Collards and sweet potatoes

[Klwright1122]

Someone told me yesterday not to feed my chickens collards or sweet potatoes because it causes them to stop laying. Had anyone else ever heard of such a thing? My chickens don't get this very often --but I do usually give em most of my kitchen scraps which would include collard stems and sweet potato peelings ocassionally...

 

[7L Farm]

I feed some greens to my two flocks everyday. Greens have never stopped my flock from laying.This time of the year the chickens need extra greens. I don't feed mine potatoes but have heard they should be cooked. Then again I don't feed them to my flocks.

 

[kizanne]

I don't know about sweet potatoes but if collards stopped them from laying mine would never lay.

I grow a little patch of collards for them and they get collards all the time.

 

[Clay Mudd]

I don't know about sweet potatoes but if collards stopped them from laying mine would never lay.

I grow a little patch of collards for them and they get collards all the time.

+1. Seems like the more greens mine get, the better they lay.

 

[debid]

There are lots of these stories out there about various foods causing hens to cease laying. It's just a lot of nonsense.

 

[CluckyJay]

Collards, kales, turnips, goat poo, the chickens eat it all and lay just fine, lol.

 

[Chick named Lola]

I used to give my girls fresh kale every day....then I realized that was causing the runs in some of them. So I have scaled back on giving to them espec. in the spring/summer/fall...winter they will have it since there is no grass. Like anything...everything in moderation. To say it will affect their laying...pish posh I say!

 

[skunknchatter]

We eat lots of sweet potatoes at my house and all the leftovers go to the chicks. Never had a problem.

 

[galanie]

Mine love sweet potatoes, both raw and cooked. Never a problem. There's nothing in there that could possibly harm them.