Do chickens eat persimmons?

[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.