Can chickens eat muscadines?

[Desirai]

So my idea was to plant a muscadine vine on a trellis near part of the run.

This would provide a source of shade and a source of treats.

Are muscadines poisonous?
Or, do chickens gorge themselves? Would they end up eating so much that they'd explode? Like if you feed a fish too much fish food it will get impacted and die. Does this happen to chickens, or do they overall know when to stop eating?

 

[welasharon]

They love them!

 

[Imp]

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[welasharon]

I've not seen mine eating the leaves but, then again, they grow like mad so it would take a lot to miss any. Mine have never had any problems eating them.

 

[beach livin']

mine eat them. i have wild musc's on my entire back property line. they grow like crazy too. be ready for canning once they come on full force; they make awesome jelly

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[CandleGal]

I know this is an old thread but I just trained my muscadine vine to grow over my coop. The grapes make wonderful sweet wines as well, for those interested. I live just down the way from one of the largest muscadine wineries. My chicks will get the leaves/vines but I hope to keep most of the grapes for the humans so I'm running the vines up high

 

[hfaucett]

Another late comer to this thread, and I'm too far north to grow this grape, but I can tell you that I have read literature from the University of Georgia's research department showing that muscadine grapes have incredible antioxidant/anti-inflammatory effects, and that feeding the skins and seeds to chickens is very beneficial to chickens--actually mimicking the effects of antibiotics without the bad side effects.