Cooked Green Beans=Safe

[ChickensAreSweet]

What about raw sugar snap peas? They look just like green beans and we eat them raw out of the package from Costco.

I have even given them to the chickens a couple of times.

Would they also be bad for humans and chickens? (We eat both the peas and the pod raw.)

If this is too far off topic then please ignore with my apologies.

 

[Imp]

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There is precious little info about these. I googled and came up with nothing conclusive. One reference said sugar snap peas are the only pea and vine that is safe, but that wasn't a great site.
I would guess that the pods are not dangerous to human. Chickens

probably OK.

Back when I used to have a garden, I used to grow a lot of sugar snap peas. I ate most, but the chickens got any that weren't perfect. In the fall I would save the vines, chop them up and give them to the chickens. My assumption was that since you can buy pea shoots for cooking that the mature vines were just tough pea shoots. again

Imp

 

[BamaSilkies]

I think that the bean sprouts would be good. Dry the beans and use them for sprouting. cut the sprouts and give it to them or you can leave them just long enough for them to eat the sprout tops and then let them grow back out afew times. Double check to be sure. I know parrots love them. Should be good for chicken too.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Quote:
There is precious little info about these. I googled and came up with nothing conclusive. One reference said sugar snap peas are the only pea and vine that is safe, but that wasn't a great site.
I would guess that the pods are not dangerous to human. Chickens

probably OK.

Back when I used to have a garden, I used to grow a lot of sugar snap peas. I ate most, but the chickens got any that weren't perfect. In the fall I would save the vines, chop them up and give them to the chickens. My assumption was that since you can buy pea shoots for cooking that the mature vines were just tough pea shoots. again

Imp

Thanks Imp!

 

[twentynine]

Raw or cooked chunk'em over the fence.

I have had up to maybe 1/2 a bushel basket full of fresh picked snap beans (same thing) full of bugs, throwed them over the fence to the chickens. Not one slowed down, nevermind getting sick.

You got to remember it's a chicken, it will eat danged near anything.

 

[elmo]

Many plants have some degree of toxicity, but in order to harm a chicken the amount consumed would have to be high. The part of the green bean that has any toxicity is the seed (or the bean) inside the capsule. I would guess you'd need to feed a huge amount of whole green beans to approach dangerous levels, e.g., trying to make green beans the bulk of the chicken's diet. Of course, if you tried to feed a chicken mostly green beans as a diet, I suspect there would be other nutritional problems more pressing than toxicity from hemaglutin.

If you're worried at all about this, go ahead and cook the beans. The fresh food mix I offer our tiny parrots (who weigh no more than 50 grams) includes normally cooked green beans, and I've offered this for more than 2 years. They're all fine, healthy and thriving.

 

[mikeinri]

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There is precious little info about these. I googled and came up with nothing conclusive. One reference said sugar snap peas are the only pea and vine that is safe, but that wasn't a great site.
I would guess that the pods are not dangerous to human. Chickens

probably OK.

Back when I used to have a garden, I used to grow a lot of sugar snap peas. I ate most, but the chickens got any that weren't perfect. In the fall I would save the vines, chop them up and give them to the chickens. My assumption was that since you can buy pea shoots for cooking that the mature vines were just tough pea shoots. again

Imp

Thanks Imp.

I'm still looking too.

Maybe a college that does amimal education and research? URI near me does a lot but I found nothing about chickens.

Somebody must have thought of this before. I have found some sites about feeding them garden foods but not a lot. This is more of a green thing to do so it is not into the main stream yet. But I'm aslo after the bennefit it will have by cutting the cost of feed.

I have an animal stable showing up this week I have to get ready for so maybe next week