Grits&Eggs
Songster
this sounds like a great idea, did you grow from seed? did you have to cover them or pot them first?trampled the vines a little bit, they were able to eat the tomatoes as they became ripe
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this sounds like a great idea, did you grow from seed? did you have to cover them or pot them first?trampled the vines a little bit, they were able to eat the tomatoes as they became ripe
Tomatoes aren't a good idea. It's a member of The nightshade family and those are poisonous to chickens. If they eat many tomatoes they will stop laying or have reduced laying.this sounds like a great idea, did you grow from seed? did you have to cover them or pot them first?
The fruit of the tomato plant are not toxic to chickens. Only the leaves.Tomatoes aren't a good idea. It's a member of The nightshade family and those are poisonous to chickens. If they eat many tomatoes they will stop laying or have reduced laying.
Everything I've ever read says the chemical is in all of the plant & it's fruit. Potatoes have it too.The fruit of the tomato plant are not toxic to chickens. Only the leaves.
Everything I've ever read says the chemical is in all of the plant & it's fruit. Potatoes have it too.
My own experience was cleaning the garden out and letting them have at the excess of tomatoes and for weeks after i noticed way fewer eggs. It wasn't due to molt or fewer hrs of light. I still give them some tomatoes but very limited amounts.
Here is the Texas lilac bush.
I started with this size from seeds i planted 2 years ago.
here they are now.
this is what it looks like under them.
here's the pretty smelling blooms that make tons of seed that the birds just love and they are easy to grow from seeds also.
I have had chickens roost in them ,dust bathe around them ,they have been flooded with water from the chicken water, the 100 plus degree temps here does not kill them, and they grow alone or close to other lilac bushes and they still grow with no problems at all.
I planed this one last year, i though sure the young chickens all but killed it trying to roost in it but this spring it put out new growth and is doing great.