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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
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Arbor Day, celebrating ourbor Day today, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
We're gonna you know, it's the Rodney dangerfield of all
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keep celebrating right on through the weekend to try to
(00:22):
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plan and grow a tree or two or three. Keep
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(01:09):
all of them everywhere. Danny said he has to these
people want water and food and been waiting for you
all night.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well that's good, that's good. Sort of like I wouldn't
give an analogy to the pope, but that's a compliment, yeah,
kind of. I'm alive and he's not right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh no, I didn't get to see that this morning
with the I guess that was this morning, right, the burial?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, but there's been information on it
all week and I have been talked about his favorite
foods on Sacred Heart Radio Thursday. And it's interesting because
jumping to another top topic about Arbor Day. Now, when
we were kids, we didn't celebrate Eirth Day, but we
at school we always got a tree for Arbor Day,
(02:01):
like a new just like a bear root, and ours
was usually red buds and my dad used to plant
those in our yard. And I still remember Arbor Day.
So I'm glad that you brought it up and gave
it a little respect.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As you said, did they actually have Earth Day when
you were a.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Kid, No, we didn't call it that. No, No, we
just you know, they didn't have anything special like that.
But Arbor Day was a big day at all they
you know, the primary schools and as I said, we
all got a bear root tree and it was special
and to see it grow in the yard. Jeez, I
think it's still growing in my dad and mom's yard
(02:39):
where you know they lived, and it's self seated, and
so yeah, something special I was. It made me smile
when you talked about that this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you know, you always do go back and take
a look at you know, wow, I look at that
thing when you know, I remember that was just a
baby when we planted that there. So talking with Rita
Nader Hikenfelder websites about eating dot com. First of all,
I went to the actually went to the Earth Society
of America last week about that Mitch Ham mint mint.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, it kind of got my interest because it's like, where,
so where did this name come from? And they she
wasn't aware of The education manager not aware of it either,
but then she started kind of digging into it and
learn more about the mitch Hams, but can't seem to
figure out where the name switched over to Robert Mitcham
rather than Robert's Mitch Ham meant. So we're still can't
(03:28):
figure that one how that got switched. But we're pretty
sure now that it was Robert's mitch Ham peppermint or
black mint that first started out and then somehow get
switched over to Robert Mitcham, So I thought it was
kind of fun trying to figure that one out. We're
still going to kind of keep looking into it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, it is interesting how people sort of skew up
the names and then what the most popular person or
thing is what we wind up with. So I think
that's that's what I figured happen. But yeah, interesting. Thanks
for sending that info.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, thanks for Karen Kennedy for getting back to me
on that too from the Herb Society, so I really
appreciate it. Also, I send you some info this week.
I figured you'd be traveling this morning, headed up to
South Cleveland because they're having the Old Peninsula ramp Up
Ramp Up Peninsula Festival today celebrating the ramps which I
(04:24):
absolutely love to eat, and of course you know that.
And have you seen any around your area?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, no, no, no. Hopefully we're going to go morel
hunting and ramp hunting tomorrow with my friends Charlene and Butch.
But this is the season, I mean right now, and
we usually find lots of ramps. Maybe not so many morels,
but there's a whole hillside and I can't tell you where. No,
no blind pull you and take you into the woods.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No I would, I would know, I would. I'm sorry,
I don't think so anyway, if you're not familiar with rams,
it tastes like a onion and garlic, kind of a
cross between the two. I think it's an absolutely wonderful flavor.
I noticed somebody says something about it's something that's consideredabile.
Clean out your body. If it comes out of your pores,
(05:14):
you don't smell so good for a couple of days.
I never noticed that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
After I ate it, Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a member of the Leak family, sort of oniony
and garlic free. And I haven't noticed it either, but
we have grilled it. It's really delicious. But you know
when you go dick those up, Yes, that route, mister Wilson,
is not easily obtained because it's the ball that's like
the bulb of an onion, right, and then the top
(05:39):
the green, the growth, the green growth is what's on top.
So you got to really dig and respect mother nature,
and don't you know, dig up too many.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And leave there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, oh, there's they're abundant. They're just abundant. So yeah,
you've got me all excited about that. So that'll be
something fun to do tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I know West Virginia and Pennsylvania has always had
their ram festival. So this one's today. If you're in Ohio,
it's just south. It's in Summit County, south of Cleveland.
It's called Ramp Up Peninsula, Peninsula, Ohio from eleven to
four along their main street. Big thing Perogi's and Sausage
there too. Can't beat that and a few ramps as well.
