Tomato plants - should I worry?

[Linda in San Diego]

So far the Delightful Dozen have not found the tomatoe plants, but they have found my new pickling cucumber plant! I have to cover it each evening as the DDozen free ranged for the last few hours of daylight.

 

[chicksinthemachine]

I thought tomatoes were bad like potatoes and eggplant since they are nightshade plants, even the leaves shouldn't be eaten. I read it somewhere on here but darn if I can find the thread.

 

[JennsPeeps]

You're right that they're not good for the chickens, but try telling THEM that!

 

[chicksinthemachine]

 

[vickiemontana]

I actually fed my chickens sliced tomatoes. WRONG. Now they know what tomatoes are and just cleaned up in my garden.

 

[warren]

My pair get into the greenhouse and pull off the half-ripe tomatoes and drop them as they do not like the taste. I have to collect them up and keep them until they ripen to their taste.

 

[chickiebaby]

do everything to keep em out of the garden. But one time I eft some farmstand groceries out in the back yard forabout one and half minutes while I let the dog out - and darned if the chooks didnt dig the tomatoes right out of the grocery bags and decimate them all!

 

[JennsPeeps]

Yesterday DBF mde a sandwich & had left the tomato ends sitting on the counter.

(Hate it when he does that kind of stuff un)

Later in the afternoon I chopped on the tomatoes for the girls. Of course, they went wild. They also went wild, however, for my red toenails.

 

[Henrietta23]

Mine have also done damage to the roots of younger plants while scratching around. I now have my tomatoes in containers on the deck (only place I have enough sun). They are caged and then I have to put peep wire around the cages to keep the chickens from reaching in and pecking at the ripe tomatoes they can reach.

 

[NaturalChick]

There is a thread going about if it is safe to feed potato peels.

It is on the second page of "How to keep feed costs low." By Chickenmonk