![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe Kelli has a species of buttercup that is more tasty to chickens than mine. ![]() This made it easier to remove the buttercup that was there.but it very quickly came back! When I put my chickens in an area with buttercup, they ate most everything else, and turned up the soil. Perhaps the calcium they poop out has contributed to making it more alkaline over the years? I've noticed that I have more plantain in my duck yard than anywhere else, and no buttercup now (there used to be a lot), so the calcium/alkalinity might be helping. In fact, there's a lot of buttercup most everywhere on my property. They've eaten all the dandelion plants by my house, but there's still a lot of buttercup. To get rid of buttercups in your pasture or hayfield is a two step process spray to kill the existing buttercups and improve the conditions that favor grass production. One plant can spread over a 40 square foot area in a year. They'd far prefer dandelion or grass or other weeds. Creeping buttercup’s competitive growth crowds out other plants, especially in wet soils. My ducks and geese and chickens do eat buttercup.but they don't love it. We had good success at dealing to buttercup with something called Harmony (nice name for a nasty chemical Im sure), and addition of lime. Of the 2,252 species in the family and some 600 buttercups in the genus perhaps a dozen and a half squeak into the edible realm. On Green Deans', Eat the Weeds site, he mentions that some buttercups are more toxic than others ( ). I think it might depend on the variety of buttercup, too. Kelli Boggs wrote:I actually have been putting chickens on the less dense areas but I was under the impression that buttercups are mildly toxic to animals. ![]()
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