What can my Chickens NOT EAT?

[dainerra]

chickens can't taste spicy. If you have rodents eating your feed, adding cayenne pepper to the food is a recommended way to discourage them.

Green potato peelings have chlorophyll from being exposed to light. However, light exposure can also cause them to form solanine. Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family. It would take several pounds of green potatoes to be hazardous to an adult, but I don't know about chickens

 

[kimisfishing]

Thanks, I dont have pests yet, but give them time to find the chickens. We have mouse droppings in the shed but the chicken pen is not close to it. They will find it.

This chicken thing is easy to get wild about

 

[hennyannie]

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Just joking about the pepper, its not on the list. Mine just dont seem to care for it.I am thinking kitchen scrap wise the potatoe skin and maybe avacados are about all you have to worry about.

 

[Fowl97]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart look at this the bottom has poisonous things and there is a like to poisonous plants

 

[autumnprairie]

my friends RIR love cayenne peppers,
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[autumnprairie]

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Hello to Kimisfishing and Gerry2011 I am in Biscoe Arkansas and goats are almost addicting to have as chickens they are as crazy and funny as my chickens are but a lot more picky but they regularly raid the pear tree which by the way my chickens love just as much.

I keep hoping my husband will say yes to more chickens and a few more goats.

 

[Illia]

Chickens should stay away from any Nightshade (pepper, tomato, tomatillo, potato, eggplant, ground cherry, litchi tomato, pepino melon, datura, etc) Or at least any green of it, including foliage, green of potatoes (it isn't the Chlorophyll you should be worried about!

) the berries of potato plants, and the berries and flowers of more dangerous species such as Belladonna and Datura, naturally.

They should also stay away from other obvious dangerous plants like Foxglove, Daffodils, and many other bulbs. . .

 

[Ema]

What Ilia Said X2


nightshade = bad for chickens

Also chickens can't taste spicy, I add cayenne pepper to my girls food throughout winter they love it. keeps their body temps a bit warmer through the colder temps

 

[cravenchx]

Tomatoes? Are you kidding me?
My girls would hate me if I took their
tomatoes away!

 

[Judy]

Mine also adore tomatoes. Maybe it's a matter of quantity.

Pretty much, if you can eat it, they can. If you give them dried peas or beans, for example, they need to be cooked, just as they do for you.

As for plants -- we just bush hogged our chicken yard because they won't touch the dog fennel or a couple of other weeds in there. There's a purple berry in our woods I have been told is poisonous for us and they won't touch them, either. I think they pretty much know what to eat, though I've read of their eating spoiled food and getting sick.