Are you looking for an affordable, simple way to boost productivity in your flock? Are you being overrun with pests? Flies? Mites? Rats!? Do you sell eggs? Would your customers like to see that signature deep, rich, orange color to their yolks that says “Home grown and farm fresh”? Maybe you just like to “Mother” your hens? All the best for the girls, right? Whatever the reason, and there are many, you, and your chickens can benefit from the use of herbs!
Today on the show, Amber and Shannon talk dig deep into the cabinet of curiosities, and pull out an old “Snake oil” product; “The Sex Finder”. Was there a now forgotten technology for home sexing….anything… on the farm? Check out the “Annihilator” of all prior chicken sexing technology!
Speaking of technology, chickens are at the forefront of the science of protecting people from the ravages of mosquito-borne diseases! Would you believe that the solution to malaria might be smelling like a chicken? Can you use chickens as a natural mosquito repellant? Amber has the story!
Were going to talk about chickens that would fool any sex detector; would you believe a chicken thats half male and half female? You would!? Well how about a chicken thats female on one side and male on the other? Its one of those things that happens in Amber’s Cabinet of Curiosities!
Today were going to take a look at incorporating herbs into your chicken raising. Herbs can be used for countless purposes in caring for your flock, and can be used topically (such as lining the nest with insect deterring plants) or internally. Herbs can be used for a number of purposes; They deter parasites, internal and external, improve overall health and immunity, can be used curatively, and will even keep flies and other insects at bay, just by leaving them around the coop. Herbs can be a low-cost, low effort method of solving or preventing a number of problems that we chicken tenders face. Have a listen to some of Ambers tips for using herbs in the coop, and start having healthy, relaxed, and bug-free birds today!
Lastly, we bring you another strange and unusual ballad by Tacheo Ischi; you might want to click through after you listen to the show to see the video for “Chicken Attack“; the story of good overcoming evil with the power of the chicken. You know you needed it, You’re Welcome.
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