Health benefits of using fennel seeds for your chickens-From planting your own, feeding, health benefits, and using them in nests, and bedding.

You can create a natural bedding, nesting area for your chickens that will make them healthier, relieve stress, stimulate laying, and make the coop smell good. You can also create herb gardens for your chickens to munch on these great egg laying stimulants. Sprinkle fennel seeds in nest boxes, bedding, in and around your coop. Scroll down to see the surprisingly great health benefits of fennel seeds for your chickens and you!

Health Benefits From Fennel Seeds

Fennel is an herb from parsley (Umbelliferae) family is well known for it's anise, licorice like flavor, and it's unique health benefits symbolized by courage, longevity, courage, and strength but most important is it is commonly used as an antioxidant (kaempferol and quercetin), supplement for dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins by providing protection from cancer, infection, and neurological disease because it helps remove harmful free radicals from the body. Being rich in dietary, insoluble fiber fennel increases water absorbtion in the body and can ease constipation.​​ Several volatile essential oil compounds in fennel make it an ideal antioxidant, improve digestion, and reduce gas. Fennel seeds are a rich source of copper (important for red blood cell production), iron (help red blood cells form), calcium (improves bone health), potassium, manganese, selenium, zinc, and magnesium.
Fennel also provides many vitamins essential for good health, such as, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and several B-complex vitamins which help improve overall health.
Reference: Fennel seed nutrition facts. (2/2/2016). Retrieved from http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/fennel-seed.html

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