BackYard Chickens

As you can see, my run is pretty bare, and I'm wanting to get some greenery back in there. I'm working on building a few "raised flower bed" frames and I'm going to plant some grass in them, somewhat like this... BUT MY QUESTION IS... is there a particular type of grass that you'd recommend? Something with a little more nutritional value than others, something that is better quality, something that chickens like? Does it matter what type of grass I plant? Thanks for any input!

I have an older flock, year old, and I have 4 wk old baby chicks. I need help with knowing when and how should I introduce them? Also, what is the easiest way to do so? How do I keep the older ones out of the younger feed and younger out of older? My older ones have a pretty big run with a nice size coop inside run, and the babies are inside in brooder. This is all new to me. So, if anyone has any advice, tips, whatever, please help me out. Thanks

My dream flock would consist of one of probably every breed (of course!) but sadly, I cannot have what I want where I live. I am totally egg obsessed and trying to achieve the most colorful egg basket (and colorful chickens) with the least amount of birds possible in my suburban backyard. Seasonal availability and hatchery minimums are somewhat a hinderance, so I'm dependent on what my local feed store happens to carry. My current laying birds include Easter Egger, Buff Orp and Blue...

Decided I was finally going to try natural dyes for eggs this year. Natural dyes can be scratched off if not careful until fully dried. I put a coffee filter on bottom of bowls I used for dying so that their wasn't a white spot where the egg sat on bottom. I do not have any white layers so all color is over the base blue eggs from my ameraucana. I used four different items to dye the eggs and got five colors. ETA: wash the bloom off eggs before trying to dye them. From left to right -...

In this thread I intend to document my experiences with hemp bedding. The reasons I'm interested in this bedding is that it supposedly generates quite little dust, it's very absorbent, and it's easily compostable. When we hatched our first chicks in the spring, we bought some hemp bedding to use in their brooder, and we really liked it, but I couldn't find any at a reasonable price anywhere to use in the coop, so over the summer we've been experimenting with what was left of that initial...