How to support recovery from poison

[JanvierUK]

Hello all,

I moved house earlier this year, and I have been letting my chickens roam in their new garden. I discovered yesterday that one of the plants in my new place is toxic - ragwort. My chickens are still behaving fairly normally, but I know they have been eating some of the leaves. From today onwards I intend to keep them away from the plants until I have the opportunity to uproot and destroy all of it. Meanwhile, I would like to know what foods or medications would be good to give them to improve their immune system/support liver function etc to perhaps undo whatever damage this poisonous plant may have caused over the past few months.

Does anyone have experience of this?

 

[LaFleche]

Hello all,

I moved house earlier this year, and I have been letting my chickens roam in their new garden. I discovered yesterday that one of the plants in my new place is toxic - ragwort. My chickens are still behaving fairly normally, but I know they have been eating some of the leaves. From today onwards I intend to keep them away from the plants until I have the opportunity to uproot and destroy all of it. Meanwhile, I would like to know what foods or medications would be good to give them to improve their immune system/support liver function etc to perhaps undo whatever damage this poisonous plant may have caused over the past few months.

Does anyone have experience of this?

I once had some youngsters go wild on creeping buttercup and three days of milk thistle tea and capsules saved them when they were already droopy with yellowish faces.