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Isabel and Ed

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Hi everyone!

 

We have had our girls for about 6 weeks and they are loving life and laying eggs every day. Our garden isn't massive but they seem to scratch up areas of grass wherever we put the run and it is getting a bit worn out at the bottom of the garden.

 

We are selling the house so don't want the garden to look too bad - any ideas of what I can put on the grass where we keep the run (we move it every 3 days but only have 4 or 5 places to move it to) - maybe bark or something??? Help...!

 

Isabel & Ed

 

PS thank you to the girls at the Royal Show who we met (was it scarlet / claret??) Ed bought me a purple one for my birthday by the way!

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I change the Aubiose about every 6 weeks. Sometimes I top it up a bit if I'm short of time, and give it all a good blast with a power washer another day.

 

I think it would be the same with bark.

 

I've not had much luck providing dust baths,. In the past I've given them play sand or compost and they have just scattered it everywhere. They prefer to make their own by digging hollows in the ground and luxuriating in the loose earth.

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I'm a bit of a maverick - I do have a run for my girls, but they can get over the fence if they wish and I don't have a roof to the run. What I do have is chicken wire round the whole of the garden so they can't get out (well they could if they went right down to the gate, but they don't bother). So I'm pretty relaxed about the whole keeping them in business - they can roam the garden which spreads the poo about and evens out the scratching. They go back to bed at night by themselves - and up to now it seems to work fine.

 

I'm sure people will rush to tell you that you must keep them in a run - I'm cool about that and understand that what works for me may not work for others, its just that I don't find I need to be so worried about penning them in; the whole garden is the run!

 

Mind you, you should see my veg plot. I sow nice regular rows of lettuce, Georgie gets in there and scratches a bit, then my lettuces come up all over the place, mixed in with rocket, carrots and the rest!

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Richard-that is exactly the reason we have a run, although that isn't much good at stopping them from eating the beetroot. At first we thought it was slugs but no-Gloria got to adventurous in the run and found a hole just big enough for them to sneak through. So far I have found them five times shamelessly eating our carrots and runner beans!!! :D

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