If you don't quite know where to start, I posted an affiliated link in the description for a great herb seed kit both you and your chickens can use! Also, I don't say in the video but Common Yarrow is great for chickens' respiratory systems. You can dry it and feed it to them, feed it fresh, or hang it in the coop!
Do you feed the whole yarrow plant, just the leaves, or just the flowers? For human herbal use, the flower and the leaves have opposite affects on the blood. I don't know if it's the same for chickens or if feeding small amounts has any sort of effects in that area
Sorry you've had such a painful experience with homesteading. I'm really glad you've been able to find your love of growing again. Your garden looks beautiful and has so many benefits.
I feel your pain of losing your business but you are so successful in making the world a better place by sharing your love, passion, and knowledge. Your wisdom and joy are so uplighting. You are also a natural teacher who speaks from the heart and inspires others to action. I wish you health, wealth, and abundance. The world needs you, chickens need you
Thank you for this info on herbs for chickens. As a nurse herbalist of 40 years I too believe these precious plant friends can improve the quality of our feathered loved ones' lives and health. I also appreciate your tender, heart-felt feelings of vulnerability/ sadness over the loss of your store, and the period of time afterward. You are a treasure, I LOVE your videos, and want you to know how imprtant they are for us on so many levels.... thank you, chickenlandia queen ! Judy
I'm with you on the importance of herbs for health and well being. My chickens and quail enjoy lots of herbs. I must dry more and get them in the coop. Glad you are embracing gardening again. I find it so good for my physical and mental health. All the best. Mags
Love this!!!! I planted a garden just for my chickens, I try to get everyone to do it, lol. My girls are spoiled rotten. They DON’T like the parsley fresh, they spit it out, lol. I also add the sweet mint to their water in summer.
Yet another informative and interesting video. It was really nice to see our President working herself in her backyard. Honestly, your channel deserves much more subscribers and views than currently it’s getting. I have no doubt that you are a wonderful person and a great teacher as well. God bless you & wish you all the best.
I read( Artemisia Warmwood ) was excellent for chickens it keep them healthy and naturally dewormed and fat And also I watch a Syrian farmer that give his chicken chopped Red spicy chilies and garlic to increase the eggs production
Dill, parsley, rue, carrot - anything in that family - are also host plants to the black swallowtail caterpillar 🐛 and they turn into gorgeous butterflies 🦋
I just ran across your channel today, and THIS video, in addition to your ideology that "a naturally healthy flock is the best prevention" is what caused me to subscribe. I look forward to learning more about Chickenlandia, and you, in the coming weeks and months. 😁😁🐔🐓🐔😃😃
You mention sprinkling herbs in coop/roosting area, in their food, and in the run. Do they eat the herbs? Inhale them? What about placing fresh (or dried) herbs in their water? Oregano, thyme, and rosemary grow so prolifically in my area that I grow some in our flower garden. Also have pots with some of each inside the run, so chickens may nibble on it as they wish. Lavendar is planted just outside the run, so they can nibble on it through the run. Bee balm -- my European grandmother made tea from the blossoms, but in the States I read about making tea from the leaves. Want to add camomile and yarrow to the flower garden; already have echinacea. With bee balm, camomile, yarrow, echinacea do we sprinkle blossoms or leaves or both?
You are such a good soul, I am so glad I found your channel.... You have been a God Send to me during my venture of CHICKENLANDIA MAMA I love my Diva Chicks. I miss my Sunflower but CHICKS go on LOL. Thank You
Thank you so much for your videos and sharing your knowledge!! I hope to have a better herb garden this year and that my NEW baby chicks can also benefit from it. WIN WIN!!
I have just built my first chicken coop .I am getting 4 rescue hens this weekend .the poor things have never seen the outside world .I am gardening about 2 years and I have all the herbs you mentioned I'm so glad that the herbs that I grow are going to improve the health of my chickens .thank you for teaching me .Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪
Basil..., my chickens loooove Basil. The great thing is when it starts going to seed I break off a big limb and hang it in their coop, they eat ALL of the leaves but leave the flowers alone, which I then take down and finish drying out to collect the seed for next year. (same with the Rainbow Swiss Chard) Win, win.
thank you for your link to the list of herbs you planted and their benefits. I noted that you have several more in the video. I'll come back and tru and take notes.I have been into back yard chicken farming for one year so since learning as I know. I've got my run in order and want to plant these herbs.