Talking with Reno Hikenfeld are herbalist and her website again
(06:19):
about eating dot com. So this week I thought was
fairly interesting. You know, there's no recipe this week, but
the recipe is for actually, I guess it would be
a recipe feeding your chickens because a lot of folks
now and it's not just now because of the price
of eggs, although a lot of people have started doing
it because of the price of eggs, but backyard raising
(06:41):
chickens in the backyard has become so popular over the
last would you say, ten years, twelve years something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, at least fifteen or so.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, and just getting more and more popular all
the time. Two tns, four hands, six hands, whatever. How
many do you guys have?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We have eleven? We just lost well I call her Granny.
We've had so many grannies and yard boys. We just
lost one. But she was you know, she was gosh
about ten years old, so she had an honorable life.
So yeah, we just lost one. But yeah, we have eleven.
We had thirteen and now I think there's eleven. But
(07:19):
we need babies. Yard boy has to do his job.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh you still have yard boy. This is yardboy? What number? Yardboy?
Number nine?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Probably, but they're all named after you because they're very mischievous. Yeah, yeah,
very sweet, very sweet. He's a good he's a good rooster,
but he's been falling down on the task a little
bit lately. So hopefully we'll get some babes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So you and your your chickens, are you have an assortment? Right?
You don't just stick with one particular selection of chickens,
like you know, you have a little.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Bit of everything, right, Yeah, we have some silky some
bantam Rhode Island red. Yeah, we have I don't know. Yeah,
it's a got any dominickers.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you have any dominickers?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bard rocks?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh? No, you know we did, but all those are beautiful.
I know, I didn't know that's what they were called.
Grandmother any of those.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That was my grandmother, Grandma Wilson. She loved dominickers.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bars yea too, And they're good bars, I know too.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Good lookers too. I like those. That's what I asked about.
Most of that and the Rhode Island reds. Oh yeah,
I think we're the two that most of the ones
that we had when we back with raising chickens anyway,
So a lot of folks doing that. So Rita said,
let's kind of do a little twist on this and
talk about recipes of herbs that are good for your
chickens that she happens to harvest as well. So we're
(08:47):
going to take a break when we come back, we'll
find out what herbs should you be growing to benefit
your chickens. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (11:21):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson special
guests this morning. She's not special guest, she's a regular
redinator hikenfounder website About eating dot com. It's part two
of are your chickens herbally experienced herbs you should be
growing to feed to your chickens?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Have at It sounds like a winner to me. And
it's funny because a lot of the culinary herbs that
we use every day in cooking are good for your
feathered friends as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Wow, And I'm assuming as we And then you've got
a list of twelve and we have these posted on
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, so because
we might not get through all of them, but you
can go and check it out. And I'm assuming read
I kind of joked earlier, but I could take all
of these and put them in a little bundle, and
when I'm grilling that chicken, I could also put that
in the in the grills.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Just about the only earth that I would suggest not
using in this list is comfort Comfrey. Yeah, and we'll
talk about that in a minute. But I wanted you
to choose which herbs you want to talk about, and
then which might be your favorite.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Let's let's start with I like what you said you
were talking about. Uh, turn the page here. You were
talking about time as far as they eat the time,
but you're also putting it in their nests, their box nests.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you know time. It's mainly known
as a perennial and I grow, gosh, all kinds of time,
and it likes full sum, but it'll do well in
partial shade also. But the thing is it repels insects.
We know that. So it's anti bacterial and got lots
of antioxidants. So it's really good for the chicken is
(13:00):
to like peck at it. And when you're pruning your herbs,
it's a perfect time to throw them in their feed.
And usually I think the proportion is like ninety percent
regular feed and then ten percent what we call the
irbal treats. So as you're pruning, I sometimes just throw
it in there and they'll just pick the stems clean.
But they love the time, and they also it's nice
(13:23):
to put in their nesting boxes. As you just said,
it helps them breathe, you know when you think of
time and even time and saget for us and it
sort of clears out the sinuses. So it's a greaterrb
for their respiratory health as well.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, what if for folks who live in the
Cincinnati area, you on some saturdays during the spring season
hang out at Natorpe's nurseryality in Mason, Ohio and the
herb section and can answer questions and you're always going
through there with dead heading and picking and harvesting. Now
I know where all those.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Go, well, you know where some of them go. I
put them in the break room because not only do
they just the scent just alerts people and just makes
them happy. But they'll take some home and use them too.
