Can chickens eat ferns?

[Ecarroll]

So I’m making a vat of experimental dye with ferns, and I will be straining out the actual ferns from the water before adding fabric that has been mordanted. So these are basically just boiled/simmered fern leaves. My question is can I give these to the chickens after I remove them from the dye vat? (Not sure what kind of fern, a tiny bit of cinnamon fern and mostly another kind I’m unsure of)

 

[SandyRiverChick]

My Chickens eat ferns

 

[Ecarroll]

My Chickens eat ferns
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I read bracken fern is poisonous so just wondering

 

[Ecarroll]

Also I now know it is hay scented fern

 

[PopoMyers]

If in doubt, throw it out. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Al Gerhart]

See if they will eat it fresh. If so try a small amount for a few days. Chickens are pretty clever about not eating things that will hurt them. Unlike horses which can be quite stupid about that.