Topic of the Week - Chickens and Fall Leaves

[BDutch]

just

a question, will chickens or geese eat the leaves? and are oak leaves safe to use?

Chickens do eat some eatable leaves, like young grapevine leaves. They don’t eat young oak sprouts to my knowledge bc if we dont mow the grass for a couple of weeks, there are always tiny oaks in our lawn.
They wont eat autumn leaves if they have acces to other food. Im not familiar with geese.

 

[someonewholovesgeese]

Chickens do eat some eatable leaves, like young grapevine leaves. They don’t eat young oak sprouts to my knowledge bc if we dont mow the grass for a couple of weeks, there are always tiny oaks in our lawn.
They wont eat autumn leaves if they have acces to other food. Im not familiar with geese.

ok thanks we have a HUGE oak tree (abt 12-14 meters wide probably more, abt 12 meters tall) and there are oak saplings everywhere right now, i counted at least 100 in like 6 square meters, most we have ever gotten