are these poisonous to chickens?

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I love that link (thanks) although it confused the heck out of me: it has cabbage on it?

And I thought everybody hung cabbage as a chicken toy?


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CABBAGE (Brassica sp.); leaves; plant is goitrogenic.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

digitS' :

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I gotta say again that a list from the Reptile Keeper's Handbook on a business website that is no longer in the poultry business just seems plain odd

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However, here's one for humans:

UCDavis

and, here's one for livestock:

West Virginia University

and, here's one for veterinarians

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Merck Veterinary Manual

ALL, list chinaberry as toxic . . . including, as Autumn T notes, that list for the iguanas

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Steve

Thank you! After reading through the list on the first link, I wondered why my chickens were still alive.

They don't touch some things, like Alum and blackberries, but eat Miner's Lettuce and plums as a regular habit. I was starting to think I would have to keep them locked up in the coop.​

 

[digitS']

Brassicas, including cabbage, are goitrogenic in people too . . . I guess.

Acres of a lot of those plants are grown as forage for all kinds of livestock, however.

Sometimes I like to look at this webpage. It is on the UCDavis site:

safe plants

Steve

 

[BeckyLa]

I wish I had a pecan tree.... However, I do have chinaberrys and they hang over the coops. They are very prolific and have lots of clusters of berries, but my birds have never bothered with them. I have lived here nearly three years and the chickens have never gotten sick from eating the growth around here. One thing about chickens, they normally do not touch things that are bad for them.

 

[gritsar]

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I agree 100%. I've said this before and I'll say it again. My chickens free-range on 80 acres. There are lots of goodies for them to eat and also lots of things I'm sure are not good for them to eat. Obviously I can't follow them around all day making sure they eat only what's on some list. No one's been poisoned yet, so they must have some sense about what's okay to eat.

 

[ranchhand]

Ditto here. I let them out and they seem to know what's good and what's not. (pardon me while I knock on wood)

Maybe that knocking on wood works, as long as it's not a chinaberry. Those are fast-growing shade trees, and pretty, but the wood is weak in bad weather and the berries are a nuisance. NOT a good tree to plant in Central TX (came to SC from Austin, what I thinking).

I don't feed cabbage or anything in the brassaica family because to me, it makes for some funky tasting eggs. Anybody else think so?

 

[gritsar]

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Funny you should mention that. I've had a question about that sort of thing in mind for awhile.
I've don't have experience with this in chickens, but I know that the taste of a cow's milk can be tainted by what they eat - rose bushes and wild onions come to mind. I wonder if the same would be true with chickens?
I've read of people upping the protein in their chicken's diet by feeding tuna. Wouldn't that make the eggs taste funky?

Things that make you go hmmmmmm.