Poisonous plants

[Flummery]

When I got my first cockatiel yonks ago I was told not to give him parsley. Some sort of enzyme in it, the bloke reckoned.

[frias]

That's quite a list and I know my girls have eaten several of the items on it. Stripped my hanging baskets of lobelia last summer when I left them low down for watering.
Funny about the parsley, we have a small piece of land in Spain and the only thing the rabbits don't eat is the parsley.

[di]

Well I know our previous lottie neighbours chooks used to eat elderberries....they had a tree in the run & could often be seen up it nibbling away....but as we'll poss be putting our chooks there come spring...I'm pleased Andi's chopped it down!!!....the only danger I'd seen previous to your post was that his chooks used it as not only a source of food,but also a pretty good escape route!!...but anyway it's gone now!
Some of the stuff on the list I've never even heard of!!...what is this hemp you speak of??

[Two_Sheds]

My parrot loves hemp seeds ... doesn't chill him out though

[lynda66]

My parrot loves hemp seeds ... doesn't chill him out though

thats cos hemp seeds are rubbish and don't contain the thc that decent seeds (i mean the norty and soon to be illegal to own and not just grow seeds) have ........ shuts up now cos she's sounding far too knowledgeable

[lynda66]

Well I know our previous lottie neighbours chooks used to eat elderberries....they had a tree in the run & could often be seen up it nibbling away....

actually i think the leaves are poisinous, but the fruit are ok, cos we have loads of elderberry trees at the ends of our gardens and the birds love em..... and i've never spotted piles of dead birds under the trees

[Snadger]

actually i think the leaves are poisinous, but the fruit are ok, cos we have loads of elderberry trees at the ends of our gardens and the birds love em..... and i've never spotted piles of dead birds under the trees

A book I read recently said that uncooked elderberries ARE mildly toxic to humans!

[Snadger]

My parrot loves hemp seeds ... doesn't chill him out though

Fish like em as well!

[HayleyB]

Privet is definitely poisonous to horses so I would assume to other animals. Beans dried contain a toxin that is killed by overnight soaking and cooking, which applies to all pulses. Ragwort is poisonous to humans as well as animals it affects the liver and is irreversable - common cause of animal deaths. Foxgloves, yew (including the bark) and lupins are common killers. And of course tomato, potato, pepper and aubergine plants.