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video By the beginning of summer, chickens settle on the farmstead, progeny other poultry. June is the time when kids are actively growing up and growing up, weight gaining is not the first spring season. With the arrival of stable heat, all the inhabitants of the household yard have the opportunity to vary the diet at the expense of juicy herbs.
The owners of the farmstead start preparing them and are working on solving other equally important tasks.
Harvesting green fodder in June
The June forbs strikes with freshness and incredible variety. Animals and poultry eagerly eat green fodder, receiving not only nutrients, but also vitamins, trace elements, amino acids necessary for growth and development, and other useful components. It is impossible not to use the opportunity given by nature! Therefore, many owners of livestock and poultry in June are actively engaged in the harvesting of herbs favorite pets, dry them and green brooms for future use.
What plants will be useful in June? Going to grazing goats, sheep, cows are well versed in herbs and rarely eat obviously dangerous plants. It is better for their owners to learn in advance the cultures that their pets will welcome.
In May, the healthy, rich in organic acids, vitamins and, especially, carotene nettle only timidly made its way from under the fences, walls of homestead buildings and on the edges. In June, the plant gains strength, quickly gives growth and is suitable not only for fresh feeding, but also for drying for the winter.
breeding The shchiritsa common in Russia for gardeners is considered to be a malicious weed. But for livestock and poultry - this unsightly herb is a real treat.
Plant seeds, which are rich in protein and fats, are hidden in dense “fluffy” inflorescences-panicles that are especially useful for birds. It is possible to use such feed:
- by drying the tops of the shchiritsa;
- steaming;
- mixed with a small amount of feed.
As can be seen, even the usual weeding of the summer cottage in June can make a noticeable contribution to the provision of feed. Chickens, ducks, geese eat quinoa, clover, tributary growing at the gate, a shepherd's bag and horse sorrel. In the food is a mountaineer, snivel and forever bothering the gardeners thistles.
In June, many garden beds in June are covered with creeping shoots of succulent light green woodlice. This is a true treat for young turkeys and chickens.
For a waterfowl that does not have access to a natural body of water, it is useful to harvest a duckweed, which is stored for a rather long time in barrels filled with river water.
Young foliage of trees and delicate, already grown this season shoots are of great value in the diet of rabbits, goats, sheep. Green brooms harvested in June, replenish the diet of animals contained in the compound. Brooms are also dried for the winter when they become an excellent source of vitamins for young and adult animals.
June is the time of mass flowering of wild-growing cereals. By this time, plants, as well as numerous types of legumes and other herbs accumulate the maximum amount of nutrients and are ready to mow.
If you delay, the herbs will harden, lose taste and nutritional qualities, this one will come out less valuable and nutritious.
During drying, it is important that the grass retains its original color, does not crumble and remains as fragrant.
Peculiarities of livestock and poultry keeping in June
Pasture keeping is organized for goats and domestic sheep in June. While animals graze, sheep dogs and goatlings can be put in order. Clean the premises, dry them well and disinfect them.
When collecting herbs for feeding animals, armies that are removed are obviously dangerous plants, which include:
- wormwood, faded mustard, tansy, giving goat milk a pronounced bitter aftertaste;
- reduces horsetail milk production;
- branch poisonous for home goat ledum;
- plants of narcissus, tobacco that have fallen from the beds or flower beds.
Sheep, both adults and grown-up lambs, are completely transferred to pasture at the beginning of summer, if the site does not provide for feed needs, animals are given top dressing, provide water, salt and shade for rest on hot days.
Rabbits eagerly eat:
- dandelion;
- mineral rich psyllium;
- yarrow, which improves the digestion of small animals and has a positive effect on lactation of bunnies;
- knotweed;
- annoying gardeners, rapidly propagating with rhizomes of wheat grass.
Animals willingly eat legumes, corn, giving a huge amount of juicy green mass in June. You can feed lettuce and early cabbage, spicy herbs, carrot tops from the summer cottages to rabbits.
Rabbits grow up quickly on green food, which are much stronger than their spring counterparts.
The house in June is also noisy due to the abundance of young stock. For him, the owners plant beds of early ripe lettuce, and from a week old small portions of duckweed are introduced into the diet, which is given in combination with semolina, and then with chopped grass and compound feeds.
Ate at the site there is a reservoir, it is possible to stock it in June. To do this, use fish fry and plankton, common in a particular area of species. And to push the development of microflora will help the introduction of a gram of nitroammofoski per each square meter. This “feeding” of the reservoir is carried out up to two times a month.
