can i feed green onion tops?

[the funny farm6615]

i was just wondering, can you feed chickens the tops off of the green onions? i feed them carrot and potatoe peals, and broccoli/coliflower stems and such but never feed green onion before.

 

[toletiquesbysam]

Yep! I feed mine them all the time!!

 

[LarryPQ]

Yup. Mine usually ignore them for the other treats

 

[chicmom]

The only thing is that the eggs they lay might have an oniony taste. Sometimes that's yucky. And potatoe peels can be toxic if they eat too much.....it's on a list somewhere......

 

[toletiquesbysam]

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Green potato peels only. Mine eat potato peelings all the time!

 

[Siler]

When I first planted my onion crop last year I couldn't keep my hens out of it. They were eating the tops! I grew the patch mainly for the tops to eat and for seeds the following year. I never figured out why they would eat them if they are not that tasty to chickens. Apparently they thought they were tasty. I wondered if the green tops were natures own worm preventative.