Chicken Garden info plz..

[catjac1975]

I do not remember where I read it-a chicken site though. Maybe BYC. I have always fed them the vines, and probably will continue to do so-none dead yet. I have always felt animals would not eat poisonous things. My cats have never touched a poinsettia . And what experts call poison usually will just make them throw up. But, this is not an expert opinion.

 

[digitS']

I once lost a hen the evening after the flock found the ... rhubarb plants.

There could have been another explanation for her death but none that I could think of. I didn't realize they were eating the rhubarb leaves, until later. I was with her during her final hour, or so. She appeared to be her usual self that morning.

The other hens seemed fine, however.

Steve

 

[Tara]

ok im just no grasping giving them ur left overs.. we had rabbit and regular potato for supper.do i just throw them the rabbit left overs to them bones and all? i dont let my ladies have regular potatoes. i read it had a toxin in it that if builds up can kill them. i like to cook with garlic and onion too.. is it true what we feed them their eggs will taste like?? I heard this about goats milk too..

 

[Tara]

my ladies wont eat i noticed what isnt good for them and or what is toxic to them..

 

[Tara]

I once lost a hen the evening after the flock found the ... rhubarb plants.

There could have been another explanation for her death but none that I could think of. I didn't realize they were eating the rhubarb leaves, until later. I was with her during her final hour, or so. She appeared to be her usual self that morning.

The other hens seemed fine, however.

Steve

im sorry steve..

 

[Jared77]

Of I was planting for chickens and/or rabbits I'd be planting high production foods. Foods that give a lot of volume per plant. Things like cherry tomatoes, pole beans, zucchini, summer squashes, and pickling cukes.

These are all things that are easy to grow and give you a long season to harvest from.

Plus there are a lot of varieties of these things so finding seeds would be easy.

You could also plant some foods that will keep long after the garden isn't producing. Maybe some winter squash varieties like acorn or Hubbard or some other varieties with good shelf life.

Hope this helps

 

[catjac1975]

I give my chickens all cooking waste and they eat what they like the rest just decomposes.

 

[AMKuska]

My silkies live in a pen that I specifically use for composting. They are my composting chickens. I toss everything in from the kitchen--including scrapings from the dishes, egg shells, potato peelings and what not. They scratch through it and eat what they like. None of them have died from it, and in fact their lifespan has far outmatched my other chickens who mainly get pellets and occasional pasture.

 

[so lucky]

I give my chickens all kinds of kitchen scraps, too. They get all the left over meat, chicken bones and skin, and meat fat but not a whole lot at once. A small amount of bread scraps but not much. Vegetable scraps, of course. Oh, they love left over spaghetti.

 

[Tara]

I give my chickens all kinds of kitchen scraps, too. They get all the left over meat, chicken bones and skin, and meat fat but not a whole lot at once. A small amount of bread scraps but not much. Vegetable scraps, of course. Oh, they love left over spaghetti.

thanxs.. idk if i could even give them chicken meat and bones was a big question i had.. heres another silly question. Can they choke on a bone?