Spring offers herbs to revitalize and energize. Herbs that can also cleanse and enrich and fortify. New rigors and activity from your flock in the spring will demand increased energy and nutrients. Egg laying, brooding, and raising the young, makes a high energy demand on the hen. She will need extra rich nutrients, along with vitamins and minerals. Young chicks need intense food energy for growth and immune system building. The environment will not only offer native herbs and bugs on range to eat, but also exposure for young chicks to microbial and protozoa that will need a healthy immune system to keep it all in balance.