THOSE WONDERFUL BANANAS

Bananas grow in multiple clusters at the East side of Patty's farm.
There beneath the banana shrubs we have allowed the Sunshine Chickens to roam and catch their worms and forage in the grasses. The soil there is cooler, moist and better for grasses and vegetables and grasses. It is also better for earthworm growing, the shade providing excellent environment for many creatures that sustain one another. Cooler temperature manifests itself in this area, much better and cooler than the open areas around it.
We have discovered recently that the Banana fruits, once ripened well, are good feeds too to the chickens, that is, if the black crows constantly flying in the blue skies, do not get to these bananas ahead of us. Cardavas(sabas in Luzon), lacatans, and smaller senorita breeds abound here. Today we do not sell them commercially, and use them as feeds for the chickens.
To our better surprise, even the banana shrub trunk is good feed for the foraging chickens. Sliced into two, the trunk's core is a wonderful desert for these animals, constantly picking on it with their beaks, until the core is consumed. The remaining covers, still moist, are then thrown into the pig areas where the hogs devour this too with glee. What happy animals!