Just came across your videos the other day. I've watched several and I'm very thankful for the information you share. Your herb garden looks awesome and chicken seem very happy. Doing something right.
Madama President, what do you think of creating a smorgasbord of herbs in a run, but not sprinkling them in the coop and nesting boxes? Are there different benefits from sprinkling dried herbs and the flock eating the same herbs from live plants? (I don't see myself making the time to dry the herbs and to sprinkle some inside the roosting area and nesting boxes.) Currently I grow several herbs in my flower borders (rosemary, oregano, thyme, echinacea) and in pots (2 types of mint, curly leaf parsley, dill, basil during summer, cilantro). My 4 chickens are in an Omlet Cube with a 6 foot run. I'll be buying a larger run for them shortly. My thought is to create 2-3 pots of each herb, then placing a pot of each in the larger run for the chickens to eat. The "extra" pots I'd keep a pot outside the run so when a pot inside the run is eaten to the ground, I can swap out a new one. Or I might put extra pots just outside the run in such a way the chickens can reach them through the run. I've read italian parsley has more benefits than curly leaf, so I'd likely plant italian leaf. (I'd continue planting curly leaf, because I prefer it in several recipes. Also there's a butterfly species that lay its egg on my curly leaf parsley. When they hatch the caterpillars destroy, eat my entire crop, but I just replant!) I've been meaning to plant chamomile (My grandmother grew it and harvested for her tea.), yarrow and bee balm (Same grandmother made a tea from its flowers too, but I understand most people make a tea from the leaves.), so now I have another motivation!
I was already planning to focus on planting herbs for this years garden (as I'm hopefully getting all our fresh veggies from CSAs this year) and it will be my first year with chicken- I think now I will be planting double the seeds I originally planned to plant so I have plenty to dry for the pantry and my birds as well 🥰 Great video!
Amaranth will get cheers of excitement. Grows 8-10 ft tall and has garmet colored clusters of high protein seeds Need no help and grows wether you want to 0r not. Chickens eat the leaves too.
I just wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me the other day on the watery poo one of my girls had. It has been allot cooler and her diarrhea is almost gone. She is even being super onery so I know shes feeling better. Thank you again.
I LOVE this video! This is great, useful information for both people and chickens! Your gardens are beautiful and I'm so glad you're re-discovering the joys of gardening.
Did you get well-established plants and then put them in the pots or did you grow it somewhere rows and then put it in the pots? I want to buy those same plants! They were beautiful! And huge!
I have beautiful mature herbs i have thyme, oregano, pineapple sage, tri colored sage, rosemary, lemon balm regular mint, chocolate mint, yarrow, anise and 2 different kinds of lavender. Also garlic and chives which I don't give to my girls. However my girls absolutely flat out refuse to eat any herbs!! I've tried fresh, chopped, dry and even let them cruise the garden. They will only eat the stuff I wish they wouldn't lol my beautiful flowers. They do love chard. Any ideas I'd love to hear. Thank you. A pnw neighbor.
Do you plant the herbs in the chicken yard or outside of the chicken yard? I want them to be able to let them nibble at anytime they want but I don’t want them to destroy the plants. If they’re young plants can you cover them with wire cages til they are bigger?
When I used to feed prepackaged dried herbs, it definitely made the eggs taste better so I imagine if they were eating enough of them, some of the flavor would come through!
I love your videos!!! and am in the middle of the Chickenlandia Backyard Chickens 101 course (HIGHLY recommend!) and am soaking up all of your knowledge and experience. Just to be clear - you have your herbs away from the chickens to grow and mature? and then prune them to sprinkle in the coup? or do you allow free access to all that you plant during free range time?
