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[Luvachicken]

I am surrounded by everyone else's trees and therefore am about to get loads of leaves. Ususally I just rake them up and put them in their mud pit, but I thought they might have more fun with them in their run - especially as they are inside for longer now.

I will have oak, beech, chestnut and silver birch leaves as well as ornamental cherry - are these all ok for the girls to have ?

I was hoping there will be lots of bugs on the leaves for them, but they do seem to like eating some of them too

Can I just keep chucking them in or will everything start to get a bit yucky ?

 

Thanks x

[Leeloo]

It wouldn't hurt to try it! They'd probably shred it up before it got yucky. I read on another forum about a guy who used pine straw in his run to keep the smell down. He said it broke up so he never had to rake it out. I tried it and it was true. Some of it got tossed outside the run and the rest seemed to break down and get mixed in with the soil.

[Snowy]

We have several trees outside our house and every year I collect all the leaves for the chicken run. They love it! And when it comes time to clean out the run, the compost is amazing

[Duncan08]

Great idea, I am going to try that one,

[jackian]

After reading this thread this morning I have been out gathering the leaves I was going to bag up.

They are now all in the WIR and the girls are loving them...Scratching around them like when FR ing

What a great idea

[Luvachicken]

Thanks everyone. I will start tomorrow on that never ending task ( well, a while anyway)

 

Does anyone know about the little mushrooms that pop up in my grass ? Is it safe for those to be in the raked up leaves and eaten ?

[cyclonetog]

I'm not an authority on mushrooms, but our birds FR around the lawn and whatever grows through it every day...

[Luvachicken]

I have just finished raking up todays leaves and my girls must think it's their birthday.

They are having a whale of a time. And they make so much noise with their feet. They are playing nicely and looking for anything edible - especially as I threw some Garvo treats on top, but I must admit even I found the treats difficult to see. That will keep them busy

I wish I'd thought of it before

[Eggasperated]

My girls love searching through the leaves for bugs, last year in all the snow they couldn't get out to free range so I tipped some bags of leaves I had into their run and they spent a happy couple of weeks raking through them.