Wild Grape VInes?

[chickiedoodle]

I have wild grape all over the place and was wondering if anyone knows if it is okay for the chickens to eat it? I can't seem to find anything one way or the other on any of the poison plant lists I have found.

 

[12 Acres]

I bet goats would love it!

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

i'm not totally sure what wild grapes are, but we have grape vines all across the back of our property, different kinds. i feed them to my chickens. But i either cut them or break them first, as i've heard a whole grape can impact a crop. But i have not had problems so far, other then all the kids fighting over them.

 

[Oblio13]

My chickens eat grape leaves all the time. You can eat them, too - the leaves are used for cooking and pickling, and the raw tendrils have a lemony flavor.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Oh wow, i never thought about using those grape leaves for cooking and eating. We have a ton of them in our yard. i may have to look up a pickling recipe.

 

[tvtaber]

My chickens will denude a grape vine of leaves and grapes in no time! They LOVE the concord grapes, which are pretty close to the wild grapes in texture and taste (IMHO). I would never think to break them up, if their crop can handle a lizard surely it can handle a grape!

 

[JennsPeeps]

My neighbors next door have a massive grape arbor. It's a rental and they don't touch anything. I've been watching the grapes carefully and plan to give as many as I can grab from the fenceline to my girls.

For 2 years in a row I've denuded their red currant bush in the front yard in the very early morning hours!

 

[chickiedoodle]

Well, goats are next on my wish list--don't anyone tell my hubby yet

--but none so far, so I will give the grape vines to the chickens. I like them overall, but they are invading some trees in the front yard and left to their own devices, they will kill trees. I have eaten pickled grape leaves before in some Mid-East food and they were yummy. Didn't know wild grape would work too...

 

[Reinbeau]

Mine munch on the wild grape vines all the time, they seem to love them!

 

[FarmerMack]

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My goats love the grape leaves when I've trimmed out the vines. In fact next to lilac bushes it seems to be one of their favorites


Farmer MacK

11 hens, 1 dawg, 2 cats, 3 adult goat, 2 kids (a buck and a doe still no cash), and um oh yeah wife is still here