Hey, Abigail! I'm so happy to have you in my course. If you keep the herbs in the run, you have to cover them in wiring or protect them from the chickens somehow, otherwise they will destroy them in short order. I keep my herb garden away from the chickens completely. But you could grow them in the chicken yard if they were protected by the wire and your chickens could nibble them through the wire. :-)
so, occasionally the odd chicken (Perky or Winifred) will escaoethe coop and head into my garden, they are fenced out of the veggies, but they can get to my herb garden, but they dont eat the herbs, will they eat them if i plant them in their run?
Why plant a garden for those creatures????? They are destroying my garden as it is. Well, I guess I get what I get due to my letting them free range everywhere. I guess i need to lock up my garden.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia but the attacked a poor defenseless watermelon and cantaloupe. Don't forget about the countless cucumbers and ripe tomatoes. Stealing my squash. The list goes on......
If you don't quite know where to start, I posted an affiliated link in the description for a great herb seed kit both you and your chickens can use! Also, I don't say in the video but Common Yarrow is great for chickens' respiratory systems. You can dry it and feed it to them, feed it fresh, or hang it in the coop!
That is SUPER helpful thanks!! I will start there
Do you feed the whole yarrow plant, just the leaves, or just the flowers?
For human herbal use, the flower and the leaves have opposite affects on the blood. I don't know if it's the same for chickens or if feeding small amounts has any sort of effects in that area
What a small world! I have been to that store before. I am from Bellingham. We went to Lynden all of the time to visit my Aunt and Uncle.
The 10 second mark, that wink when you said they're boujee! 🥰
Hello and Thank you.
Can you produce a list of the herbs and what its good for. It would be so helpful.
Blessings
Sue
Sorry you've had such a painful experience with homesteading. I'm really glad you've been able to find your love of growing again. Your garden looks beautiful and has so many benefits.
It was a tough learning experience but if it weren't for that store, there would be no Chickenlandia! So I guess it worked out.
Aaaaaa chickens 🐔 omg
Wow! These chickens are lucky 😊
They have such an excellent mom and a delightful calming herb garden🌱
Lol
LOL thank you!!
I feel your pain of losing your business but you are so successful in making the world a better place by sharing your love, passion, and knowledge. Your wisdom and joy are so uplighting. You are also a natural teacher who speaks from the heart and inspires others to action. I wish you health, wealth, and abundance. The world needs you, chickens need you
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Wish you were our neighbor instead of that evil crap we have next door!
Thank you for this info on herbs for chickens. As a nurse herbalist of 40 years I too believe these precious plant friends can improve the quality of our feathered loved ones'
lives and health. I also appreciate your tender, heart-felt feelings of vulnerability/ sadness over the loss of your store, and the period of time afterward. You are a treasure, I LOVE your videos, and want you to know how imprtant they are for us on so many levels.... thank you, chickenlandia queen ! Judy
Chickens and gardens are so good for us. Glad you're getting back to enjoy. 💕 NonnaGrace
Thank you so much! ❤️🐔
So glad the garden was a balm to your soul!
Thank you! ❤️🐔❤️
I'm with you on the importance of herbs for health and well being. My chickens and quail enjoy lots of herbs. I must dry more and get them in the coop. Glad you are embracing gardening again. I find it so good for my physical and mental health. All the best. Mags
It really is. I’m loving it! ❤️🐔❤️
This is a late, late comment, but I love this video! Thank you! I'm going to plant herbs as soon as it's warm enough. 😊
Love this!!!! I planted a garden just for my chickens, I try to get everyone to do it, lol. My girls are spoiled rotten. They DON’T like the parsley fresh, they spit it out, lol. I also add the sweet mint to their water in summer.
Oooh that's a good idea to add mint in the summer!
Welcome to Chickenlandia A little chicken Mojito 🤣😆
Exactly 🤣🤣🤣
I guess I missed this one when it was uploaded. We are growing almost all of the herbs on your list. Glad that we watched this one.
I figured you had lots growing!
Yet another informative and interesting video. It was really nice to see our President working herself in her backyard. Honestly, your channel deserves much more subscribers and views than currently it’s getting. I have no doubt that you are a wonderful person and a great teacher as well.
