Alis girls Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Love the blue hen Cloud. My new girls (only 1 left now) annilated the rhubarb leaves some yrs back and then I found out they shouldnt eat the leaves cos they are poisionous - thankfully they lived to survive. Sooo naughty - mine made hen shaped craters in OH's lawn - of course I blamed the cats cos they are naughty too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 We had a deadish bit of garden at the bottom, so I fenced it in with a pretty picket fence, then savagely trimmed wing and tail feathers. Chickens don't come out of it now except for special occasions. They were such a menace, I still have no plants in places and they've been fenced in for eighteen months. To be fair, I haven't planted anything because I'm lazy, but there were plants there before the beaky mob got to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Mine are mostly confined to the run at the moment to give the grass a breather; I am planning to use a lawn mesh like Omletina did. The borders are fine but then they are protected by rabbit fencing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Thanks for the netting link, Plum. OH says we must go for that and be practical . . . but I'm holding out as I rather follow the pattern of Konrad Lorenze who had his wife sitting on a sofa in their sitting room all netted in so his birds (intellegent rooks and geese) could have full freedom . I'll give my pot towers a go and if that doesn't work I'll officially throw in the trowel, say the chooks have won and will get appropriate netting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanTheDiver Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 This is why my girls have a big play pen and not the whole garden as I love my garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 I had a very pretty, but small (20m), cottage style, garden but it seemed rather 'lifeless' to me. We are, alas, having a lot of new houses built round our little line of Victorian terraced houses, and the work which has carried on for nearly 7 years and has 3 more to go has scared off any wild life including any birds. Getting chickens was my antidote and I do really like them (despite the subject line of this post). They have livened things up no end. However, clearly, certain compromises have to be reached Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie45 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Last month we had work done in the garden and put the girls on the top lawn. This is a very mossy lawn and not really very good but the girls have done a wonderful job clearing out all the moss as well as giving it a good dose of manure. Now the garden work is completed and they have their own garden which contains a climbing rose. Oh! I said to OH they don't eat roses, am now eating my words!! Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...