Keeping Your Feathered Friends Cool

Keeping Your Feathered Friends Cool

Summer is right around the corner (OK, it's here!!) and it's very important to keep your feathered friends cool during these hot months.

Mint is an excellent herb to give during the summer, as it grows well in most soils and is very beneficial.

Mint acts as a mild sedative and has calming properties.

Some other useful health properties of mint:

Enhances digestion, natural stimulant, cooling properties, blood cleanser, powerful antioxidant.

 Mint is rich in Vitamins A and C and also contains smaller amounts of Vitamin B2. 

 Mint also contains a wide range of essential minerals such as manganese, copper, iron, potassium and calcium. 

  It has also been used medicinally to aid digestion and as a healing compound. 

 So basically, the moral to this story is...use mint in everything!

Most of my birds relish the chance to gobble up as much mint as I'm willing to give them. I've found chopping it and sprinkling some in their water bowl, not only encourages them to drink more water but the mint (since it's chopped) will release some of it's oils into the water, so when ever they take a drink they get a little bit of it in their systems. 

My peafowl are my main mint eaters. They love that stuff! It's a good thing they are penned up, otherwise they would probably destroy our mint bush in .025 seconds!

One of their favorite pass times is to wade in their water bowl while fishing for mint. Yep...I know..my birds are crazy!

 Be prepared to grow lots of mint, as mint tends to take over what ever raised bed it resides in. But that's ok because we use mint in all sorts of things and the birds love it, so it doesn't go to waste.

 Tulsa: "PRINCE! I mentally claimed that piece of mint!"

Tulsa: "Give it to me!!!"

*Aspen*