We hay (with an old school scythe) about 1/5 acre dedicated Rabbit Hay plot to get 14 rabbit breeders through Winter - three cuttings, all three put up for Winter feed ... but from May through Oct we just dry our lawn clippings from the lawn around the house like this. For 6 months lawn waste makes up about 40% of their daily feed.
@ayahoda1783Ай бұрын
Thank you very much for sharing your interesting experience. About a month ago I got 1 rabbit girl, and I still have 4 ex battery chickens, due to my health no more sheep, but I still dry grass clippings for my rabbit Zoe and chicken girls. All my animals former or today´s love it and it saves me money too.
@clydesmithiii21197 ай бұрын
Very special. Glad yourself is doing well in order to take care of these precious hens. They are so beautiful. Glad they have a great chicken mom. Bless you and your flock along with the sheep and ram. ❤
@ayahoda17837 ай бұрын
Thank you Clyde for such nice words. Wish you a Merry Xmas and All the best in 2024 !
@rodcaronsax9 ай бұрын
Bless you for saving these chickies and giving them a new lease on life ❤
@DrthGrth Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. I grew Caigua last year and it was prolific. I have caigua and achocha this year, and I guess they are very similar if not simply a different name for the same plant; they look slightly different from each other right now, at only 5" tall.
@ayahoda1783 Жыл бұрын
thank you for your comment, I didn´t know Caigua, but Mr. Google says yes - it is Achocha¨s another name. Wish you nice harvest and hope you¨d find it tasty as me 🙂
@lazariswann7483 Жыл бұрын
So you just lay it on the lawn and turn it over once ?
@ayahoda1783 Жыл бұрын
Yes you are right :-) just choose the nice sunny day so that it is dry in teh evening. I always mow the lawn according to weather forecast. Mow at about 10-11 a.m. and have it dry in large sacks in 5 p.m. :-) Wish you a nice day.
@chevypreps6417 Жыл бұрын
Thank your for the informative video. I just heard about this plant and ordered some seeds. I might try growing indoors for fun. And try again next year outdoors.
@ayahoda1783 Жыл бұрын
thank you for your comment, and let me then know if you were happy with your harvest and like its taste :-) have a nice day :-)
@moniakajal70582 жыл бұрын
Hi, i just curious to know can we eat or cook Achocha leaves?
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Hi thanks for an interesting question - but sorry, I don´t know....maybe Mr. Google may help? 🙂
@gearoidbyrne63232 жыл бұрын
How many hens is this from?
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
it is in the title - 5 ex battery girls
@niaazchistie42462 жыл бұрын
Eat them up
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Never - animals in our home have names and when they die, we bury them. They are our pets, friends, not food. I am giving at least few animals nice life. I am not vegetarian, but I strongly wish that animals would be treated better and killed fast (shots not undercut necks, leaving them slowly painfully dying...).
@niaazchistie4246 Жыл бұрын
@@ayahoda1783 sorry mam I didint mean to hurt u but meat is so tasty could not control it.
@ayahoda1783 Жыл бұрын
@@niaazchistie4246 it is OK you didnť hurt me, we also eat meat at home, but not our animals who are like our pets :-)
@blackcitroenlove2 жыл бұрын
Their pretty feathers are coming back in! I do love the red hens, so sweet.
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
yes very nice experience to watch them every day how happy they are - and also the shock how many eggs they gave us
@MrJonor2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant 😊 thanks
@williamjohansson11962 жыл бұрын
What if there is insect in the hay? Idk alot about hay.
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks for the question....I haven´t seen any insects in the hay, so far...i think that when sheep eat regular grass they also "meet" insects and have no problem with it, so in hay might be the same. In 10 years when I feed sheep with this hay we had no insects in it, no molds or other problems. They key is also not to store it in closed plastic bags, must be "breathing" bags - but I think this everybody knows. Nice day :-) Jana
@savingmayberry3872 жыл бұрын
What kind of grass is your lawn ? Could you do this with any kind of grass , or do you need a perennial that doesnt go to seed until it gets real tall?
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Our lawn is a natural meadow. You can do it with any lawn, even golf turf, but for animal´s good health it is the best to have there variety of grasses, flowers, seeds...so if sometimes we have empty places or with only dandelions or other grass, I buy a sack of meadow seeds and spread it there. Also every year I leave a small space of lawn to grow up to blossom - you´d be surprised with nice various blossoms and many nice butterflies, bees, bumblebees coming :-) - and I let the wind to spread the seeds then on our lawn. Also the meadow doesn´t get that easy dry as golf turf, which you must water more often. And meadow is nice soft, even kids can play barefoot. Hope I gave you the answer you wanted. Nice day :-) Jana
@savingmayberry3872 жыл бұрын
@@ayahoda1783 thank you so much 🙏🏻 I really appreciate the guidance.
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
@@savingmayberry387 Thank You for coming to my start up channel - I am glad to help if I could :-)
@raeastrea52032 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks so much! I am going to start using my hay to feed my homestead rabbits =) looks simple enough hehe and we never use pesticides on our lawn, its all natural. Thanks for the info!!!
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Thank you too for watching my video. I am sure your rabbits would love it. Let me know then :-) We have now winter, snow, and my mini sheep as usually prefer 1st our own hay from grass clippings than the regular hay bale.
@arthurslife18812 жыл бұрын
That’s not proper hay the stalks are chopped up for hay you need to cut at the bottom of the stalks and keep it in one peice
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
It is up to you :-), my videos are just for inspiration from my own experience - you don´t have to do it. I use it already many years, my sheep love this hay the most than the regular long, and several friends use it even for rabbits and guinea pigs pets.
