Cabbage is bad for them???

[Jeeper1540]

i always feed mine cabbage. when i feed them purple cabbage their poo comes out blueish

lol

 

[tcmstalcup]

How absolutely ridiculous. Feed the poor chickens something fun. Mine eat all those things listed. Usually if its that harmful, they won't eat it. Mine would eat cabbage every day if it were offered or I got it free.

 

[teach1rusl]

Mine have been eating it for 6 months (the cabbage tetherball) and are as healthy as horses. Surely by now SOMEONE would have responded in a negative way if they'd had a bad experience.

 

[Royd]

I planted Rape, years ago, and it, now, self seeds, for two crops a year....It is a rather course green. Honestly, it's so prolific, I wouldn't need to plant anything else.

Anyway, the chickens do not seem to care for any of the plants, in the Mustard family, which includes the Rape.....The Coles and Brasiccas, I must protect, if I want anything to eat.

 

[LesGan]

Mine love cabbage.....but did you know that kale is the "chocolate" of the chicken world!!!

 

[crazyhen]

A long time ago about 40 years the cabbage had a bad poison on them.. I can remember Mom pealing so many leaves and then washing forever to make sure we would be ok. Maybe it came from that.
My chickens like anything green, orange, etc. I've not had them really turn down much, unless it was too old and tough. Gloria Jean

 

[Jeeper1540]

i read not to feed them avocado or potato scraps but i forgot and accidentaly fed them old potato chips and they were ok.

 

[backdoorchicken]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

 

[Camelot Farms]

The raw potatoe peelings do have toxins in them. Once cooked, liked the chips they are ok.

Mine like doritoes!

 

[digitS']

I guess you are talking about the link at the bottom of the CHICKEN TREATS chart. That's connects to poultryhelp.com's "toxic plant" page.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and read that this list is from the "Reptile Keeper's Handbook." Go to "poultryhelp"'s home page and learn that "WE ARE NO LONGER IN THE POULTRY BUSINESS. JUSTINE HAS FILED FOR DIVORCE . . . " etc. etc. Check out the "About Us" and you learn that " been raising chickens on and off since 1971." That seems to be the extent of their expertise.

First of all, almost any plant can be toxic if it grows under the wrong conditions - like in a flooded field, during a drought, or after it is sprayed with a herbicide. An animal may simply eat too much of it and that can endanger the animal's health - like bloat in cattle.

Instead of relying on a reptile keeper's handbook, how about using something like the "Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System" put together by the ag agency of the Canadian government. It will give you specific references to poultry poisonings. They also talk about the relative toxicity of different plants. After all, taking a nibble of something toxic doesn't usually mean instant death. Often, vets are talking about impairment to productivity -- like beef cattle not gaining weight well or laying hens, not laying many eggs.

Cornell University scientists, and many schools of agriculture and veterinary science like Purdue and Auburn, maintain online information about toxic plants.

edited with another source from Cornell.

Steve
"Cooking potatoes does not destroy the solanine." That's the toxin in green spuds.