love from Normandie, Sue xx

I have 3 dogs who love to eat the leaves of my viburnum bush, lol 😂 I’ve never heard of air meadows and I find it very interesting! I went on your blog and looked at the links and its amazing how God provides for every creature.

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there Gina, did you look up viburnum on the data base and see what it said, they are high in calcium, I wonder if that was it - I know some of the plant calcium is extremely bioavailable, which is I believe why my birds eat a lot of petals like rose and apple. I found it interesting that the sheep seemed to seek for the tannins at the time of year when the leaves were at an optimum and when I did my previous research just on hedges, I found several examples of interesting evidence that horses about to foal would eat willow leaves for their pain-killing virtues. I think animals and birds have an incredible sense of the richness of the natural world and its bounties, whereas too many humans have lost so much of that knowledge. I find it interesting that in Europe we lost the idea of leaf fodder at the same time the continent was gearing up for intensive agriculture, which was brought in before the First World War. I'm looking forward to seeing how I get on with making tree hay in June, I think the storing of it will be the most challenging, so as to keep it green but not musty or so dried out it shatters into crumbs! Thank you for looking at the blog articles, you gave me a wake-up call to go and check I had set up a link between the two articles - it was a bit messy as they are Part 8 and Part 9 of the Food for Free Series but Part 1 and 2 of the Air Meadows section and I don't think I'd made that clear enough! All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

There is a pegons stuck in an empty neighboring apartment, how can you help me rescue it, what number to call?

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Cecilia, you can either just phone the owner of the apartment block and get them to come and let it out or you could ask them to contact the Society that rescues and/or protects birds and animals in the country where you live. In general pigeons are very smart birds, so if you open a window in the apartment if should know to fly out. As it has gone into an empty house and if it is an adult, then the possibilities are it is a tame pigeon or even a racer, in that case there will be a ring on its foot with code numbers, these will give you the club and country to which the bird belongs and using this code on line you will be able to contact the owner. If it is a baby and needs help then you will have to feed it or find someone who can care for it and look after it - I have several videos on this topic and there are also plenty of others on-line to help. . Good Luck and all the very best, Sue