Can Chickens Eat Whole Peaches?

[Regina Larsen]

Yes. In 4.2 seconds.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

We have a friend who raises pigs for Luau’s and he picks up all the grocery store waste for them.

That's the way it used to be done. It's why we have "trash" and "garbage"...they didn't used to mean the same thing.

I personally hope that some day, "waste stream fed" replaces "organic" as the thing people are willing to pay more for. Organic is great and all, but feeding food waste and other organic waste (weeds, crop residue, etc.) is far more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

 

[Nicrom]

When I was a kid, we had chickens who got plenty of garden and food scraps. They must have had the remains of a peach at some point, because the pit got jammed under the corner of the coop...where it sprouted and started to grow. It grew, and grew...and started producing peaches.

Literally thousands of peaches were harvested from that tree over a decade plus (long after my parents didn't raise chickens any more and I'd moved out) before the tree finally succumbed.

Talk about the ultimate "volunteer"!

Loved this, so glad you shared this story with us!

 

[Syd123456]

Will they peck at the seed? I thought the seed was poisonous.

This is very old post but for any new people yes the seed is poisonous and it is best to remove it before feeding them peaches

 

[JacinLarkwell]

This is very old post but for any new people yes the seed is poisonous and it is best to remove it before feeding them peaches

Chickens won't eat the seed though. And even if they did, my bigger worry would be choking than the tiny amount of cyanide in it. I toss stone fruits to my birds all summer and they leave the pits where they fall. Makes a fun game of 'pit or weird poo?' when walking around the yard

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is very old post but for any new people yes the seed is poisonous and it is best to remove it before feeding them peaches

Chickens won't eat the seed though. And even if they did, my bigger worry would be choking than the tiny amount of cyanide in it. I toss stone fruits to my birds all summer and they leave the pits where they fall. Makes a fun game of 'pit or weird poo?' when walking around the yard

Many fruit seeds have cyanide in them but the amount is so small it might kill an insect but will not harm your chickens unless they eat a huge amount of the seeds. Apples are one. When I make apple jelly I don't dump a bunch of seeds where they can get to them.

But I have fruit trees including peach and plum in my run and other fruit trees in the vicinity. They get any fruit that falls from trees in the run and I toss "bad" fruit into the run, including apples. They are not going to get a high enough dosage pecking at the apples and getting a few seeds to harm themselves.

When I butcher my chickens I save the gizzard to eat. I cut it open and see what is inside as part of cleaning it. I've found peach or plum pits in the gizzard so they can and do swallow them. Then they get ground up in the gizzard. I have never had one choke to death or die from the tiny amount of cyanide from eating a peach or plum pit.

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to mention what I have observed.

 

[cincyfarmgirl]

Is the pit or seed of a peach or apricot poisonous to a chicken? I believe we should keep them away from Goats but what about Chickens? I think parts of an avocado which is a pitted fruit also is bad for chickens. Can anybody give me the Accurate details?

 

[cincyfarmgirl]

Yes. In 4.2 seconds.

But do you know if the pit or the seed of Stone fruits is poisonous to chickens? I believe it’s poisonous to Goats. What about Chickens?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Is the pit or seed of a peach or apricot poisonous to a chicken? I believe we should keep them away from Goats but what about Chickens?

Obviously you did not read my post #26 in this thread immediately above your post. I tried to address both of the poisoning and choking issues of chickens and fruit pits like peaches and plums. There is not enough poison in a peach or apricot pit to poison something the size of a chicken.

I think parts of an avocado which is a pitted fruit also is bad for chickens. Can anybody give me the Accurate details?

Accurate details with Avocados! I wish! There is so much conflicting information about them being poisonous and what parts are poisonous to chickens that I don't have any confidence in any of the answers.

I suspect there is a part of the avocado (I do not think it is the pit) that contains a substance that can be harmful to chickens. Are they likely to eat enough of that substance to harm themselves if they can feed off of avocadoes? I don't know. There is so much uncertainty and confusion from different sources that I would not feed them any part of an avocado. To me it is not worth the risk.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Is the pit or seed of a peach or apricot poisonous to a chicken? I believe we should keep them away from Goats but what about Chickens? I think parts of an avocado which is a pitted fruit also is bad for chickens. Can anybody give me the Accurate details?

are just weird for birds in general. I eat a lot of stone fruit and my birds have never had issues eating the scraps