Grow your feed, save money! Ducks/Chickens rejoice on the Homestead!
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Len and James chat about how comfrey can cut your feed bills and provide medicinal uses for your family! The Comfrey plant can cut your feed bill in half due to its high source of protein. Its grows quickly and can be used for feed, chop and drop fertilizer and to heal cuts/scrapes.
The hand scythe we use amzn.to/35191kT
00:00 Intro
00:12 Bees Love it
01:00 Use as fertilizer
01:36 Propagation details
02:20 How to harvest
05:32 Feeding baby chickens
06:40 Feeding Quail
07:33 Feeding Ducks
09:28 Feeding Meat Chickens
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Does that mean I can get the exact comfrey like yours by buying the seeds in Amazon?
What s that plant you fed to ducks?
Comfrey is very medicinal as well. Great for wound care muscle aches. Plants are amazing.
It's super good for menstural cramps and MS, too. Great stuff.
Thank you for your help, great information
I learned something here. Thanks!
Great info thanks
Very useful thanks. I am looking into homesteading and this comfrey looks like a great option
Thats great info thanks!
Great job James. I like that you gave the back story to the ducks and you were going to move the tractor where the greener grass is. I’d like hear more from James.
Great, thanks for sharing! Ready to start up with ducks soon!
Awesome thanks, we have tons of comfrey in the garden. I know it's good for the compost and to layer in beds but I didn't know we could feed it to the ducks and chickens
Thanks
My husband and I are comfrey fanatics too! Haha love it!
Great shirt and video “do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter in law against her mother in law.”
Love what you guys are doing. Keep up the good work, and great job James. New subscriber here.
Yes comfrey is edible if dried and put into capsules used for different health problems but must be taken with A LOT of Water. Its best use is for helping to knit broken bones and bruises. My hubby had chipped his shin bone so I put comfrey poultices on his leg twice a day for 5 or 6 days and it healed very nicely and fast. So yes it is a great heath benefit for you as well as yard and animals.
It's an analgesic that can actually kill you if you have stomach lesions. Don't use it any way you wouldn't use neosporin.
I did find it hilarious that nothing ate the comfry! Thank you for the laugh
Maybe they ate earlier
yeah because luckily animals are not as stupid as author of this video and know that comfrey is poisonous plant....
Bet you have had multiple jabs too.@@maksmaso4741
Hey new friend here!! Watching and learning
I haven't seen the birds running for the comfrey!
I grow comfrey for compost and mulch. Deer won't touch it, rabbits won't touch it and I won't touch it unless I have long sleeves and gloves on. It's very prickly!
Thanks. I plan to grow some on our new land where we will establish our orchard.
What kind of orchard are you planning?
It's a rice knife. Used in the Orient harvesting rice. Wish i had one. They are great for cutting weeds and other plants
Perma Pastures Farm in NC. On their website.
Yo Len, it actually says "Stainless Steel" in Japanese. - Jimbo
Hey Jimbo! Good to know! I love how well it works to cutting comfrey and other large chop/drop items. Have you ever used one??
I like to use a bread knife. It does as well as a scythe.
Good information; thanks for sharing. Any thoughts on raising their grain?
I planted comfrey all over my little urban homestead. The chickens won't touch it. But I'm glad to have it for making compost tea and chop and drop it around all my veggies and fruit trees :)
Can damage liver
@@snoodlegirl1794 who's liver? mine or the chickens' ? Excessive consumption of anything can damage a human (except lettuce greens I guess) I'm not worried about using comfrey in my compost as it adds tons of minerals and nutrients to the soil. And the constant warnings about not consuming comfrey have been debunked
@@snoodlegirl1794 I use comfrey for medicine. Can you share a source for what you said please?
@northernpianotuner3319 use small doses. Eating can kill you. It's great for topical use, like salve
I'm in need of comfrey seed for planting I'm from Nigeria let me know the cost and mode of payment and how to collect I will appreciate your assistance thanks
They don't love it too much. Didn't see one bird touch any of it! 🤠
I’ve had luck adding new foods to their ferments, then they will also eat them”fresh” but I don’t have comfrey… YET!
