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[amys garden]

Whoda thought it ?!

Hens love grass seed especially grass seed fertilised with miricle grow

Now I know I'm a very silly chicken keeper

Have no idea how I'm going to protect that lovely patch of freshly sown seed just outside there coup...

And more importantly my lovely ladies

Just I havent poisoned my poor lovelies

I've read the box and can find any poison wainings ....

[Happily]

I'm not sure about the miracle grow bit but grass seed isn't poisonous to them. They obviously thought you had given them a lovely treat

 

Without fencing the area off it's gonna be tricky to keep them away I think. I'm sure your chickens will be ok hun x

[amys garden]

Hi Happily

I guessed the grass seed is benighn but the ferterliser was a worry

It's been raining today so I'm hopping that will help wash it into the soil

The irony is usually I allways garden organic...

They seem ok at the mo but I am considering withdrawing the eggs for a while

[auntielizzie]

I too discovered that chickens love grass seed when i re-seeded some patches in my garden a few weeks ago. They were sticking their heads through the netting to gobble up the seed that they could reach I can't comment on the fertiliser Im afraid because I didnt use any. Needless to say, the area next to the netting is still completely grass-free

 

Chickens also love broad bean plants - they can just reach across to one corner of my vegetable patch, so the poor plant within their reach has been severely pruned However, they still do not like peonies as the peony plant within their free range area is still untouched and was full of flowers until a couple of days ago when the rain came and battered them all off