Certain foods toxic to chickens??

[Harlequin]

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i heard the same thing for with my goats, the fruit is fine but the plant is toxic. and our chickens ate more tomatoes this year than our whole family did, overrun with cherry tomatoes which are perfect size for them lol

 

[mamabigbird]

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Do you mean ramen noodles? Got lots of those. My kids went through a ramen noodle kick last year then decided they were horrible after 2 months eating nothing but ramen for lunch! I think it was some popular kid at school must have said something, and then, of course, nobody wanted to eat yukky old ramen anymore.
So I'll boil up the stale ramen minus the flavor packettes and toss them into the chicken yard and watch the fun!

YUP. Ramen noodles is the same thing. Bland squiggly noodles. I still like them, but the chickens are too fun to watch so I share.

 

[NHchicks]

And don't forget the berries, of course. I gave up on trying to keep my berry bushes for human food.

In the spring the wild grape vines were choking my berry plants, so I pulled a lot of those out. But the chickens love the wild grapes so much, maybe next year I'll let them grow along with the berries - the chickens end up eating most of them anyway.

They love eggplant too, except for the skin. But they don't eat lettuce, and I threw some mushrooms for them once and they didn't seem to like them either. Whatever they don't eat, the chipmunks cart off.

I don't throw much away.

Oh yeah - and corn on the cob, hooray. Rice, big hooray. Even lima beans - hooray.

 

[mamabigbird]

OH by the way, back to the original poster who was asking about toxic foods (we all kinda wandered off onto favorite treats), I know that avacado is poisonous to my cockatoo and cockatiel but I've heard that they are toxic to all birds. Avacadoes are so darn expensive and delicious that I can't imagine anyone giving them away to chickens.

 

[harrisville chicken]

The fight over who gets the tomatoes is probably the deadliest thing I've found with my hens. We've been throwing them tomatoes (full size and cherry) to them for the last two years, everyone is fine.

Side note, the little neighbor kids were picking their mom's tomatoes and throwing them over the fence to our chickens last year. That was a little risky* when their mom found out. *Risky for the kids, noy my hens.

 

[shareverwonder]

Yesterday I fed my girls and roo a mixture of deer sausage, mashed potatoes, shredded cheese and canned corn. They were so happy and jumping for joy. Nothing goes to wasted at our house.