nettle tea

jimmy white · October 22, 2006

my father used to take the top 6 inches of th stinging nettle chop it up and make nettle tea for the pigeons he used to say it was detoxifying for their system , full of iron, and was good for the blood , this was off course years ago , but just mention it now as i never here of pigeon fanciers mention this now,, does anyone ever use it or if they have have they found it beneficial :)

Beanz · October 22, 2006

Jimmy I used it this last season but it was teabags from the health shop also used Dandelion ones as well, don't know if it was beneficial or not but we did win 8 x 1sts & 7 x 2nds in the club and

1 x sts, 2 x 2nds in the fed.I was advised to try it by a local fancier who normally uses it but did not use it this time and he flew crap even he does not know if it does any good and so he says he blames the birds this year, but food for thought.

Roland · October 22, 2006

Agree...but takes so much time and effert like... have had them on my plate ... but a great bunch boils down to nowt ... trhisthe the same, but everything on a thistle is ediable.. and has great body make ups...

Beanz · October 22, 2006

Roland don't see too much time and effort with tea bags make the brew and leave till it cools down and then top the drinker up with water

October 22, 2006

jimmy, have used stinging nettle every week for the past 30 years , i dry them and use them as a Tea ,to the tea i add Rue and crushed cinnamon sticks etc ? they also get a syrup made from elderberries at least once a week keeps them in excelent condition ....ray

jimmy white · October 22, 2006

when my birds were having to be kept in by6 loft and 8 by 6 aviary i gave the this quite often [as these birds werent getting a pick at natural things outside[ i found this beneficial for the birds , also put the fresh mole hill earth in for them to pick at ,also, i now noticed that when they were getting out , they were eating the white flowers off the allycum [spellt wrong ;D] but this didnt seem to do them any harm , theve never been treated for worms, cocci etc for about a year , but look ok , but just out of curiosity ive taken their droppings for testing , so it might be interesting [or embarrasing ;D] what the results show :)

Roland · October 22, 2006

All interesting posts them. I like the post of Silverwings especially.

Have of course eaten stinging nettles years gone by. they boil down to next to nothing. And seemingly Elderberries have a great sauce of Vitamin C...and other commodities of course and is being talked about for a few years now and I still haven't tried them... year befare last was picking them... but kept going back to picking the Blackberies and mushrooms the selfish uncaring s*d I am lol.