But I do. I use a lot of my cutting
just the chicken coops close enough to the garden. So
my girls love it, and yur boy likes it too.
(14:16):
So you know, just a way of waste not want not,
don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Absolutely? Lavender kind of surprise me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yeah, lavender. Well, we think of lavender such a
calming herb, and you can put it like in bunches
in the coop and sometimes I'll just like I have
one bush planet just outside the coop because it really
does repel insects, and you know, chickens get like life
and other little creatures on them. But it's also, as
(14:46):
I said, such a calming herb, a stress reliever even
for chickens. And then if you've got dust bats for
your chickens, throw some lavender leaves in there too, and
it'll keep the insects off and keep them nice and calm.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then basil actually can get making the egg yolks
much more orange deeper in color.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, basil. Well, it's it's got high in
proachein too, so that's good for your eggs and it
does it. It helps their respiratory help and it gives
the yolk a really nice orange coloring. And one herb
I didn't put in there, but it's also good. And
you can even buy the petals dried in the in
(15:25):
the like nurseries is colengula, you know the pop marry
gold that is really good for chickens and gives their
yolks a beautiful color as well, and humans can eat
colendula too, so double duty.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Then we obviously we're talking about mint earlier than mints
good for the chickens.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh yeah, mint, I mean, and you know if you
can grow mint anywhere, you've heard me say, it will
grow out of a sashiwalk crack. And you know the
thing about mintough, mister Wilson, not only do they enjoy
pecking at it, but it helps lower their box temperatures.
It's a very cooling herve, so when we get this
really hot weather, it's a wonderful herb to give them,
(16:06):
along with some cool not ice water, but cool water.
So and they're also ant repellents too, so great for
chickens too.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And it sounds like dial kind of falls into the
same category.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh yeah, del and deal helps with their feather growth too.
People didn't don't realize that. And that's got tons of
plant protein in it for them too, And a lot
of times you'll find that like and tease to combat
again respiratory problems. But it also is a very calming herve.
So you can throw some dial leaves in the nesting
(16:39):
boxes too, and it helps stimulate feather growth. As I said,
And when I just prune my mammoth dill and I'll
just throw the whole stalks in there. Within a couple hours,
all I see are stalks. They've eaten every flour and
leaf off of it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And if those girls aren't laying very well, throw a
little finol at them.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, that's for sure. And I grow the bronze, so
I don't mind. Doesn't develop the bulb so much. But
it's really good for their reproductive health. And it's got
like an annus flavor, and so they can eat both
the leaves and if you shave some of those bulbs,
those are really really good for layers.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now you did mention comfrey, as far as that's one
we would not throw obviously on the grill. And you
can do nerves like that, throw them on the grill
for seasoning as you're cooking. But comfrey you can feed
to the chickens, but you cannot use it obviously in
the cooking process.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, you know, comfrey reminds me of sassafras. You know,
the old country folk around here still drink comfory tea
and sassafras tea, but it's recommended not not to do
that now. And comfrey because of the alkaloids in it.
It's used mainly in sas you know, for sore mussels
and such, But you can feed at the chickens, and
(17:57):
I would not overdo. But it's good for their jestive
and even their heart health. So a lot of protein
in there too, so it helps increase ache production. But
as I said, don't overdo on the comfory even for
your birds.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Got about fifty seconds and sage. If they eat the sage,
I guess it will taste like dressing when I go
to cook them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, oh my god, I don't even know where to
go with that real quick. Yeah, just their general health
and it's just a healthy nibble if you give them some.
You know, when you're prude in your sage again, you're
going to find them nibbling at that the leaves. And
it's a wonderful herb for chickens. Just generally, just like
(18:40):
a sort of all over good health.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you're looking to naturally keep your chickens in good health,
you're raising those hens in that backyard. Rita has a
list of twelve different herbs that you probably are growing
in your herb garden that you can share with the
with those hens as well to help them be more productive, healthier,
and all natural because you're using all those natural herbs
from your garden. Rita Hikenfeld always a pleasure her website
(19:05):
about eating dot com. Tell mister Hikenfeld, we said alone.
It's you gonna be at Naturps today.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Right, Yes I am. I'm gonna be there around eleven o'clock.
