Topic: Siberian Pea shrub

[barleychown]

I am thinking about planting some Siberian Pea shrubs, as food for both my hens and my family. Does anyone here have any experience with them?

[Wrennie]

Never heard of them, let me go google..........zip................
Mostly I see it can be an invasive noxious weed. But the seeds are edible for fowl. And edible but bland for human food.
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Hmm
Is there a plant that is more productive for food?
What else do chickens eat that you can grow? Soybeans? ( ) wheat? ( )

[barleychown]

I have read that it can be a noxious weed, but not in heavy clay soils, which I have. I like the appeal of the pea shrub being a perennial, because I could use it to line the outside edge of the chicken run, and it wouldn't hurt them to eat it.

I also grow them beans and sunflowers and such, along with using clover as a living mulch in the areas of the gardens that they are allowed to free range in. I figure, every bit of food I grow for them is a bit less I have to buy, and the cost of feed has been climbing.

[Wrennie]

Do they eat/like soy beans, millet? I dont know what else is easy to grow that they eat.