JustSarahThanks
Songster
Not sure if it’s better to put this here vs. the coop/run design section. Also not sure whether this is an appeal for advice vs. a rant (maybe a little of column A and a little of column B?).
There is a massive, ancient Old Man’s Beard clematis vine that’s rooted on an unoccupied adjacent property to mine that has grown up and over some trees that hang over my chicken run. It drops millions upon millions of its little seeds all over my yard to the point where I essentially have a lawn of little clematis sprouts that I have to pluck out. At the moment it’s of course dropping its leaves and little seed heads all over including into my chicken run (which is covered in bird netting which keeps some of it out but more is able to sprinkle through). According to PoultryDVM’s toxic plant list all parts are toxic (although unclear if it’s fatally so). Of freaking course, my little feathered troublemakers see the leaves in their run and go wild for them and eat them as though they’re candy.
Lately when I go in in the morning to do the breakfast parade and let them out into their run, before I open the hatch to the run I do a quick survey and pick up any fallen clematis leaves I can find. The birds of course immediately find any I missed and snarf them down like they’re poor, starving and neglected birds (they’re really not!).
I guess I’m wondering if people have experienced clematis toxicity in their birds or dealt with similar issues. I was told when we moved here two years ago that the little plot of land in which the vine is rooted is owned by an apartment complex so I’m not even really sure who I could get ahold of about removing it.
Attached is a photo from inside the run looking directly up. All the green leaves there are clematis leaves.
There is a massive, ancient Old Man’s Beard clematis vine that’s rooted on an unoccupied adjacent property to mine that has grown up and over some trees that hang over my chicken run. It drops millions upon millions of its little seeds all over my yard to the point where I essentially have a lawn of little clematis sprouts that I have to pluck out. At the moment it’s of course dropping its leaves and little seed heads all over including into my chicken run (which is covered in bird netting which keeps some of it out but more is able to sprinkle through). According to PoultryDVM’s toxic plant list all parts are toxic (although unclear if it’s fatally so). Of freaking course, my little feathered troublemakers see the leaves in their run and go wild for them and eat them as though they’re candy.
Lately when I go in in the morning to do the breakfast parade and let them out into their run, before I open the hatch to the run I do a quick survey and pick up any fallen clematis leaves I can find. The birds of course immediately find any I missed and snarf them down like they’re poor, starving and neglected birds (they’re really not!).
I guess I’m wondering if people have experienced clematis toxicity in their birds or dealt with similar issues. I was told when we moved here two years ago that the little plot of land in which the vine is rooted is owned by an apartment complex so I’m not even really sure who I could get ahold of about removing it.
Attached is a photo from inside the run looking directly up. All the green leaves there are clematis leaves.
Can you trim back the portion on your property?