So are you gonna be there later?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'll try to stop it as well. We'll see you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
There, Okay, see you later, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Take care? Coming up next, Barbie Bletcher. Here in the
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two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about the yarding on this post
Arbor Day, celebrating ourbor Day today, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
We're gonna you know, it's the Rodney dangerfield of all
these holidays and awareness days, and so we're just gonna
keep celebrating right on through the weekend to try to
(00:22):
get more and more people to get out there and
plan and grow a tree or two or three. Keep
planting those trees. Now, as I promised, two weeks in
a row, she is with us. It's time for ore
you erbally experience with our CCPCM major award winning syndicated journalist,
Appalachian herbal scholar remember the Herbal Society of America. She
(00:44):
is an author, a cooking teacher, a media personality, motivational speaker.
I'm always motivated by the time she's done here today.
You hear on Sacred Heart Radio as well as iHeartRadio.
Founding editor of About Eating dot Com ladies and gentlemen,
the one, the only Da Nader Hi get big fans,
(01:09):
all of them everywhere. Danny said he has to these
people want water and food and been waiting for you
all night.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well that's good, that's good. Sort of like I wouldn't
give an analogy to the pope, but that's a compliment, yeah,
kind of. I'm alive and he's not right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh no, I didn't get to see that this morning
with the I guess that was this morning, right, the burial?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, but there's been information on it
all week and I have been talked about his favorite
foods on Sacred Heart Radio Thursday. And it's interesting because
jumping to another top topic about Arbor Day. Now, when
we were kids, we didn't celebrate Eirth Day, but we
at school we always got a tree for Arbor Day,
(02:01):
like a new just like a bear root, and ours
was usually red buds and my dad used to plant
those in our yard. And I still remember Arbor Day.
So I'm glad that you brought it up and gave
it a little respect.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As you said, did they actually have Earth Day when
you were a.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Kid, No, we didn't call it that. No, No, we
just you know, they didn't have anything special like that.
But Arbor Day was a big day at all they
you know, the primary schools and as I said, we
all got a bear root tree and it was special
and to see it grow in the yard. Jeez, I
think it's still growing in my dad and mom's yard
(02:39):
where you know they lived, and it's self seated, and
so yeah, something special I was. It made me smile
when you talked about that this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you know, you always do go back and take
a look at you know, wow, I look at that
thing when you know, I remember that was just a
baby when we planted that there. So talking with Rita
Nader Hikenfelder websites about eating dot com. First of all,
I went to the actually went to the Earth Society
of America last week about that Mitch Ham mint mint.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, it kind of got my interest because it's like, where,
so where did this name come from? And they she
wasn't aware of The education manager not aware of it either,
but then she started kind of digging into it and
learn more about the mitch Hams, but can't seem to
figure out where the name switched over to Robert Mitcham
rather than Robert's Mitch Ham meant. So we're still can't
(03:28):
figure that one how that got switched. But we're pretty
sure now that it was Robert's mitch Ham peppermint or
black mint that first started out and then somehow get
switched over to Robert Mitcham, So I thought it was
kind of fun trying to figure that one out. We're
still going to kind of keep looking into it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, it is interesting how people sort of skew up
the names and then what the most popular person or
thing is what we wind up with. So I think
that's that's what I figured happen. But yeah, interesting. Thanks
for sending that info.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, thanks for Karen Kennedy for getting back to me
on that too from the Herb Society, so I really
appreciate it. Also, I send you some info this week.
I figured you'd be traveling this morning, headed up to
South Cleveland because they're having the Old Peninsula ramp Up
Ramp Up Peninsula Festival today celebrating the ramps which I
(04:24):
absolutely love to eat, and of course you know that.
And have you seen any around your area?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No, no, no, no. Hopefully we're going to go morel
hunting and ramp hunting tomorrow with my friends Charlene and Butch.
But this is the season, I mean right now, and
we usually find lots of ramps. Maybe not so many morels,
but there's a whole hillside and I can't tell you where. No,
no blind pull you and take you into the woods.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No I would, I would know, I would. I'm sorry,
I don't think so anyway, if you're not familiar with rams,
it tastes like a onion and garlic, kind of a
cross between the two. I think it's an absolutely wonderful flavor.
I noticed somebody says something about it's something that's consideredabile.
Clean out your body. If it comes out of your pores,
(05:14):
you don't smell so good for a couple of days.
I never noticed that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
After I ate it, Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a member of the Leak family, sort of oniony
and garlic free. And I haven't noticed it either, but
we have grilled it. It's really delicious. But you know
when you go dick those up, Yes, that route, mister Wilson,
is not easily obtained because it's the ball that's like
the bulb of an onion, right, and then the top
(05:39):
the green, the growth, the green growth is what's on top.
