Feeding grapes to your chickens

[allquackedup]

Is it safe for chickens and ducks to eat grapes?

 

[thndrdancr]

Mine love grapes, but they love them so much that they WILL swallow them whole in a feeding frenzy, or to keep the others from getting them, so they can be a choking hazard.

I always cut my grapes up, as I do have a piggy hen named Lily that actually did choke and would have actually choked to death on it had I not been there to smack her and get it down. That is why I always cut mine, cuz of my silly Lily. Before that, never realized a bird COULD choke.

 

[joedie]

Grapes are also one my girls favorites and I too cut them in half.

 

[WilczenskiFarm]

Yup! I cut mine as well. I also cut grape tomatoes up ... just seems yummier that way!

 

[edselpdx]

My ladies' fave treat. I don't cut, but there's a grapevine that drops ripe grapes into the yard all fall, so they seem to know to pierce them before swallowing.

 

[joletabey]

My Dellies love them - I have only tried green seedless grapes and I quarter them, as mine are only 12 weeks old.

 

[mboreham1]

i take the red grapes off my FIL's vine so they wouldn't attract rats, the only thing i can poss think is that if the grapes are on the vine too long they can ferment, so you could end up with a drunk flock!

 

[felidaet]

A relative gave me a big bucket of small grapes last summer. The chickens acted like it was the greatest treat they ever had. The grapes were very small and so I did not cut them in half.

 

[chookchick]

Feeding grapes is hysterical! (One at a time) There is nothing like a game of "chicken grape rugby". Puts the kids in stitches every time.

 

[gritsar]

I used to cut grapes up before feeding them to the chickens, then I saw a few of them swallow whole figs and stopped cutting up the grapes.