I’ll plant some with the Xmas cash I was just gifted. Also chickweed, which I don’t have. This year has been all about getting my 8 beautiful babies into egg production. Garden & forage pasture/protection can now be planned after I acquired a good powerdrill! Still need to get my dad’s table saw working.
Thank you so much for the info. Where would one get some of that there comfrey? Great job James!
I ordered some from Rise and Shine Rabbitry
Wondering where you got yr comfrey roots I've been having a difficult time trying to find them
Thank you so much for sharing
Have a Blessed day 💗
What a shame you have stopped uploading videos. I really enjoyed yours.
Its been a long time since we last did, lifes been a mess, we are not done though! Stay tuned!
My goats got into my comfrey patch. Hopefully some of it survived
Nice video just a suggestion on your chicken tractor just to make life easier moving it around a single trailer Jack on all 4 corners raise it up when moving it push hole tractor one hand in any direction when you reach the spot you want you can lower the Jack so bottom of the tractor back on the ground! Just a suggestion is all
If you have a large enough stand of comfrey, can you dry it in the summer/fall to serve all winter & spring?
Also, I'm growing Sunchokes & Canna edulis as year-round feed for my chickens & goats bcz they can eat the leaves and Tubers of both. Sunchokes leaves are 40% protein!! Canna edulis leaves are 10% protein. We're going to start new goat/horse bedding/manure compost piles in the chicken yard so they can harvest extra worms & bugs & compost the pile faster for us.
I want to learn to grow/find 75-100%+ of our chicken feed/grit/calcium.
What are the green trees where the ducks are and that flowering bush?
I don’t know man. You keep saying they all love it… Yet I can’t see a single bird in this video loving that comfrey Stuff.
Mine eat it like crazy but the chickens like it best once it’s wilted. My rabbits love it as well
Mine pick at my comfrey, young milk week, they eat the berries of the bittersweet nightshade. Those are the main three, plus my strawberries 😄 and grass seed heads
They say the sweat pea shrub too though I don’t have any
Yup birds and pigs alike
I know this is an older video. I just moved and left all of my comfrey under snow and ice. I need some more roots. Do you have any available? I like to mix a variety of plants. Comfrey, mulberry and willow are the dominant ones.
Have you seen a ducks, um manly part... he called him angel! That male duck is no angel🤣. I have 2! Look it up if you want a real shocker 🤯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For those asking where to buy the non seeding Comfrey, I purchased mine from Rise and Shine Rabbitry and was very happy with it.
I got mine when a sale was run so you may can ask if they're planning a sale soon.
Perma Pastures Farm in NC. Usually ships same day.
What do you think about dehydrating it r for winter feed?
The large Japanese text merely says " Stainless steel " ;)
My comfrey self-trims. I wondered if that was normal, bcz it grew up nice, then as the first stems fell over to the side all around, a new batch of stems grew up in the middle. Wish I would have known it would grow back so willingly when chopping down to the ground.
That first set of stems got wasted. I know for this year though! Thanks!
Where did you get your punisher shirt? My son would love one like that.
That’s for a baby Ninja
I would like to buy some comfrey if the price is right. Thank you.
Good job sir 🥳,but the problem is this; I became in love with the plant but I don't know how I can get it. I have searched alot in my home land but I couldn't find it. Do you think you can help me for that? 😔🤗
Bigger wheels would make it easier to move the tracker.
Every time we plant it peacocks find it and tear it up. We will have to grow it in a cage.
Thank you. Very cool video and good to learn from your skills.
Can you also suggest a ratio of how much of what in a duck feed? I'm having trouble with my local mill's laying mash and they aren't producing eggs for a long time now. I have to do something different.
But I'm thinking you might have better gas mileage if you cut half the plant off instead of the whole thing.
You can cut it right down to the ground, does not matter at all, it comes back 2-3 times a year depending on environment.