God bless you & wish you all the best.
Aww. Thank you so much. That was such a kind comment and it means a lot to me!
I read( Artemisia Warmwood ) was excellent for chickens it keep them healthy and naturally dewormed and fat
And also I watch a Syrian farmer that give his chicken chopped Red spicy chilies and garlic to increase the eggs production
Oh wow!!! What a great and informative video!!!! I LOVE your garden and whole mind set! You have a new fan!!! 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
Dill, parsley, rue, carrot - anything in that family - are also host plants to the black swallowtail caterpillar 🐛 and they turn into gorgeous butterflies 🦋
I just ran across your channel today, and THIS video, in addition to your ideology that "a naturally healthy flock is the best prevention" is what caused me to subscribe.
I look forward to learning more about Chickenlandia, and you, in the coming weeks and months.
😁😁🐔🐓🐔😃😃
You mention sprinkling herbs in coop/roosting area, in their food, and in the run. Do they eat the herbs? Inhale them? What about placing fresh (or dried) herbs in their water? Oregano, thyme, and rosemary grow so prolifically in my area that I grow some in our flower garden. Also have pots with some of each inside the run, so chickens may nibble on it as they wish. Lavendar is planted just outside the run, so they can nibble on it through the run. Bee balm -- my European grandmother made tea from the blossoms, but in the States I read about making tea from the leaves. Want to add camomile and yarrow to the flower garden; already have echinacea. With bee balm, camomile, yarrow, echinacea do we sprinkle blossoms or leaves or both?
You are such a good soul, I am so glad I found your channel.... You have been a God Send to me during my venture of CHICKENLANDIA MAMA I love my Diva Chicks. I miss my Sunflower but CHICKS go on LOL. Thank You
You’re so welcome! ❤️🐔❤️
I love to preseason my chickens....I feed them all kinds of herbs...it really does help them taste better and the eggs are better too
Thank You! Wasn't expecting to land on your page, but this was a good video! Mostly the part about stressing out in these times
It is a stressful time, isn’t it? I’m so grateful I can get outside with my chickens and in my garden. Thanks for watching! ❤️🐔❤️
I felt you on so many things! TY great video!
Thank you so much for your videos and sharing your knowledge!! I hope to have a better herb garden this year and that my NEW baby chicks can also benefit from it. WIN WIN!!
Awesome herbal garden I need to do that for my chickens. Yes definitely start gardening again it's the best stress relief
It really is! I love it.
I have just built my first chicken coop .I am getting 4 rescue hens this weekend .the poor things have never seen the outside world .I am gardening about 2 years and I have all the herbs you mentioned I'm so glad that the herbs that I grow are going to improve the health of my chickens .thank you for teaching me .Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪
Gardening is therapy! I'm glad you are getting back to it 💜
Basil..., my chickens loooove Basil. The great thing is when it starts going to seed I break off a big limb and hang it in their coop, they eat ALL of the leaves but leave the flowers alone, which I then take down and finish drying out to collect the seed for next year. (same with the Rainbow Swiss Chard) Win, win.
Nice!!
Thank you for inspiring people to keep trying whatever that elusive thing is.
Oh no. Too bad that store didn’t make it. I’m glad you’re doing well! 😊❤️👌🏽 Take care of you. I just love your videos.
Thank you so much!! Love the pink hair, by the way!
Welcome to Chickenlandia Thank you!
New sub , new to chickens, thanks for all the wisdom. ❤️ from🇨🇦🌟
You are so knowledgeable. I'm so impressed by your herb garden - so many varieties.
Thanks so much!
Wow, it sounds like you have an awesome doctor! Gardening is very therapeutic to me too 💓
I do have a really good doctor. She's a naturopath. :-)
thank you for your link to the list of herbs you planted and their benefits. I noted that you have several more in the video. I'll come back and tru and take notes.I have been into back yard chicken farming for one year so since learning as I know. I've got my run in order and want to plant these herbs.
gardening is so peaceful I grow all kind of herbs🌱💚❤🌱
It is peaceful for sure. ❤️
❤🌱❤🌱
Your little black and white chicken is gorgeous! ❤️🐓
Thank you! I love her. Her name is Kiki.
