Are tomatoes OK?

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whillergee

whillergee

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Nov 28, 2009
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I think I've heard that tomato leaves and plants aren't good for chickens (being nightshade plants), but are tomatoes OK to give them?

I have 7-week-old girls that looooove treats, and two babies that are still only on starter.
 
The tomatoes themselves are fine and mine chickens absolutely LOVE them!
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I would limit the tomato treats to the older chooks though.
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Last summer I was overloaded with both cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes and I'd always throw a few in the run for them to munch on.. It was hilarious when one would grab a cherry tomato and play keep away with it... Just make sure you take the stems off and there is no green on the tomato...
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Just fed mine some the other day for their first time and they LOVED them. How often would you recommend? Once a week, or so?
 
whillergee said:
I think I've heard that tomato leaves and plants aren't good for chickens (being nightshade plants), but are tomatoes OK to give them?

I have 7-week-old girls that looooove treats, and two babies that are still only on starter.
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No leave or plants...but tomatoes are ok. But limit them if you can. Mine get into my tomatoes and are still young. Next year I am going to have to put up a fence around the raised bed
 

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