Farmer Buddy

[shelabobby]

I felt like this story belongs in this thread. We have 2 runs in our yard, one for the hens and one for the Rooster Lord Kluck (aka Buddy).

Buddy always has vegetation growing in his run and I usually pluck it but with all the rain we have had lately it grew up quickly.

Today I was siting and feeding him some apple when I noticed that one of the plants looked really familiar. It was a tomato plant! I feed them cherry tomatoes as a snack and I guess he decided to cultivate some of his snack.

My dad, the gardener of the house, inspected his run and 16 of the "weeds" were thriving tomato plants. No wonder he wasn't gobbling them up like any blade of grass that comes near his run.

Anyway now he will be known as Buddy the farmer growing his own tomato snacks

 

[cavemanrich]

Just in case you were not aware,, tomato plant,,(not the fruit) is in the nightshade family. Same a potato.
These greens are usually avoided by chickens, but not good if they do decide to eat.
The ripe fruit is a choice of many chickens.
Beautiful Rooster. is he a RIR??

 

[shelabobby]

Just in case you were not aware,, tomato plant,,(not the fruit) is in the nightshade family. Same a potato.
These greens are usually avoided by chickens, but not good if they do decide to eat.
The ripe fruit is a choice of many chickens.
Beautiful Rooster. is he a RIR??

He is a RIR! He was an accidental rooster from TS and is such a sweet boy (to me ).

 

[cavemanrich]

He is a RIR! He was an accidental rooster from TS and is such a sweet boy (to me ).

Just for fun,,,,,,,,,,
I was considered accidental,,, and look how SWEET I turned out to be.
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And a slight addition to my previous post.
In my backyard there are multiple plants that are toxic to chickens. Daylilies, Yew tree, deadly nightshade, Rhubarb, and a few more that I may have missed. Oh yes,, my container grown tomato plants.
My chickens do avoid those with their own instinct. Not sure how, but they are smarter than we want to credit them.
BTW, rhubarb,, only the leaf portion.
Someone once corrected me that Daylilies, are not toxic. Other reading info stated differently. Regardless,,, my chickens do scratch among the plants, but do not peck the leave themselves.
I have responded to many post in the past regarding chickens eating poisonous vegetation.
It usually is a situation where chickens are in a barren run, HUNGRY, and the only thing green is some toxic plant growing thru the enclosure fence.