Can chickens eat tomatoes?

[greathorse]

They are no fools they wait until they are fully ripe and eat a peck or two out of each one making sure they get the sweetest one in the patch

 

[gavinandallison]

Our chicks attack them like they are crack!

 

[josh44]

If Tomatoes are good for us, they must work wonders for chickens.

They have vitamin C, we personally believe, the extra vitamin C, boosts up their Imune system.

We figure is just common sence

. Don't over do it though.

To much of anything now a days, is not good.

 

[Gypsi]

Well it's too hot, my tomatoes aren't bearing fruit anymore, so my chickens and I are making do with swiss chard (which seems to survive anything), until the watermelons and canteloupe ripen anyway. They don't love swiss chard as much as tomatoes, but they like it, and nutritionally the stuff outclasses spinach & all kinds of lettuce, so I figure they are getting their variety vitamins. Just about one leaf a day per hen. With a couple of grapes for dessert. My chickens obviously suffer from neglect. Had a visitor in the pond area the other day. I walked out the door and the chickens headed for me at a run. My visitor never saw chickens act like that - had to explain treats.

 

[blackbelt]

Well Now you know the answer. Cool they also eat bugs, fleas.etc. Their great to have around. Mine I swear dance to the music. Chickens are great. All livestock is great. God blessed Us!

 

[Ironmaiden]

Mine love tomatoes too. I kinda wish they didn't! Now I have to put up a fence around the garden. Love my chickens!

 

[kcsunshine]

I threw so many tomatoes into their tractor last summer (and my neighbor was bringing 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes and cukes to me). This spring all these little volunteer tomatoes came up in the area where their tractor was. They got out and made a beeline to those plants before I could stop them. I was sick, thinking I had let them poison themselves - not one sick chick in the bunch - guess the plants are not poisonous to them.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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Nope, mine ate tomato plant, squash plants, pepper plants (sweet and hot!) zuke and bean vines. The entire garden.

Twice!!

They will also eat mice, frogs, and small snakes while broadcasting to the entire neighborhood while doing it!!

 

[swordgeek]

Yesterday morning, mine got leftover caprese salad from a dinner party: generous slices of fresh mozzarella and ripe tomato on a bed of baby spinach, drizzled with olive oil and a very expensive aged balsamic vinegar, and garnished with basil and black pepper. They looooove their tomatoes, and the other stuff as well. I wasn't sure how the balsamic would go over but here were no complaints. Spoiled chickens. I should have kept it for lunch!

 

[woodmort]

I throw the tomatoes from the garden into the chicken yard just to watch the birds chase a rolling tomato down the hill.

What is interesting is that if I throw in a few at a time they seem to remember where they all land and are able to find them. Apparently chickens have memories.