We feed ours cat food paws and claws and they start laying again it’s really high in protein and that’s what gets them to laying again
Thank you. Wishing you success and luck forward 2.
@@the60s87 You feed this to your ducks or chickens?
What is the name of that bush like plant in the duck's area with flowers?
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Mine don’t touch comfrey at all. My rabbits like it.
Do you ever sell comfrey root. I bought some Amazon and it all
Where do you buy comfrey
Can you dry it and store for winter? We have really cold winters. Thank you.
Yes❤
I would like to know the particular name for seeds you plant for comfrey Please.
Here in Costa Rica, I have not been able to find confrey, wonder what other plant is similar
Search for "Comfrey bocking 14".
Please tell me where can I buy that non-seeding comfrey that you are using? Thanks!
Perma Pastures Farm website.
Any other perennial duck feeds you can recommend?
what species is this comfrey?
We live in NE Texas - where do you find plants/seeds?
I got mine off of Etsy.
Hello. I'm new here & have a question about your ducks. Do you raise them to sell. Consume or just for the eggs?
How can I get comfrey? I am in grand junction colorado
How do we get comfrey from you?
Thank you! How we can get the comfrey?
You can order roots online.
What type of comfrey do you have and where can I get it?
Look for "Comfrey bocking 14". That's one of the variants where the seeds are sterile. Cheers
Do you feed your poultry comfrey once a day or more?
Thanks
Any time
What is the name of this variety of Comfrey you are growing? "Backing 14", is that correct?
Bocking 14
Do you still make videos
I’d like to get some comfrey can we touch base
How do I get in touch with you about Comfrey?
Hi i am from philippines. Can i buy from you? Hahaha i know too far. Bec you said its not from seeds...but cuttings.
Can I have some seeds of this plant?
I understand this. Bocking 14 variety of comfrey it does not spread by seed. So i am guessing that in the video the flowers the bees are on once polinated they either will not make seeds or the seeds are sterile. If anyone has info that is appreciated.
My chickens won't touch the stuff
WHERE DO YOU GET THE ROOT CUTTINGS ?
On the roadside or at the perimeter of woods
You can buy them online
What type of Comfrey is it? I planted comfrey all over and it was Suoer invasive
Goats will uninvade it for you
Bocking-14 is the name of the cultivar. It does not spread by seed but by root cuttings.
If the birds did not run for comfrey, they are unlikely to take any later on.
My chickens never run for any food. Idk lol it’s strange
I'm from Nigeria a commercial rabbit farmer in need of comfrey seed for planting if possible let me know the cost and mode of payment and sending to me I will appreciate you thanks
You can make a poultice for wounds, broken bones. Blend with water in blender. Comfrey is also known as Knit bone. God's creation is sooo amazing. He supplied us with all we need🥰🩵🕊✝️🩵 checkout our quail aviary. They thrive free ranging vs cages🥰
I started reading about comfrey and Google says that it's very toxic. ??
Google is not our friend
People have been feeding it to animals for years with no problem
Big tek wants you to fail
If you feed a bunch of it to a lab rat and nothing else you may see toxicity. Studies probably sponsored by industrial complex. So limit the intake to maby 10 % of animal diet and observe.
Where can I buy the comfrey?
Perma Pastures Farm sells it
#PermaPasturesFarm
@@johnfitbyfaithnet thank you!
You want something chickens eat plant alfalfa. Not some in vogue weed.
I wonder what your son thinks of your shirt
So where do you get it
Anything bearing seed is fruit, and it is good, anything that comes from thistle? Not so much 🤷
They dont to zeem to attack it
I just read it’s toxic to chickens
Please give your birds at least 1 acre of land to move on. Those cages are too small and inhumane!
Terrible T shirt.
Not if your goal is to let people know that you are a wishful thinker, and looking for more irrational thinking friends to help bolster your shallow sense of reality. Of course Critical thinkers simply laugh at the religious like they were small children who believe in Satanclaus.