Lawn mushrooms, safe for chickens?

[JPcrotinger]

Hello, I’ve got a flock of 5 birds, 3 chickens 2 ducks. I’ve got hundreds of tiny mushrooms popping up in my lawn and I’m worried it may not be safe for the chickens to eat them. Just curious to know what folks have seen or done with lawns riddled with mushrooms.

 

[JPcrotinger]

 

[Brooks_]

I wouldn't worry about it. Chickens (and ducks?) are good about not eating (at least not enough to cause issue) the bad stuff in the natural world. Fertilizer granules and stuff, not so much.

 

[Krys06]

I wouldn't worry about it. Chickens (and ducks?) are good about not eating (at least not enough to cause issue) the bad stuff in the natural world. Fertilizer granules and stuff, not so much.

Lol! I found out my chickens LOVE gardentone organic fertilizer granules the hard way this week (first time chicken owner). Thankfully nobody got sick but I dont think it should be a regular snack

 

[U_Stormcrow]

As Brooks_ said, given options - good thigns to eat, chickens will not generally eat things immediately harmful to them in quantites that will do real harm.

Now, if you had a bunch of hungry Cx in a chicken tractor, and planted said tractor on top of a patch of mushrooms? Reason for concern.

I have similar mushrooms right now in my pasture - the birds ignore them. That said, mushrooms are commonly misidentified even by experts when relying on picture alone. I don't suggest your mushrooms are my mushrooms, and I won't pretend to name them. Merely "similar".

/edit and I'm responding to a thread a year old...

 

[WingItRanch]

As Brooks_ said, given options - good thigns to eat, chickens will not generally eat things immediately harmful to them in quantites that will do real harm.

Now, if you had a bunch of hungry Cx in a chicken tractor, and planted said tractor on top of a patch of mushrooms? Reason for concern.

I have similar mushrooms right now in my pasture - the birds ignore them. That said, mushrooms are commonly misidentified even by experts when relying on picture alone. I don't suggest your mushrooms are my mushrooms, and I won't pretend to name them. Merely "similar".

/edit and I'm responding to a thread a year old...

Even though it's an old threat, it's still helpful! I caught my chickens eating a small white mushroom today and was concerned.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

If the chickens have enough to eat and they are not penned up all day and bored (or have something wrong in the head), then they know what they are supposed to eat and not supposed to eat. I have destroying angels, magic mushrooms, green-spored parasol and a multitude of other killer/sickener species growing in my yard and my chickens have no care in the world.

 

[Altairsky]

Never had problems with tiny garden mushrooms. Chickens eat them without problems.