Chickens and toads

[Fortune]

The other day my daughter and I were having a discussion about our chickens and she brought up the question “what if the chickens eat a toad, aren’t they poisonous” which got me thinking if I should be keeping the chickens away from toads. We have a pond on our homestead and live in an area with rivers and marshes so we have a ton of frogs and toads on our property. To my understanding and research in our area we only have the American toad. Our chickens will go after anything that moves. Are these ok for our chickens to eat or should I try to keep the chickens away from the toads somehow.

I'm told if you're in FL you have cane toads due to the canals, wetlands, and mangrove forests....they love mangrove stands behind my property. I started humanely killing but now use a pitch fork. I lost my dog to one and they kill native species so all bets are off for me.

 

[Fortune]

Chickens are very smart and they won't eat things that are poisonous to them... Usually

The larger the toad the more poison that they have so they may eat smaller ones, which will have no affect on them.

They'll be fine living alongside the toads.

We've had a toad that has lived with our chickens for over a year now and he is bigger than my hand. They don't bug him at all. He's basically our outdoor pet now

https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/what-s-the-difference-frog-vs-toad