Can chickens eat figs?

[noregerts]

If I manage to get a ripe fig before the squirrels do, I am not sharing!

 

[RhodeIslandRed5]

Lol, you see no one in our family wants fresh figs for eating, they want them preserved by my grandmother first. We have a couple of young, small fig trees and only got a few off of them. Not enough to preserve, so I just wonder if it was safe enough to share with my girls. They are finicky eaters, so they may not eat them anyway.

 

[fldiver97]

Oh how I wish I could grow figs again!! Had them in Florida (no chickens at the time) I never managed to keep enough to make preserves.... they often didn’t make it in the house from the far back of the yard

 

[RhodeIslandRed5]

That was fun watching them eat a fig for the first time! I went in the coop and held out the fig in my hand. At first they didn't know what to think of it. Sweet Baby took the first nibble, thus provoking the others. Big Girl grabbed the fig from my hand and ran off with it, and the chase began! Somewhere along the line, Lazy Eyes ended up with it.

I gave a second fig, and this time, held the fruit firmly in my hand. The girls piled around my hand all pulling off bites like little kids eating candy. One girl grabbed the remaining bite. So funny to watch! Thanks, everyone for reassuring me that figs are safe! My girls obviously loved their new-found treat!

 

[That_australian_lad]

im sick of figs they are really comen in australia

 

[so lucky]

I have never eaten a fresh fig. How are they different than the dried ones you buy in the store? (Besides the obvious)
Are you growing them in your yard?

 

[That_australian_lad]

no the tree died after 20 years in my familys yardno more figs for me

 

[imnukensc]

Large fig tree in my backyard. The chickens, squirrels, deer, crows, and other birds all love them. Fine with me. They can have'em. But to answer the OP's question, yes, figs are fine for the chickens. Mine get whatever drops to the ground and something else doesn't get to first.

 

[That_australian_lad]

they are super sweet and have a sort of jelly like substance in side and scaterd seeds

 

[That_australian_lad]

in the jelly