Will chickens eat leaves?

[Iluveggers]

I add dried leaves in the winter and muddy spring once a week (bagged & stored in the shed). I think it is their favorite day of the week! Keeps the run dry and the girls love it. They are completely broken down in a day or two. Make great compost!

 

[Saraschickens]

My chickens keep eating the leaves off my plum, plout and nectarine tree. I've been worried that it's bad for them, so I've been raking them up daily. But I feel like I should be leaving them. Can I leave them (if they're eating them)? It's fall, and they're falling every day, so I was worried about the comments I've been reading about wilting leaves & leaves touched by a frost in reference to those types of trees. Any insight would be so wonderful! Thank you!

 

[Red Mangrove]

My chickens keep eating the leaves off my plum, plout and nectarine tree. I've been worried that it's bad for them, so I've been raking them up daily. But I feel like I should be leaving them. Can I leave them (if they're eating them)? It's fall, and they're falling every day, so I was worried about the comment I hear about wilting leaves & leaves touched by a frost. Any insight would be so wonderful! Thank you!

In general a healthy chicken will understand naturally what it can eat or not. I have a huge pokeweed in my garden that my chickens have stripped clean, despite supposedly being poisonous. To this day I've never seen any plant harm any chicken

 

[Saraschickens]

In general a healthy chicken will understand naturally what it can eat or not. I have a huge pokeweed in my garden that my chickens have stripped clean, despite supposedly being poisonous. To this day I've never seen any plant harm any chicken

Thank you! I really appreciate the insight and quick response! This is my first time being on backyardchickens as a member! Not just a Google search passer by, lol!
I know it sounds crazy, but where I used to live the chickens would get up under an oleander and eat the leaves and flowers! No one ever got sick or died! Which blew my mind!