Chickens and organic gardening

I would fence off with some chicken wire the precious plants that you don't want eaten and let them dig and scratch the earth to keep the weeds down in the rows. They will devour a garden if given enough time if there are enough chickens in a space.

You can move the chicken wire around and control where they go (leaving a nice path back to their coop of course with the wire).

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/303701/garden-chickens

here's one thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/332894/chickens-in-the-garden

here's another

If you have fliers you can put them in a chicken tractor with food and water/nest boxes for the day and let them just dig up a small area at a time, just like a playpen for chickens. Make sure they have shade/rain/wind protection though.

    If you have strawberries, blue berries, any kind of berry plants; they really love eating berries. I must confess, that I encourage them, by sharing. When I would let them out to forage; they would literally( one chicken in particular) scope out the area and check on the berries. They enjoyed them so much that they would jump up to snatch them; either from my hand or the bush itself.

 They may cause you some frustration if there is something you don't want them to eat, so do keep those plants covered.

 Take Care!
 

They'll home in your garden even if its 200 feet away. And you do NOT want them in your garden unless you want them to rip everything apart. They are not quite as fast as a goat but the end result is about the same.

Only thing that will survive a chicken attack is full sized tomato plants 6 feet plus, corn stand, and trees. Can't think off hand of anything else that will survive their pecking and scratching. They can rip out a patch of crab grass and keep it crab grass free. Oh rose bush will survive.