Free ranging chickens/ducks & yard fertilizer

[un-named]

will they eat the white pellets and get sick? I have the menards lawn food, 30-0-3 (I think) that I would like to put on the yard...

 

[flowergirl60]

I wouldn't put any fertilizer in my yard where my chickens are.

 

[heatherindeskies]

not sure.....

 

[un-named]

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k....thanks you two!

 

[caspernc]

yeah not so sure.

 

[aggie9296]

It is mostly nitrogen (the 30) and is probably not good for them. I suspect they will eat it since they pick up small rocks and grains of sand and such. Would be safer (and cheaper) to compost their chicken poo and use it as a fertilizer.

 

[peterlund]

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They are not really smart enough to distinguish between what id good or bad for them to eat... Treat them like 2 year olds... Don't put anything that might harm them in reach.

 

[Oregon Blues]

Pen them up. Put your fertilizer on the lawn and water it in. Don't let the chickens out again until the pellets have dissolved and soaked in.