Topic of the Week - Chickens and Fall Leaves

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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.
 
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
 
My girls love chopped-up leaves (chopped by the lawn mower) in their run for days when it's too rainy to get out in the yard.

One thought: don't use leaves that have been raked up from the street gutters along your road! They are generally contaminated with petrochemicals from vehicle traffic, and they really shouldn't be added to either your chicken runs or your compost heap. Instead, use leaves raked from yards that haven't been exposed to herbicides and other pesticides.

I often mooch them from my neighbors, who have bagged them up and put them by the curb for city pickup. I can return their leaf bags in five minutes, which seems to make them absurdly pleased! 🤪
I love this đź’•
 
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
Dried Oak leaves are the best. If I'm not mistaken, they are the toughest withstanding leaves, around here anyway. Bag em and Lot of em! Lucky Duck
 

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