So you got to really dig and respect mother nature,
and don't you know, dig up too many.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And leave there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, oh, there's they're abundant. They're just abundant. So yeah,
you've got me all excited about that. So that'll be
something fun to do tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I know West Virginia and Pennsylvania has always had
their ram festival. So this one's today. If you're in Ohio,
it's just south. It's in Summit County, south of Cleveland.
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about eating dot com. So this week I thought was
fairly interesting. You know, there's no recipe this week, but
the recipe is for actually, I guess it would be
a recipe feeding your chickens because a lot of folks
now and it's not just now because of the price
of eggs, although a lot of people have started doing
it because of the price of eggs, but backyard raising
(06:41):
chickens in the backyard has become so popular over the
last would you say, ten years, twelve years something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, at least fifteen or so.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, and just getting more and more popular all
the time. Two tns, four hands, six hands, whatever. How
many do you guys have?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We have eleven? We just lost well I call her Granny.
We've had so many grannies and yard boys. We just
lost one. But she was you know, she was gosh
about ten years old, so she had an honorable life.
So yeah, we just lost one. But yeah, we have eleven.
We had thirteen and now I think there's eleven. But
(07:19):
we need babies. Yard boy has to do his job.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh you still have yard boy. This is yardboy? What number? Yardboy?
Number nine?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Probably, but they're all named after you because they're very mischievous. Yeah, yeah,
very sweet, very sweet. He's a good he's a good rooster,
but he's been falling down on the task a little
bit lately. So hopefully we'll get some babes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So you and your your chickens, are you have an assortment? Right?
You don't just stick with one particular selection of chickens,
like you know, you have a little.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Bit of everything, right, Yeah, we have some silky some
bantam Rhode Island red. Yeah, we have I don't know. Yeah,
it's a got any dominickers.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you have any dominickers?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bard rocks?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh? No, you know we did, but all those are beautiful.
I know, I didn't know that's what they were called.
Grandmother any of those.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That was my grandmother, Grandma Wilson. She loved dominickers.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bars yea too, And they're good bars, I know too.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Good lookers too. I like those. That's what I asked about.
Most of that and the Rhode Island reds. Oh yeah,
I think we're the two that most of the ones
that we had when we back with raising chickens anyway,
So a lot of folks doing that. So Rita said,
let's kind of do a little twist on this and
talk about recipes of herbs that are good for your
chickens that she happens to harvest as well. So we're
(08:47):
going to take a break when we come back, we'll
find out what herbs should you be growing to benefit
your chickens. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson special
guests this morning. She's not special guest, she's a regular
redinator hikenfounder website About eating dot com. It's part two
of are your chickens herbally experienced herbs you should be
growing to feed to your chickens?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Have at It sounds like a winner to me. And
it's funny because a lot of the culinary herbs that
we use every day in cooking are good for your
feathered friends as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Wow, And I'm assuming as we And then you've got
a list of twelve and we have these posted on
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, so because
we might not get through all of them, but you
can go and check it out. And I'm assuming read
I kind of joked earlier, but I could take all
of these and put them in a little bundle, and
when I'm grilling that chicken, I could also put that
in the in the grills.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Just about the only earth that I would suggest not
using in this list is comfort Comfrey. Yeah, and we'll
talk about that in a minute. But I wanted you
to choose which herbs you want to talk about, and
then which might be your favorite.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Let's let's start with I like what you said you
were talking about. Uh, turn the page here. You were
talking about time as far as they eat the time,
but you're also putting it in their nests, their box nests.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you know time. It's mainly known
as a perennial and I grow, gosh, all kinds of time,
and it likes full sum, but it'll do well in
partial shade also. But the thing is it repels insects.
We know that. So it's anti bacterial and got lots
of antioxidants. So it's really good for the chicken is
(13:00):
to like peck at it. And when you're pruning your herbs,
it's a perfect time to throw them in their feed.
And usually I think the proportion is like ninety percent
regular feed and then ten percent what we call the
irbal treats. So as you're pruning, I sometimes just throw
it in there and they'll just pick the stems clean.
But they love the time, and they also it's nice
(13:23):
to put in their nesting boxes. As you just said,
it helps them breathe, you know when you think of
time and even time and saget for us and it
sort of clears out the sinuses. So it's a greaterrb
for their respiratory health as well.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, what if for folks who live in the
Cincinnati area, you on some saturdays during the spring season
hang out at Natorpe's nurseryality in Mason, Ohio and the
herb section and can answer questions and you're always going
through there with dead heading and picking and harvesting. Now
I know where all those.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Go, well, you know where some of them go. I
put them in the break room because not only do
they just the scent just alerts people and just makes
them happy. But they'll take some home and use them too.
