I can't say that I agree with the entirety of the article but it's not bad advice...
For those of us living in the southeast we have an abundance of Bahia grass with a healthy sprinkling of Spanish needle for good measure. Both of these are excellent grazing fodder and chickens absolutely love the flowers and seeds of the Spanish needle and the seed shoots from the Bahia. I also confirmed with a professor at FSU that the nutritional content of both is outstanding for chickens. I have seen my chickens laying consistently and with richer yolks than when their diet is strictly layer feed. As an added bonus they are much happier birds who haven't even shown the slightest bit of distress under the Florida sun.
For those of us living in the southeast we have an abundance of Bahia grass with a healthy sprinkling of Spanish needle for good measure. Both of these are excellent grazing fodder and chickens absolutely love the flowers and seeds of the Spanish needle and the seed shoots from the Bahia. I also confirmed with a professor at FSU that the nutritional content of both is outstanding for chickens. I have seen my chickens laying consistently and with richer yolks than when their diet is strictly layer feed. As an added bonus they are much happier birds who haven't even shown the slightest bit of distress under the Florida sun.
