[CHICKENS-101] Re: Cabbage toxic to chickens??

 

I can tell you that chickens ARE NOT harmed by eating cabbage, they love it and thrive on it. I had to eat my cabbage by proxy last summer.

mike

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, PiranhaFem@... wrote:
>
> I was noodling around on the internet, trying to identify the weed growing
> all over my property: Cheeseweed, or little mallow. I was wondering if the
> chickens can eat it safely, and read that it can cause egg whites to go
> pink, and can "reduce egg quality". Not deadly, but apparently not very good
> for them, either.
>
> While perusing a site that listed plants toxic to chickens, I noticed that
> one of the plants listed is cabbage! I have been throwing wild mustard
> weeds to my chickens as I pull them up, and wild mustard is in the same
> family, the brassicas. It is also listed as toxic. They don't seem sick from
> it... they love to eat it... what is this all about? Just a little while
> ago some folks here talked about hanging up cabbages in the winter time for
> the chickens to peck at. Should I really stop feeding leftover cabbage, and
> wild mustard greens, to my chickens?
>
> Maureen and the girls at the
> Rowdy Girls Ranch
> Tucson, AZ
>

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