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Azolla as chicken feed

At last weekend’s famer’s market, the super nice Uluwehi farm folks brought me some Azolla. This is an aquatic fern which might prove to be an easily grown local feed for chickens. I brought it home and put it in some water with a little horse manure dissolved. It started growing right away:

I have updated the chicken notes page with a whole new page for Azolla as a Feed for Chickens.

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