Cedar trees and chickens

[purr]

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Please read this post. Silkie is on the mark Cedar will not hurt your chickens unless your using the shavings for litter and its not just chickens its any small pet. guinea pigs, bunnies, mice, rats. I inadvertently killed a pet mouse this way. He died wheezing like an asthmatic.Please don't make the same mistake I did.

 

[franko]

I live in Hunt,Tx and have gazillions of cedar trees on my property and my birds sit in, around and under them all the time. Good luck.

 

[waldeneffect]

I can see where cedar shavings might be an issue for chickens in an enclosed space, but we've never had a problem with chickens roosting on cedar trees.

A lot of people will even say the cedar helps to keep mites away.

Here's a blog post on one of our rotating chicken pastures that has had a cedar tree for a while now.

http://www.avianaquamiser.com/posts/One-year-old_forest_pasture/

 

[waldeneffect]

Our chickens often roost on a fallen cedar tree in one of their rotating pastures and we've never had any problems.

Here's a blog post on that particular pasture after one year.

http://www.avianaquamiser.com/posts/One-year-old_forest_pasture/