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[wilkole]

Is it safe to give chickens tomatoes?

[kevtheplumber]

Mine demolish them, they cant get enough

[Gamebird]

My chickens love them.

 

Tomatoes contain carotene which helps to give the egg yolks that lovely deep orange-yellow colour.

[K-F-C]

As tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family it may be best to not give them too many... especially green ones or the plants themselves.

[dippy bird]

My girls love them! I buy them a bag of cherry toms from the local farmers market for £1 a bag! The stall holder isn't impressed when I tell him that I'm buying them for my chickens though

[Gelbel]

My girls eat the flesh and leave behind the skin then spit the pips out.

[sjp]

As tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family it may be best to not give them too many... especially green ones or the plants themselves.

my 5 haven't read that part of the chicken manual they ate all the black cherry when they were ripe then started on the garden peach (yellow one) liked them so much they didn't wait for them to ripen properly scoffed six in as many days now they've started on my apples the ones that aren't ready till late october and november I whouldn't mind so much if they ate the small ones but they go for the big ones they've got 5 or 6 on the go all ready

[Egluntyne]

My hens love them

[Cooks]

mine too

[jomaxsmith]

Try just throwing them one between the lot of them - the resulting 'chicken rugby' is hysterical as the one with the tomato can't risk putting it down to eat it or the others will catch her and take it.

 

Jo

[Saronne]

As tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family it may be best to not give them too many... especially green ones or the plants themselves.

 

 

Mine ate 3 of my plants earlier this year and lived to tell the tale

 

 

Saronne x

[Chucky Mama]

My fussy lot wont go near them they just squash them into the lawn.

[chick wiggle]

its only safe if you have enough to go round otherwise its a fight to the death

[Olly]

It's right that you shouldn't feed them tomato leaves. I discovered this AFTER I'd been pinching my tomato plants out and throwing the spare bits out of the greenhouse door ... as with rhubarb, and various other plants that are supposed to be poisonous, no ill-effects but I won't do it again.

 

I've had a fantastic crop of cherry tomatoes this year, but due to inadequate watering by my house-sitter quite a lot of split fruit and blossom-end rot. I give all the damaged or manky fruit to my girls, and they love them - as said above, the fun to be had from lobbing one cherry tomato in amongst several hens is unbeatable!

[lozboz]

mine love tomatoes to, it gives them something to chase around the garden as they try to peck through the skin, i give mine cherry tomatoes.

[C&T]

My fussy lot wont go near them they just squash them into the lawn.

 

Same here...

 

Silly things obviously don't realise what they are missing!