- Jan 13, 2011
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Hi! I'm pondering this year's garden and this is the first year that we're starting the growing season with full-grown, free-ranging chickens. I appreciate all the droppings they've deposited all over the garden, and I love how they've kept weeds to a minimum with all that scratching they do. HOWEVER, we will never have a garden this year if I can't figure out how to keep them from chomping the seeds and tender seedlings I plant.
I've essentially given them half the yard by putting up a 4-foot tall chicken wire fence down the middle. But they clear it no problem, apparently by flying over. Surely folks have been combining veggie gardening and chicken keeping for centuries. But HOW? Any ideas?
I've essentially given them half the yard by putting up a 4-foot tall chicken wire fence down the middle. But they clear it no problem, apparently by flying over. Surely folks have been combining veggie gardening and chicken keeping for centuries. But HOW? Any ideas?