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SkyAJK said:
I am not having a good day so far.
It took me 3 hours to trim the leafy branches to cover my muddy chicken runs and now I just by chance saw an article saying green cestrum plant is poisonous to animals and human.

I trimmed my Cestrum Nocturnum plant and threw them in my chicken runs. I read online some say poisonous and some say no. I just don't want to risk it so off to remove those branches. Grrrrr

Green Cestrum and Cestrum Nocturnum are similar, just different flowering colour.
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Is it toxic for them to walk on it or only if they eat it?
 
BigBlueHen53 said:
Is it toxic for them to walk on it or only if they eat it?
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My current flock eats anything and I saw one of the hens was trying to eat the green leaf of this plant, but the green leaf did not detached when she pecked at it, she walked off. I don't want any of my flock try it.
My current flock eats tomatoes leaf, shelly beans leaf, cardboard, sugarcane mulch, pine bark to name a few. I just don't get it, but here they are eating it.
 
Generally, at least IME, chickens will not eat toxic plants. I'm convinced they won't because if they did, they would be extinct already. I don't know where you are, but here in Missouri we have all kinds of things that are toxic to them: daffodils, lilies, iris, tulips, and something called poke to name a few. We have hundreds of these all over our property. And the chickens don't touch them. So maybe your chickens won't eat this plant you're worried about either.
 
BigBlueHen53 said:
Generally, at least IME, chickens will not eat toxic plants. I'm convinced they won't because if they did, they would be extinct already.
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When I brought my first guinea keets home in 2021, I hid all of my potted avocado and Monstera plants due to presumed toxicity.
Eventually that became untenable, so after reintroducing various plants to their environment I have found my guineas prefer things that are not on the poison lists (e.g. grasses and kale/chard).
 
BigBlueHen53 said:
Generally, at least IME, chickens will not eat toxic plants. I'm convinced they won't because if they did, they would be extinct already. I don't know where you are, but here in Missouri we have all kinds of things that are toxic to them: daffodils, lilies, iris, tulips, and something called poke to name a few. We have hundreds of these all over our property. And the chickens don't touch them. So maybe your chickens won't eat this plant you're worried about either.
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My current flock eat just about anything, it worried me all the times. They ate all my turmeric and ginger leaf, they also eat tomatoes leaf whenever they come near it. I read that tomatoes leaf are toxic to chickens. I give them plenty of green leafy and they do not eat kales, imagine that. I hope they don't eat all thing toxic.
 

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