Will eating ferns hurt chicks

[KennyCouch]

Nice, I have a few of those. I've been checking around to see if I'll need to separate my ferns and my chickens, any insight?

 

[nova022]

My ferns are not the asparagus ferns, they look more like a Boston fern and are very invasive. They have taken over a portion of my backyard and the free ranging chickens like to lay their eggs in them. They don't seem interested in eating them now that they are free ranging. They did eat them when they were small and had no ill effects.

 

[KennyCouch]

My ferns are not the asparagus ferns, they look more like a Boston fern and are very invasive. They have taken over a portion of my backyard and the free ranging chickens like to lay their eggs in them. They don't seem interested in eating them now that they are free ranging. They did eat them when they were small and had no ill effects.

Thanks! That's good to know.

 

[Lighteye]

I just fed my 2 month old chicks fern fern and later found out about this article. I will monitor if some of them will fall ill

 

[Ratchnick]

I guess it depends on the type, I eat fiddlehead fern as they come up, tasty.