@cody4812 жыл бұрын
Ayahoda It won't make extreme high quality long term storage food. It will make VERY useful short term food. If fed immediately after cutting every animal I've had will fight over it. If dried and stored for a month they still prefer it over last years cut.
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
@@cody481 Yes I think you are right. My sheep eat this type of hay within 7 mths, it is nicely dark green, we do not have a huge land, just 4500m2, I am hobbist no farmer. I am not expert in quality of hay in time, but I buy also 1 large commercial bale, which lasts for about 8 mnths, and if they bring me older "yellowish" sheep donˇt want it. They start to eat it when our doesn´t come and winter hunger force them :-)
@willdwyer67822 жыл бұрын
A conventional residential lawn mower grinds the grass into small pieces, which reduces its useful shelf life as animal feed. The finer you grind up organic material, the faster it will decompose. Ideally, hay should be cut in such a way that the grass is cut near the ground and left intact. I would recommend either cutting it by hand with a scythe or using a sickle bar mower.
@ayahoda17832 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I have classic mower, clipping are aprox. 4cm - 1.5inch long. My mini sheep preffer mower hay over commercial bail. They are healthy, I give them mower hay now 13th year. In com. bail there are not so many grasses as they have from our meadow lawn. When they eat bail they leave many grasses on the ground while mower hay they eat to the last piece. And I have 2 in 1 - nicely cut lawn and happy healthy sheep. The mower hay is also key important for me to keep sheep without teeth alive as long as possible. For them it is much easier to chew it by their gums and highly nutritious. The last is the storage, it can be compressed and takes less space. Cutting grass by hand....Honestly - I am lazy to do that in such quantities that I need... 😃
@darrylperkins73423 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to seeing more videos. Good luck with growing your channel! Why don’t you use promosm? It’s a handy tool to help you grow your KZfaq following.
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you Darryl - you know I just share my videos for fun and some learnings, I won´t use promosm, I don´t want to invest money in it, just my time. There are billions of other videos - it is amazing and suprising to me that someone finds me and subscribes :-) Take care
@Susie_Floozie3 жыл бұрын
They're such little beauties with their new plumage coming out! Seeing the stark vanes on poor little Cindy's wings broke my heart. Thanks for giving them better care and nutrition. They'll produce lovely plumage that will make them feel so much better. Flapping wings that are covered with strong, new feathers must be a gloriously powerful sensation!
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you Susie for your nice comment. My girls are now after 1 year looking as regular hens, when I hold them they are no more bony but having more muscles on, only Pinkie is still slim. I will make probably a short video. I hope they have a paradise in our garden now :-)
@jiricopak66553 жыл бұрын
Ty jim vaříš snad líp než moje žena :-))
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
uz jsi 2. kdo to rika :-), jedna znama ma slepice a rikala, ze ty jeji se takhle tedy nemaji..
@kaillcz3 жыл бұрын
zkusím to mám zaseto, děkuji Jano
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Neni zac - rostou paradne, je to jednoduche, a pokud vam budou chutnat, budete set kazdy rok, jak ted uz ja :-)
@itziahurtado3 жыл бұрын
great video..:) any tips on planting from seed? I have seeds to planf
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you Itzia - tip how to start - take some small plastic sachet, put in paper napkin, water it (just to be wet not much), and place on it the seeds and close the sachet. Leave it closed at home until you see that the seeds started to sprout, usually in about 4 days. Then open and place them either into garden bed or into garden pots and let them grow :-) Wish you a good harvest :-)
@itziahurtado3 жыл бұрын
Thank u for the fast response :) I will try that..I am so excited...I will try this way.....I was going to sow directly but would prefer your method Nd tip...Blessings and again thank u sooo much....I saved your video for reference...u covered so many great things
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
@@itziahurtado You can put it right in the soil too, but in this case it´d grow faster and 99.9% seeds would sprout :-) All the best to You :-)
@DrthGrth Жыл бұрын
Before soaking in paper towel, could one also just soak in water or is that basically going to do the same thing?
@pinkchickenwing95563 жыл бұрын
May God bless you and your family! You are truly wonderful for helping these chickens
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you - there are many "crazy" people like me helping animals and nature - I am not vegetarian but I have a naive dream that maybe once animals would be treated better...not as things. My ex battery chickens taught me that they are not silly at all, having feelings too...
@ruthbatt90293 жыл бұрын
Thanks for saving them free at last
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ruth, it is really a nice feeling to see them happy
@lydiamakedalerigab51263 жыл бұрын
Thank u!
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
I thank U for looking at my video :-) Nice day
@michaelapeterkova54373 жыл бұрын
so pretty! lucky to have 3 white babies
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you :-)
@michaelapeterkova54373 жыл бұрын
Great video! Nice to see them doing so well!
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank you :-)
@michaelapeterkova54373 жыл бұрын
So nice to see the chickens finally have a happy life!!!
@ayahoda17833 жыл бұрын
Thank You :-)
@Linda-we6en4 жыл бұрын
This is what I've been looking for. What kind of grass seed is your lawn? Fescue? Kentucky Blue?
@ayahoda17834 жыл бұрын
Hi Linda, I am in Europe - don´t know Fescue, Kentucky Blue - our lawn is from meadow grass. I´m sure it would sell under some name in your area too. Good luck :-) Jana
@Linda-we6en4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ayahoda17834 жыл бұрын
@@Linda-we6en You´re welcome :-)
@vlastajahoda40664 жыл бұрын
excellent !! : ))
@ayahoda17834 жыл бұрын
Thx :-)
@michaelapeterkova54374 жыл бұрын
beautiful!!! What a miracle of life and great to see his first steps 😍