RoundUp (Glyphosate) toxicity

[kathnrich]

We too also lost a hen after using Roundup. Maybe! But it took sevaral weeks. Could have been old age. Not sure to be honest, but, the advice from this thread ceratinly is prudent and safer to wait several days after spraying to let them free roam.
Things get funny in our heads when the unexpected happens and blame is so easy to thow around now-o-days. The main message here I guess is just wait a small period of time to let the hens out again.
Rich. D.

 

[Teabone]

Have used Roundup for many years for weed control and have never seen any indication that it is harmful to anything other than some weeds, there are a lot of green things it does not harm besides animals.

 

[GlobalExpat]

Roundup is a very safe chemical. It has little or no toxic effect on warm blooded animals. It actually inhibits a crucial amino acid that plants need to live. Animals have no such enzyme. Roundup is very quickly inactivated when exposed to soil, so it's very doubtful that your birds died from exposure to Glyphosate.

I know that there are many who will refute this, but Roundup has replaced many of the older, and much more toxic chemicals that we used to use on crops. Atrazine, Eradicane, Treflan, Dicamba, Sencor, and many others were terribly toxic, and many of them had very long half-lives. Roundup is relatively non-toxic, and has very little persistence.

I would search for another reason that your hens died. Possibly some berries or other plant material that was toxic to them? Or, could they have come upon an old battery or some paint or other chemicals in their scratching?

You're a ****ing moron. Take your chemical company, nonsensical, dishonest, propaganda bullshit elsewhere. Roundup is absolutely toxic, carcinogenic poison. **** off