Do chickens eat persimmons?

[begbfg]

Just curious. We do have muscadines, strawberries and blackberries growing wild everywhere on our farm. We also have mulberry and persimmon trees. Can and do chickens eat most fruits?

 

[carlsaSC]

This is my first year with chickens. Past experience with persimmons, however, is that both deer and my dogs love them after they drop. I had a dog that was a connoisseur, and would sniff each one to decide whether it was ready for consumption. Funniest story was we had the dogs on a trip and were toileting them at a rest stop. Their poop was just loaded with persimmon seeds. I thought, "What a strange way for a species to be propagated." Anyway, fig season will soon be over, and persimmons will be next on the chickens' menu, but only after they have dropped and the astringency has gone away.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

We have one persimmon tree and the chickens eat any that fall we don't get to first.

 

[Captain Carrot]

Have I confused my fruits, or is persimmons a citrus fruit?

If so it's a no, they shouldn't eat citrus

EDIT: Google search, We call it Sharron fruit...should be fine very healthy too.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Don't have any idea if they should eat them, but they do. Never had any problems with it so far... The tree has only been there about 20 - 30 years though. Might take time to kill 'em.

Our's is a wild persimmon too, don't know if that matters or not. They don't really go crazy over them, but they do eat them. Of course, I haven't found many things a chicken WON'T eat.

 

[luvanimals2]

I have a Fuyu Persimmon tree and when they fall my chickens LOVE eating them. A friend of mine has a Hachiya and my chickens eat that kind too.

Nancy

 

[gritsar]

Mine will eat em, if they're bored. They prefer to wait for the figs to ripen instead.

 

[begbfg]

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It's not a citrus fruit; it's more like a plum. I don't like them, myself. But if the ladies will eat them, I'll even pick some for them on occassion!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

EVERYTHING likes a ripe persimmon. Once in a while there will be a tree that does not lose its astringency even after the fruit ripens and nothing will eat it, but most do. Those fruit don't stay on the ground long around here.

There's nothing wrong with feeding citrus to poultry. Even if you cut it open for them they won't eat a terrible lot. It's only when there's nothing else to eat and they have to eat a lot of citrus that problems can develop.

 

[GeneJordan]

i Do!!!