But I do. I use a lot of my cutting
just the chicken coops close enough to the garden. So
my girls love it, and yur boy likes it too.
(14:16):
So you know, just a way of waste not want not,
don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Absolutely? Lavender kind of surprise me.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yeah, lavender. Well, we think of lavender such a
calming herb, and you can put it like in bunches
in the coop and sometimes I'll just like I have
one bush planet just outside the coop because it really
does repel insects, and you know, chickens get like life
and other little creatures on them. But it's also, as
(14:46):
I said, such a calming herb, a stress reliever even
for chickens. And then if you've got dust bats for
your chickens, throw some lavender leaves in there too, and
it'll keep the insects off and keep them nice and calm.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then basil actually can get making the egg yolks
much more orange deeper in color.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, basil. Well, it's it's got high in
proachein too, so that's good for your eggs and it
does it. It helps their respiratory help and it gives
the yolk a really nice orange coloring. And one herb
I didn't put in there, but it's also good. And
you can even buy the petals dried in the in
(15:25):
the like nurseries is colengula, you know the pop marry
gold that is really good for chickens and gives their
yolks a beautiful color as well, and humans can eat
colendula too, so double duty.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Then we obviously we're talking about mint earlier than mints
good for the chickens.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh yeah, mint, I mean, and you know if you
can grow mint anywhere, you've heard me say, it will
grow out of a sashiwalk crack. And you know the
thing about mintough, mister Wilson, not only do they enjoy
pecking at it, but it helps lower their box temperatures.
It's a very cooling herve, so when we get this
really hot weather, it's a wonderful herb to give them,
(16:06):
along with some cool not ice water, but cool water.
So and they're also ant repellents too, so great for
chickens too.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And it sounds like dial kind of falls into the
same category.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh yeah, del and deal helps with their feather growth too.
People didn't don't realize that. And that's got tons of
plant protein in it for them too, And a lot
of times you'll find that like and tease to combat
again respiratory problems. But it also is a very calming herve.
So you can throw some dial leaves in the nesting
(16:39):
boxes too, and it helps stimulate feather growth. As I said,
And when I just prune my mammoth dill and I'll
just throw the whole stalks in there. Within a couple hours,
all I see are stalks. They've eaten every flour and
leaf off of it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And if those girls aren't laying very well, throw a
little finol at them.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, that's for sure. And I grow the bronze, so
I don't mind. Doesn't develop the bulb so much. But
it's really good for their reproductive health. And it's got
like an annus flavor, and so they can eat both
the leaves and if you shave some of those bulbs,
those are really really good for layers.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now you did mention comfrey, as far as that's one
we would not throw obviously on the grill. And you
can do nerves like that, throw them on the grill
for seasoning as you're cooking. But comfrey you can feed
to the chickens, but you cannot use it obviously in
the cooking process.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, you know, comfrey reminds me of sassafras. You know,
the old country folk around here still drink comfory tea
and sassafras tea, but it's recommended not not to do
that now. And comfrey because of the alkaloids in it.
It's used mainly in sas you know, for sore mussels
and such, But you can feed at the chickens, and
(17:57):
I would not overdo. But it's good for their jestive
and even their heart health. So a lot of protein
in there too, so it helps increase ache production. But
as I said, don't overdo on the comfory even for
your birds.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Got about fifty seconds and sage. If they eat the sage,
I guess it will taste like dressing when I go
to cook them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, oh my god, I don't even know where to
go with that real quick. Yeah, just their general health
and it's just a healthy nibble if you give them some.
You know, when you're prude in your sage again, you're
going to find them nibbling at that the leaves. And
it's a wonderful herb for chickens. Just generally, just like
(18:40):
a sort of all over good health.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
If you're looking to naturally keep your chickens in good health,
you're raising those hens in that backyard. Rita has a
list of twelve different herbs that you probably are growing
in your herb garden that you can share with the
with those hens as well to help them be more productive, healthier,
and all natural because you're using all those natural herbs
from your garden. Rita Hikenfeld always a pleasure her website
(19:05):
about eating dot com. Tell mister Hikenfeld, we said alone.
It's you gonna be at Naturps today.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Right, Yes I am. I'm gonna be there around eleven o'clock.
So are you gonna be there later?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'll try to stop it as well. We'll see you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
There, Okay, see you later, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Take care? Coming up next, Barbie Bletcher. Here in the
garden with Ron Wilson. How is your garden growing?
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