Chickens dying from eating poisonous things

[WhetzelMomma]

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I think you're pretty safe to assume that if you could eat it, they could eat it. So the consensus here seems to be that things that are poisonous (tomato and avocado specifically) Is actually the parts we don't eat. Like the tomato plant, and the skin/pit of the avocado. The fruits of both plants have been fed without ill effects. Diversity has also been mentioned. Be sure you keep up the variety, and your chances of feeding with no ill effects are pretty good.

 

[flgardengirl]

My grandmother threw her chickens potato peels and every other kind of scrap. She didn't have a toxic list and none died from it. There was also a huge apple tree and the chickens ate the apples and seeds (supposedly toxic).

 

[myfivegirls]

I've been feeding my chickens the tomato seeds, skins and some over-ripe toms from our garden and after we've cut them up for sauce. In fact, the chickens were flying over the garden fence and eating the tomatoes off the plants in the garden. So, I think it's the plant, that's the problem, not the actual fruit. I know someone else who has chickens, and he feeds his chickens tomatoes, too. Mine eat them like they're candy.
So far, I haven't lost any of my chickens, and that includes my pullets, which started eating kitchen scraps on a weekly basis at 2 1/2 - 3 months old.

 

[GAchick]

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The teflon-coated pan thing is if it's overheated, and smokes, it can give off toxic fumes...

 

[pookiegoldman]

I once threw to the chickens a whole pound of red kidney beans which had been only slightly cooked. They ate most of it, with no fatalities.

 

[TheWaddler]

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It rained last night and this morning I let my EE out of her quarantine box into her own little run. She promptly ran over to the little puffs of mold growing in a patch and started eating them up. Just got home from work and she seems fine to me. I also feed my chickens little yellow tomatoes that they fight over.

 

[Organics North]

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Peas are not an issue. You can feed peas raw. Mine eat a healthy dose of field peas each day. Peas are great feed!

Beans on the other hand need to be cooked or processed such as Soy Beans are. Beans and peas are not the same thing....

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[NYREDS]

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How long do you think it takes them to die after eating Avocado? I put 3 over ripe Avocados in with every thing else when I cleaned out the fridge last Saturday & gave it all to the chickens. So far everybody seems to be OK but I want to know when I should start digging a hole.

No idea, it was just an observation I made. The 3 dead grackles were found over the course of several months. The flesh of the fruit isn't good for them birds, but it shouldn't kill them. The skin and the pit on the otherhand will caue cardiac distress and eventual heart failure for birds.

I was trying to be facetious but apparently I missed. Your 2 post seem not support each other. The first makes it sound like the death of the birds coincided with the fruiting of the tree. The second post says the dead birds were found over a period of several months. I sometimes find dead birds in my yard but I don't have an Avocado tree.
Your first post says you were "pretty sure" they had fed off the fruit that had fallen to the ground. What made you so sure?
The first post says Avocado is poisonous, the second says it isn't good for birds. Which is it? Cheeseburgers may not be good for me but that doesn't make them poisonous [thank goodness].
Your first post says you 'know for a fact" Avocados are poisonous to all birds. Your second post says It isn't good for them but it shouldn't kill them. Most confusing.
As to the pits being poisonous to chickens I've asked on other posts, how would a chicken go about eating an Avocado pit?
Bottom line-Avocados aren't poisonous to birds. As someone else here said, if you can eat it they can eat it.
I wish people wouldn't state absolute facts when they don't really know what they're talking about.

 

[Tala]

My chickens eat stuff that I'm afraid to eat, and nobody has died. My mom recently cleaned out her basement storage of home-canned goods, some of which are 10-11 years old. The ones with intact seals I'm feeding to the birds, and none of them have died. The chickens eat mushy stuff from the compost without dying, even though I've heard it can be bad from mold, I kept them out of it for a while and one time they got in.....nobody died.

My hens somehow broke into my fly bait station and the bait and dead flies disappeared - presumably eaten by the birds, and none of them died! I was pretty surprised about that! They're tougher than they seem!

When they free range they decide what to eat and what not to eat, and they haven't made any deadly mistakes yet. I really don't worry a whole lot beyond checking their feedstuff for mold.

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

Tomatoes? I don't think I've heard that before...I feed my birds left-over salad when it is available and tomatoes are usually a good part of it. Turken happens to go for them first, she loves them. Haven't had any death-by-food. The Turken is in great shape, actually. And what about sauce? I hear that people give their birds pasta with tomato sauce.