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Who said chickens and gardens don't mix (with pix)

By Chortle Chook, in Chickens, Eggs and Hatching

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I've been posting on this forum since September and have so enjoyed everyone's pictures but till now could never reciprocate as I had no digital camera, not even one on a mobile phone. :( I've just had a birthday :dance: and now have a dear little mobile that takes pictures easy peasy, so here goes ... if I can fathom the picture loading business :anxious:

 

On quite a few posts I've waxed lyrical about how, given the right plants, right garden design and right breed of chickens you can have both free ranging chooks and a garden, that, even if it is not up to being entered in the Yellow Book Open Gardens scheme, can still look pretty. Now here are the pictures that some of you asked for:

 

This is my 20m garden with the houses behind. You can just see two chickens coming up the path.

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Here is Dill my cockerel taking centre stage

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Here is Daphne disappearing into the dust bath that my OH painted for me for Valentines day.

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Here are Dill, Dolly and Daisy (who is moulting) sharing a coconut

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Here is their little house. There is no run as the whole garden is effectively a WIR

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I do hope this works and that you enjoy these pictures as much as I have enjoyed all of yours :D

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Chortle Chook Effusive Egg Layer

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Thanks for being so very nice and encouraging everyone :D

 

We did ditch grass quite early on, before the chooks arrived, as my OH so hated mowing it so the garden is basically a wiggly path going down the middle with sections divided up by box hedging. The sections are alternate slate shingle (which the chooks love hoofing) and flower beds each with some central, chook proof thing like a small apple tree, a bamboo or a rose. The flower bed planting is a case of 'design in progress' as we find out what the chooks eat and what they don't. They left my delphiniums for ages and then suddenly, just yesterday, decided that they were the most tasty things since meal worms were invented. :roll: By contrast, hostas and irises, so far, seem good.

As for the path my chooks do run up and down it a lot as they find the box hedging a pain to fly over if they are in a rush to get to 'Chicky lunch' or 'Chicky bickies'. They still do fly about though, but often land slap bang in the middle of the wee hedges. :lol: They also have their little pathways under them that they have created themselves.

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Isn't he. 8) I love your chicken house and your garden and your chickens.

 

I'm going to send my chickens over to Dill to learn how to behave in a garden. My lot would have had the earth over the slates and the shingle mixed in with the slates and poo everywhere :lol:

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