are peaches safe for chickens to eat?

[mrsengeseth]

both ripe and under ripe...neighbor has a tree and it's dropping peaches. She wanted to know if my chickens would tke the under ripe ones too (they are denting her car when they drop so she wants to strip the tree in that area of peaches).

 

[mrsengeseth]

anyone know?

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Absolutely! Chickens can eat just about anything. Mine love the unripe pears on my trees right now too!!!

 

[jessupfamily]

We've always given our chickens peaches. And we had a peach tree once, and they ate anything that came off of it! (Ripe or not!) We've never had trouble from any of them.

 

[mrsengeseth]

Fantastic!! Thanks so much! She'll be happy we have found a solution to the peach problem!!

 

[ChooksinIowa]

Just be careful with the peach pits. If any of the peaches have split pits inside them, such that the chickens can get at the kernels inside the pits, the kernels can be poisonous because they have cyanide type compounds in them. I know most peaches don't have split pits inside, but some varieties are more prone to that than others.

This is a handy link for information on plants/fruits that can be poisonous to chickens.
http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html

(you can look under P for peaches to see the information that I just said up there!)

 

[wegotchickens]

We have an ornamental peach tree that actually set fruit this year. So much fruit it's breaking it's branches

We were not expecting this but the chickens have LOVED it.
Now I'm wondering, if they can eat the peaches, can I make peach butter with them????They're very small peaches.

 

[mgibbzzz]

You can make "butter" out of any fruit.


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