Just came across your videos the other day. I've watched several and I'm very thankful for the information you share. Your herb garden looks awesome and chicken seem very happy. Doing something right.
Thank you!!
Madama President, what do you think of creating a smorgasbord of herbs in a run, but not sprinkling them in the coop and nesting boxes? Are there different benefits from sprinkling dried herbs and the flock eating the same herbs from live plants? (I don't see myself making the time to dry the herbs and to sprinkle some inside the roosting area and nesting boxes.)
Currently I grow several herbs in my flower borders (rosemary, oregano, thyme, echinacea) and in pots (2 types of mint, curly leaf parsley, dill, basil during summer, cilantro). My 4 chickens are in an Omlet Cube with a 6 foot run. I'll be buying a larger run for them shortly. My thought is to create 2-3 pots of each herb, then placing a pot of each in the larger run for the chickens to eat. The "extra" pots I'd keep a pot outside the run so when a pot inside the run is eaten to the ground, I can swap out a new one. Or I might put extra pots just outside the run in such a way the chickens can reach them through the run.
I've read italian parsley has more benefits than curly leaf, so I'd likely plant italian leaf. (I'd continue planting curly leaf, because I prefer it in several recipes. Also there's a butterfly species that lay its egg on my curly leaf parsley. When they hatch the caterpillars destroy, eat my entire crop, but I just replant!) I've been meaning to plant chamomile (My grandmother grew it and harvested for her tea.), yarrow and bee balm (Same grandmother made a tea from its flowers too, but I understand most people make a tea from the leaves.), so now I have another motivation!
Lovely video, I think many of us have found things very stressful recently. I am so grateful I have a garden. Lemon verbena just has the best smell.
It does!! I just love it. ❤️🌱
I was already planning to focus on planting herbs for this years garden (as I'm hopefully getting all our fresh veggies from CSAs this year) and it will be my first year with chicken- I think now I will be planting double the seeds I originally planned to plant so I have plenty to dry for the pantry and my birds as well 🥰 Great video!
Amaranth will get cheers of excitement. Grows 8-10 ft tall and has garmet colored clusters of high protein seeds
Need no help and grows wether you want to 0r not. Chickens eat the leaves too.
I gotta lavender plant and then my dog destroyed it sadly but I wanted to put it in their coop dried. Love you’re videos
Thank you so much! Silly dogs lol
I just wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me the other day on the watery poo one of my girls had. It has been allot cooler and her diarrhea is almost gone. She is even being super onery so I know shes feeling better. Thank you again.
Yay!! I'm so glad. Happy to help!
Hello!
Your video is great, I watched it and enjoyed it.
Like my friend.....Wish you all the best .
Thank you very much!
I LOVE this video! This is great, useful information for both people and chickens! Your gardens are beautiful and I'm so glad you're re-discovering the joys of gardening.
Thank you so much! ❤️🐔❤️
I grow rosemary, lavender and thyme. The babies love it.
Awesome!!
What a cute name... Chickenlandia! Really cute! :-)
Love this video. So inspiring. Can't wait to get outside and start planting my herb garden.
You can do it! ❤️🐔❤️
I have some amazing compost ... I love natural as well...
Some great tips there 👌
Did you get well-established plants and then put them in the pots or did you grow it somewhere rows and then put it in the pots? I want to buy those same plants! They were beautiful! And huge!
They were established and I got them at a local nursery! :)
I was wondering if lavender would be calming for my chicks. I have almost all of these herbs you mention in my garden ❤
Lol I know where that store is... Very nice I lived in Eugene
Have you did a update on what worked & any other updates
great info! you are giving me ideas for when I finally get to plant my herb garden :)
Nice!!
What is that gorgeous white flower small tree you have in the back???
