Can chickens eat tomatoes?

[PriceFamilyFarms]

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I had to put an electric fence around the family garden...but forgot to plug in the energizer after I mowed the lawn...tomatoes are history, peppers are history...yellow squash and zucchini are undisturbed.

 

[Gypsi]

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Fences are mahvelous inventions!!!

 

[LadyinRed]

I don't know if your chickens CAN eat them, but mine do.

The chicks get all the old/damaged tomatoes from one of the local farmer's stands here and they LOVE it.

Now.. The true question is how to turn pink silkies back to white?

 

[ducks4you]

If you LOVE your tomatoes keep them away from your free-ranging chickens!! Give them the ones that have pits, scars and look "past it." They will think you are their hero!!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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[greenguys]

glad I found this post. We've got tomatoes coming out of our ears. The chickens loved it when we froze up a bunch of corn on the cob and gave them a few.

Greg

 

[greathorse]

A little bitty mockingbird ate a tomatoe with no ill effect. Will chickens be hurt by eating tomatoes? Think about it!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Makes chickens kinda sound like feathered GOATS :COOL:

Actually, goats are rather picky eaters. Chickens eat WAY more things than a goat will. Any fresh, seedy-type veggies mine love - tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, etc.

 

[bigdaddyabc]

I am afraid of the day when I don't have any more buggy tomatoes from my garden for my flock. I will have to remember NOT to wear red in the run / coop area. *shudders at the thought*

On the other hand, maybe if I put red food coloring in theie layer pellets they will eat it, cuz they sure didn't take well to it at first.....hmmmmmm

 

[laughaha]

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Actually not a stupid question- there are lots of plants that one species (or even sub-species) can eat while another will either get really sick or die by eating it. Then you gotta factor in the reason why the mockingbird didn't eat the whole tomato (unknown). And then there are parrots who eat poisonous seeds all the time but eat clay to counteract the poisons:

http://www.eparrots.biz/chow.html

I don't know if mockingbirds do this or not, but just pointing out that the question wasn't stupid......