toxic plants

Hello! Me and my husband are new chicken owners and I was hoping for some advise. We live in the rural Midwest (Kansas) and thus have an abundance of weeds in our yard which despite our best efforts, come back year after year. Currently my chickens are in a totally enclosed run with an...

Hi all, I'm in the mood to spruce up my garden this year and I'm wondering how cautious you all are with plants. My chickens are free range and roam the entire neighborhood, so they are already exposed to any number of plants that may or may not be edible. I've seen them devour entire bushes and...

Can pine needles and fallen leaves cause a goat's urine to turn a rusty brown? I dry lot and have lots of Eastern White Pines, a walnut tree, a few red Maples, and even a Kwanzon fruitless Cherry Tree. Once the leaves start falling, from the red maple and the fruitless cherry tree, will they...

Hi all, I am new to posting to this forum but an active reader as I have found my best advice seems to come from this website! Quick question though -- Is fringed yellow loosestrife ok for chickens to eat? I have seen people post about the purple loosestrife or loosestrife plant in general...

My chickens have the run of my backyard in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It's hot and dry here, with terrible compacted clay soil that doesn't drain well, so gardening is a challenge. The one thing that grows really well is succulents, and I inherited a lot of them in the backyard...

(1)Feverfew, medicinal /garden herb (2)Burdock, noxious agricultural weed (3) woodbine, 5-leaved Woody vine with blue berries (4) powered, tree-like weed with juicy purple berries (5)Lemon balm, garden/ kitchen herb Thank you so much. I want to leave as much vegetation as possible in the...

We have a decent sized suburban backyard that we've been cultivating for 4-5 years now, and recently came home with 4 chicks. We have a beautiful rhododendron that finally bloomed for the first time this year, as well as california poppies and two kinds of ferns (western sword fern and giant...

Hello chicken lovers! I’m a novice chicken lover myself, and my 6 chickies are only about 1-2 weeks old. We’ve been working so hard on creating a great coop/run for them in the yard, including manually ripping up about 300sq ft of concrete, and then just last night I read that avocado trees...

I have a patch of these bushes in my yard and I would like to put my temporary fencing around them to give the girls shade and more protection from hawks... But I do not know if they are safe for the girls to be in. One or 2 sites say no, the rest yes... so confused.

Hi all, I’m new here and hopeful that someone can help me. In December we rescued 4x ex battery hens. They’ve settled in well with us and currently have a small pen in the garden. We are now building a more permanent fence to secure their pen and I’d like to grow some nice smelling flowers...

http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html I've been going through the list of toxic plants posted from another thread and am horrified by how many of them I have growing in my yard already! What I'm wondering is if those that are listed as having plant raphides that will irritate the mouths...

I recently bought a pack of 10,000 Lacy Phacelia seeds (Blue/Purple Tansy), which I was planning on planting all over my yard to help bees, but I can't find any information on toxicity to ducks or goats. I will still plant them if they're toxic, just elsewhere, but if anyone has any information...

Each summer is an experiment in gardening and learning what grows well here and what doesn't, what produces and what doesn't, what prairie dogs and bunnies eat and what they don't. Doing some online reading/research I found that many critters won't eat daffodils because they are toxic on some...