I have beautiful mature herbs i have thyme, oregano, pineapple sage, tri colored sage, rosemary, lemon balm regular mint, chocolate mint, yarrow, anise and 2 different kinds of lavender. Also garlic and chives which I don't give to my girls. However my girls absolutely flat out refuse to eat any herbs!! I've tried fresh, chopped, dry and even let them cruise the garden. They will only eat the stuff I wish they wouldn't lol my beautiful flowers. They do love chard. Any ideas I'd love to hear. Thank you. A pnw neighbor.
Oh my goodness those silly ladies! I wonder if you only offered them access the herbs and not the chard and flowers if they would finally eat them?
Darn doggy lol
For real LOL
Love those bibs. Where did you purchase them
Do you plant the herbs in the chicken yard or outside of the chicken yard? I want them to be able to let them nibble at anytime they want but I don’t want them to destroy the plants. If they’re young plants can you cover them with wire cages til they are bigger?
i just gotta subscribe to Chickenlandia! Braak braaak
Lol BAWK!!
I would recommend you get a Polish chicken for your kids!
We have one! My kids named her Pac-Man LOL
yes get out in that garden!
It's awesome!
Fantastic 🛠️👊 All those herbs sound herbtastic 😁 When the hens start laying do any of those herb tastes come through in the eggs?
When I used to feed prepackaged dried herbs, it definitely made the eggs taste better so I imagine if they were eating enough of them, some of the flavor would come through!
Do you dry the herbs or put them in fresh in their nesting boxes?
your overalls are sooo cute !! where did you get them?
are you still in Washington. we are in Maple Valley Seattle
Would you believe I used to go there to pick up injectable fluid for our cats , seed, and whatever I found to buy being interested in so many things,
awww!
:-)
I love your videos!!! and am in the middle of the Chickenlandia Backyard Chickens 101 course (HIGHLY recommend!) and am soaking up all of your knowledge and experience. Just to be clear - you have your herbs away from the chickens to grow and mature? and then prune them to sprinkle in the coup? or do you allow free access to all that you plant during free range time?
Hey, Abigail! I'm so happy to have you in my course. If you keep the herbs in the run, you have to cover them in wiring or protect them from the chickens somehow, otherwise they will destroy them in short order. I keep my herb garden away from the chickens completely. But you could grow them in the chicken yard if they were protected by the wire and your chickens could nibble them through the wire. :-)
So you plant these , and than, how do you keep the herbs around ? Don’t the chickens destroy the plants?
I wouldn’t plant them in the chicken yard unless you do something like these salad bars: th-cam.com/video/n5ehvJwgE1E/w-d-xo.html
Can I plant these in the chicken run?
What would happen if I plant these in my chicken run?
so, occasionally the odd chicken (Perky or Winifred) will escaoethe coop and head into my garden, they are fenced out of the veggies, but they can get to my herb garden, but they dont eat the herbs, will they eat them if i plant them in their run?
They might eat them or not, but they will definitely destroy them unless you put some kind of protection around them.
Do they eat all of these??
Some are for eating and some are aromatic. None of them will hurt the chickens if ingested. 😃
Can I ferment chicken feed for baby chicks ? Like 6 weeks old? Xoxoxo
Yes!! They will love it. :-)
@@WelcometoChickenlandia thank you!!
What breed is Kiki?
She was a serama. ❤️ I lost her a few weeks ago. 😞
@@WelcometoChickenlandia oh no I'm so sorry to hear that❤️
Thank you! ❤️
💚
Yes but won’t they destroy all the herbs by scratching it all out?
Oh yes! You can’t plant them in the actual chicken yard unless your protect them.
🥚🐣🐥🐓
Find joy in God and His creation!
Do you butcher your chickens?
Why plant a garden for those creatures????? They are destroying my garden as it is. Well, I guess I get what I get due to my letting them free range everywhere. I guess i need to lock up my garden.
No, you just need to give the whole thing to them! 🤣🐔
@@WelcometoChickenlandia but the attacked a poor defenseless watermelon and cantaloupe. Don't forget about the countless cucumbers and ripe tomatoes. Stealing my squash. The list goes on......
@@ericjohnson1008 Naughty chickens!!