A Discovery Journey into How We Feed Our Madre de Agua to Our Farm
The Madre de agua leaves are mostly used on our farm as raw, cut-and-carry forage for ruminants. Most of us, in my opinion, engage in this technique along with using other types of farm-available feed. Many of my Facebook friends questioned what they should do with extra Madre de Agua leaves. Here are some of the ways we learned to feed it to our pigs, ducks, and chickens.
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Harvesting Madre de Agua
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- Cut-and-carry forage harvested fresh Madre de Agua are fed directly to the chickens or pigs.
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| Dried Madre de Agua leaves |
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| Crushed dried Madre de Agua Leaves mix with corn |
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| Chop Madre de Agua leaves mixed, wet fed with rice bran |
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| Crushed Madre de Agua leaves |
- Crushed Madre de Agua leaves are combined with corn, rice bran, and commercial feed after being sun or air dried. You decide how much to feed. Although we are not professionals, we always employ a 1:1 ratio.
Note that we do not pretend to be experts and that our results are solely based on personal experience.
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| A sack of pelleted Madre de Agua |
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| Manual Madre de Agua pelletizer |
- Madre de Agua leaves are pelletized with additional feed materials like corn or rice bran. You can also utilize different forage, such as forage leaves or Moringa (Malungay) leaves.
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| Shredded /chop Madre de Agua leaves for silage / fermentation |
- Pigs can be given silage/ fermented Madre de Agua leaves directly. It can also be fed to chickens combined with our dried feed. The benefit of fermentation is that it levels the nutrients in the diet.
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