The amaranth (also known as: squash) grows very vigorously, a few rains before the seedling, and then has grown into a plant, the flooding of the stars of the yellow flowers, very watery and appetizing. Our local people here earlier, with its plant stems and leaves, wash, add brown sugar boiled water, the treatment of red and white dysentery has a miraculous effect said. Even if you eat it as a wild vegetable or sweet or salty, it is also beneficial.

The amaranth grows fast, as long as you are not afraid of trouble, easy to take, sometimes the market can buy. Feed it once or twice a week, and pigeons especially like it. Amaranth can be washed and cut into sorghum grain size, high temperature sunny days, eat it on the pigeons is really refreshing and health care, good for the stomach and intestines, feathers are also beautiful, which may be amaranth slightly acidic and some of its unique trace elements of merit, often feed it you will find pigeons appetite is very strong, is really not sick to prevent disease.

The amaranth is very familiar to pigeon fanciers in the countryside as a kind of wild vegetable, he is an annual herb, the stem creeping on the ground, small obovate leaves, small yellow flowers, stems and leaves can be used as medicine, it is very strong, everywhere in the field, so it is also known as longevity picking. In the past, the countryside lack of medicine, amaranth once cured a lot of intestinal disease patients, especially for viral dysentery has a very good effect. In the twinkling of an eye a few decades have passed, when the prevalence of the cure of the prescription has long been no one asked, but it is in my pigeon career, played an inestimable role.

1, in the process of collecting amaranth, should be as far away as possible from the vegetable land, to avoid picking pesticide contamination of amaranth, illuminating the serious consequences.

2, absolutely not to the poultry, livestock farms near to pick, especially to stay away from chicken farms to avoid viruses, germs brought in.

3, in the summer and fall picking amaranth to fresh food is better, but before feeding should be washed with water to cool dry amaranth on the water, so as not to be in the feeding process on the ground dirt.

4, for the sun-dried spare amaranth is best in the fall after picking, when the amaranth growth has matured, out of the high rate of finished products, in the sun before the system should pay attention to watch the local weather forecast to avoid cloudy and rainy weather collection or drying, to avoid the amaranth moldy and deterioration.