Smart Feeder - Light sensor values

[ValerieR]

My girls virtually ignore my lawn! That's because they are busy in the borders ... I have a really long border full of shrubs which WAS covered in bark chips! They seem determined to fling all the bark on the grass. Chook heaven.

[shoura]

I am amazed at how much they can fling stuff around! They seem to dig up all the stones in my garden and fling them around the "lawn" to the extent that the chap who cuts my grass has complained about the effect on the blades of his hover mower!

[pipistrelle]

I bought these http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/Netting+Trellis/Wilko-Wicker-Fence-93cmx42cm/invt/0169816?htxt=HLseM6aejP7v6OCmQat%2Fe%2FYtmFZqpCqIzklLkRoCF79qgiVen22ZyfWHq3udWr2ushmE5RTDMM0z%0AqWc5R%2BTQRw%3D%3D to push in the front of our raised flower bed as they were pretty determined to get the bark off and pull the membrane up It seems to be holding the bark on (looks nice too) but I'm hoping once the plants establish better in the beds it wont matter...otherwise their free-ranging area may be somewhat curtailed

 

As for lawn, they pluck the grass and have dug like mad in some bare patches where we were levelling the lawn and about to reseed... might have to fence of those areas too for now

[Plum]

I bought these http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/Netting+Trellis/Wilko-Wicker-Fence-93cmx42cm/invt/0169816?htxt=HLseM6aejP7v6OCmQat%2Fe%2FYtmFZqpCqIzklLkRoCF79qgiVen22ZyfWHq3udWr2ushmE5RTDMM0z%0AqWc5R%2BTQRw%3D%3D to push in the front of our raised flower bed as they were pretty determined to get the bark off and pull the membrane up It seems to be holding the bark on (looks nice too) but I'm hoping once the plants establish better in the beds it wont matter...otherwise their free-ranging area may be somewhat curtailed

 

As for lawn, they pluck the grass and have dug like mad in some bare patches where we were levelling the lawn and about to reseed... might have to fence of those areas too for now

 

That'll leave them the vegetable patch then

[ValerieR]

Those Wilkinsons things look nice but it would cost a fortune as my border is so very long - so I'll just let them get on with it!

They don't seem to bother eating the plants or shrubs.

Mind you, my girlies are only bantams! I hate to THINK what distance a big girl could fling things!

[Guest]

I am amazed at how much they can fling stuff around! They seem to dig up all the stones in my garden and fling them around the "lawn" to the extent that the chap who cuts my grass has complained about the effect on the blades of his hover mower!

 

my chap brings one of thoe garden blower things to power blast all the stones off the lawn before he cuts it

[sjp]

Those Wilkinsons things look nice but it would cost a fortune as my border is so very long - so I'll just let them get on with it!

They don't seem to bother eating the plants or shrubs.

Mind you, my girlies are only bantams! I hate to THINK what distance a big girl could fling things!

about 3 feet if it's soil, slate chipping or bark/wood chipping large bit of wood or stone a bit less

[ValerieR]

3 feet!!!!

 

Lucky you having somone to cut the grass Poet! It costs £70 to get mine cut just at the front of the house never mind the back so I have to do it myself....

[Guest]

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Lucky you having somone to cut the grass Poet! It costs £70 to get mine cut just at the front of the house never mind the back so I have to do it myself....

 

it costs us £11 a fortnight for the front and back, we only have a small garden

[foreveryoung]

my girls got into my veggie patch a while back now, and turned it from the lovely, lush, full veggie patch to a squashed wasteland with the odd crushed up leaves with in minuets.... i could have skewed the lot of them that day.....