Can chickens eat grape seeds?

I wish I would have told my chooks about the tomato plants being off limits...cause they destroyed my plants last year....none the worse for it...everyone survived! Maybe they, individually, didn't ingest enough to cause trouble.
 
Gosh yes. My chickens ate All the grapes on my grape arbor this year. I'd pick a few  clusters to feed them, then they figured out how to get up there and pick their own. They loved em and were crapping purple poo poo for about a month! No harm done.
I had to rescue a greedy youngster last year, after he scarfed up a grape and downed it....only problem is it wouldn't fit all the way down and he couldn't spit it back up...I didn't realize it till he started to stagger around....and turned blue! I quickly turned him upside down and gently massaged the grape back up and out of his throat....he recovered quickly and was back on his feet...but I crush the grapes if I have youngsters in the flock.
 

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