"ex WGS Hamm" wrote in message
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"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Birds can more or less safely eat yew berries - there was a huge tree in
our hen pen and despite the toxicity it never seemed to bother them.

Try eating them yourself, you will soon find out that what one species
can
safely eat, isn't necessarily safe for another species.



I hope that advice wasn't intended to be taken literally - although the
flesh of the yew berry is not toxic, the seeds are very toxic indeed. If one
were lucky, the seeds would pass through the system without being ingested,
but one would have to be crazy to try it, IMO.