Smudge Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Hi I was looking through a Haynes chicken manual that someone bought me as a gift and I noticed that it listed potato foliage as poisonous to chickens. I can't find any reference to this in the Omlet list of poisonous plants so I'm wondering if it's correct? One of my girls has been a bit under the weather the last 2 or 3 days, so I started a course of Flubenvet in case it's worms, but I'm now wondering if it could be the potato leaves that they've had a real go at through the netting around the veggie patch. What would be the symptoms of plant poisoning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 all the books say that they are but my girls have been helping themselves to them since spring so much so that a few of my potato plants have only bare stalks they also strip my rubarb right to the ground with no signs of ill health I don't give them potatoes or tomato leaves they help themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongladosh Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Mine are obsessed with eating it, every year now we end up with threadbare potatoes... If they eat too much, they get the squits mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Mine broke in and took the tops of all of my potatoes and lived to tell the tale. Sadly the potatoes didn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Same here last year... I have given up on growing taters, what with the chickens and blight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudge Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Thanks for the confirmation. It does sound like she may have been over-indulging in the potato leaves then, and that's what's caused her to feel a bit peaky. I'll carry on with the Flubenvet for the seven days anyway and as they'll have to stay in the run it will keep her away from the potato leaves as well, so hopefully all round she'll improve. Maybe I can try and tie the potato foliage back and keep it away from the netting, then she'll have to fly in to get at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
