Can you use edible flowers if your chickens free range?

[Kittys Coop]

Hi! A lot of my birds free range and it’s brought up a question. Can identified edible flowers still be used if your birds free range? If you know anything about Upstate NY in May a lot of our fields are covered in Dandelions and I would like to make some jelly. I would of course be cleaning and blanching the flowers. I can’t seem to find a solid yes or no answer.

 

[NatJ]

If you normally use the flowers, even though wild animals and birds might "range" in the area, I cannot see why chickens would make much difference.

(But I would not use any flowers that have obvious chicken droppings on them.)

 

[Mdrook]

Hi! A lot of my birds free range and it’s brought up a question. Can identified edible flowers still be used if your birds free range? If you know anything about Upstate NY in May a lot of our fields are covered in Dandelions and I would like to make some jelly. I would of course be cleaning and blanching the flowers. I can’t seem to find a solid yes or no answer.

I would lean torwards yes. So you use dandelions to make jelly?