I was surprised to learn that the used bath brooms

Probably many of those who have a bath and who use birch brooms throw them away after steaming. Well, or, at best, used for kindling. Now I ask all my relatives and friends to bring these steamed brooms to me. For what, I'll tell you now.

When we moved from the apartment to our house, I immediately started a small farm - six chickens and a rooster. And for a year now, I have never regretted it.

Chickens began to lay a month after I bought them and since then our family has been with eggs all the time. All the weeds that I pull out in the beds - I throw them into the chicken coop. Then what the chickens did not eat, I collect from under their feet. This dry grass is mixed with the droppings and sent to the compost heap. It turns out a gorgeous fertilizer.

You can endlessly watch the chickens, they are very funny and peculiar animals. Each has its own character and its own antics. They make life around the house somehow lively and peculiar. Of course, there is no small amount of trouble with them. But they don't make life uncomfortable - on the contrary.

But then spring came, I ran out of nettle brooms, which I prepared for my chickens in the summer. I understand that they need vitamins. But they had nothing to hang, and one day she brought a broom from the bathhouse to throw it into the oven. It was quite fluffy and I suddenly thought, what if I gave it to chickens instead of nettle?

When I looked at the birch broom in the chicken coop a couple of days later, I saw that the chickens had plucked almost all the leaves. Only twigs remained from the broom.

Now I constantly hang used bath brooms, and chickens peck them with pleasure.

True, she once hung a broom tied with twine. My birds quickly ruffled it, pulling out all the branches individually. Since then, I have been tightening the broom with a collar to keep it tighter in the bunch.

You ask why I don't give them non-steamed brooms? Yes, simply because they hardly bite a fresh broom. Apparently, the birch leaf is bitter and the chickens leave it. And after he has been in boiling water, we see that it becomes tender and the bird quite suits the taste.

Of course, brooms are not the only source of vitamins for poultry. They eat cabbage, fresh grated vegetables and other food. But I never give them purchased supplements. After all, then there is no point in keeping your bird if you feed it with supplements. Such eggs, with chemistry in the composition, of course, are easier to buy in the store.

Here is such a random story with bath brooms, which get a second life in the chicken coop. Of course, then they go to the stove, they serve as an excellent kindling in the bath.

Of course, the plans for the next year are to prepare as many brooms as possible so that they can then be given to their chickens.