Grass feed for humans and animals: features, recommendations and reviews

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The expression "pasture" is probably familiar to every person. Most people imagine what it means. In the generally accepted sense, such food is free food, usually not very tasty, but containing enough calories to survive. Such food can be used in different situations by both humans and animals.

What is the composition?

Most often, the term "grazing" refers to grasses and small shrubs. All kinds of mushrooms and berries also fall under this definition. To some extent, various kinds of bugs, spiders and worms can be considered pasture.

Of course, there are other varieties of similar food suitable for animals or humans. Therefore, pasture is quite difficult to disassemble by composition. This concept is very broad, so a variety of foods can fall under it. Below we will deal with what specifically can be considered such food in a given situation.

Free pet food

For livestock and poultrysuch food is almost any herb. It can be nettle, quinoa, mint, leek, euphorbia, dandelions, etc. For cattle and small cattle in the summer, pasture is one of the main sources of calories. Most of the day, cows, goats and sheep graze in the pastures.

Of course, free food is good food for various types of poultry (such as turkeys or chickens, for example). Pasture in this case can help save the farmer. Many owners of household plots release the bird to feed in the yard and on the street.

With some stretch, pasture can also be called aquatic plants. They feed on domestic ducks and geese. Such feed also allows owners of household plots to save on the diet of poultry. Farmers do not release only rabbits for pasture. Even pigs are often allowed to roam the field and look for something to eat.

Waste

Sometimes strange things can fall under the concept of "grazing" for animals. In India, for example, cows are known to roam freely through the streets of towns and villages. Of course, no one feeds these animals, sacred to the local population, on purpose. Therefore, heifers and bulls are forced to eat in landfills, of which there are simply a huge number in this country. Thus, household food waste can sometimes also be classified as pasture.

Russia is not much richer than India. Cows on the streets in our country, fortunately, are notare walking around. But all sorts of trash cans are a good help for the same cats and dogs. Of course, this is not very good. But, unfortunately, Russia does not have the opportunity to maintain pet shelters, as, for example, is done in the United States and developed European countries.

Grazing for humans

For people, such food is most often quinoa or nettle. For example, in the past century alone, the starving population of Russia had to eat just such pasture twice: in the 30s of the last century and during the Second World War. Nettles and quinoa were used to make soups, herbal cakes, etc.

Grazing in the forest

Of course, free food can be used by humans not only in difficult historical periods. Anything can happen in life, and you often have to switch to such food, for example, when you get lost in the forest. In this case, in addition to nettle and quinoa, herbs such as sorrel, cow parsnip, oxalis, lungwort, field cabbage, or even plantain and clover can also be used to maintain strength.

Good pasture for a person lost in the forest is also such berries as rose hips, raspberries, blackberries, junipers, lingonberries, etc. Of course, in groves and oak forests, among other things, you can find the most different mushrooms - boletus, porcini, rowan, boletus, russula.

Grazing in the steppe

It is, of course, more difficult to get lost in the steppe than in the forest, but still it is possible. In such an area, bird eggs (for example,larks), cereals, elm buds, wild garlic, threshing, hazel grouse. You can also support your strength with hemp seeds.

Nomadic peoples in ancient times caught ground squirrels from their burrows, roasted them on a fire and ate them. The meat of these animals in this case can also be attributed to pasture. But eat it, of course, is only when absolutely necessary. Gophers are carriers of many diseases.

After the rain in the steppe, as in the forest, mushrooms appear. Most often it is raincoats or champignons. Also quite edible rows and feather grass are common in the steppe.

Free food by the sea

It is much easier to find food in such places than in many others. Eating pasture by the sea is a relatively simple matter. For example, such edible and rather tasty plants as wild parsley, duckweed, mertensia, chinka, and garlic grow in abundance in coastal meadows.

Actually on the beach, various kinds of shellfish can serve as pasture - mussels, nutellas, natiki. The meat of these marine inhabitants is very nutritious, but it should be eaten carefully and not in too large quantities. Many mollusks, including mussels, are capable of accumulating poisonous or harmful substances in the tissues of their body. Of course, various aquatic plants can serve as pasture near the sea. Edible, for example, kelp, alaria, ulva, "bubbles" of fucus.

In the tundra

In such areas, find something that falls underthe definition of "grazing" is, of course, difficult. However, there are plants here that are well suited as food for livestock. For example, various kinds of lichens are a very good pasture for reindeer. Moss is the most common and well-known species of such plants.

The meaning of the expression in a figurative sense

Thus, pasture is, first of all, free food found, most often of plant origin. However, this expression once had a slightly different meaning. Previously, in Russia, all governors and chiefs who received positions in cities were supported by the population. Such places were especially attractive for representatives of impoverished noble families. These positions, for obvious reasons, were called "pasture". Often they brought very good income.

Recipes

Below we bring to the attention of the reader recipes for dishes, one of the components of which is pasture growing in the fields or even just in the garden. They can be prepared, for example, in early spring, when there are no vegetables and fruits yet.

Cheerful Sorrel Casserole

To prepare this dish you will need:

• 500g sorrel;
• 50 g dill;
• 2 cups of milk;
• ½ art. rice;
• 2 tbsp. l. breadcrumbs;
• 4 eggs;
• s alt, pepper.

Sorrel and parsley finely cut and mixed. Next, the mass is s alted and simmered over medium heat (5 minutes). Rice is boiled in two glasses of milk. Cool it and mix with the green mass. Proteins are whipped into foam and also added to rice. Lubricate the pan with vegetable oil and spread the mass on it. Rice is baked in the oven.

Kundums from nettles

In this case, you need to take:

• 500g nettle;
• 2 bulbs;
• 100 g mushrooms;
• 50 g dill;
• regular dumpling dough;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

First prepare minced meat. To do this, nettles are washed and doused with boiling water. Throw it in a colander, and then chop it very finely. Mushrooms are also boiled and cut into pieces. Add onion and dill to the mass. The dough is rolled into a tourniquet, cut into pieces and circles are made. Squares of about 5 x 5 cm are cut out of them. Minced meat is placed on each. Kundums are made and boiled in mushroom broth.

Reviews of dishes

Thus, we found out what pasture means. The best help such food is, of course, for livestock. Farmers have the best reviews about pasture, which allows them to save a lot and make their farms more profitable. But for a person, such free food can be very useful. And not only in extreme situations.

Of course, in the summer or autumn, hardly anyone will eat any salads and dumplings with grass. The only exception is pies with sorrel or, for example, nightshade. But in the spring, such food is quite capable of supporting strength and filling the body with vitamins. Of course, in thistime of year, most people's opinion about such dishes will be positive. And from some original salad of leaves and flowers of dandelion, sorrel and garlic, properly prepared, many, perhaps, will not refuse.