Nandina shrub berries edible for chickens?
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Patty Lebbing
Dec 15, 2009, 2:00:14 PM12/15/09
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Greetings from Arkansas!
Always learning great things on this site; thank you for all who contribute!
Our chickens are not full free range; only days when I am home before
the sun goes down and can stay outside to guard against neighbor dogs.
When I let them out Sunday, I noticed a few were eating the Nandina
shrub red berries. Does anyone know if they are poisonous to chickens?
The info below looks like they aren't but......
http://www.gardensablaze.com/Shrubs/ShrubsNandina.htm says:
Nandina berries are listed as being poisonous in a lot of the written
documentation, and it has been proven to be harmful to pets -
particularly cats. However, little study has been done on humans, and I
could find no documentation on human poisonings from Nandina berries.
Even so, do watch the pets and the kids around this plant, because
ingesting it definitely will not help them. Birds do eat the seeds with
no ill effects, and as such, this plant is a good source of nutrition
for birds during the lean winter months.
Patty Lebbing
Fayetteville, Arkansas
9 hens, 1 rooster and one hermaphrodite hen/rooster maybe (doesn't have
spurs)
Always learning great things on this site; thank you for all who contribute!
Our chickens are not full free range; only days when I am home before
the sun goes down and can stay outside to guard against neighbor dogs.
When I let them out Sunday, I noticed a few were eating the Nandina
shrub red berries. Does anyone know if they are poisonous to chickens?
The info below looks like they aren't but......
http://www.gardensablaze.com/Shrubs/ShrubsNandina.htm says:
Nandina berries are listed as being poisonous in a lot of the written
documentation, and it has been proven to be harmful to pets -
particularly cats. However, little study has been done on humans, and I
could find no documentation on human poisonings from Nandina berries.
Even so, do watch the pets and the kids around this plant, because
ingesting it definitely will not help them. Birds do eat the seeds with
no ill effects, and as such, this plant is a good source of nutrition
for birds during the lean winter months.
Patty Lebbing
Fayetteville, Arkansas
9 hens, 1 rooster and one hermaphrodite hen/rooster maybe (doesn't have
spurs)
Jamie Johnson
Dec 15, 2009, 5:28:25 PM12/15/09
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The berries also contain alkaloids such as nantenine, which is used in
scientific research as an antidote to MDMA.[2][3] or E. Birds are not
affected by these toxins and will disperse the seeds through their
droppings.
2 rooster 10 hens
scientific research as an antidote to MDMA.[2][3] or E. Birds are not
affected by these toxins and will disperse the seeds through their
droppings.
2 rooster 10 hens
Patty Lebbing
Dec 16, 2009, 12:16:29 PM12/16/09
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Topic: Nandina shrub berries edible for chickens?
Jamie Johnson <wojo3...@yahoo.com> Dec 15 02:28PM -0800
The berries also contain alkaloids such as nantenine, which is used in
scientific research as an antidote to MDMA.[2][3] or E. Birds are not
affected by these toxins and will disperse the seeds through their
droppings.
2 rooster 10 hens
Thanks for taking the time to post, Jamie. So I should take it that
yes, I can feed our chickens the berries, which is great as we have a
lot of them! We had a really bad ice storm last January so the shrubs
are producing berries like crazy. I looked up nantenine and MDMA and
that was quite interesting reading :)
Patty Lebbing
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Jamie Johnson <wojo3...@yahoo.com> Dec 15 02:28PM -0800
The berries also contain alkaloids such as nantenine, which is used in
scientific research as an antidote to MDMA.[2][3] or E. Birds are not
affected by these toxins and will disperse the seeds through their
droppings.
2 rooster 10 hens
yes, I can feed our chickens the berries, which is great as we have a
lot of them! We had a really bad ice storm last January so the shrubs
are producing berries like crazy. I looked up nantenine and MDMA and
that was quite interesting reading :)
Patty Lebbing
Fayetteville, Arkansas
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