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    Topic of the Week - Gardening with Chickens

    My coop and run have a green roof on which I grow beetroot, various lettuce types, onions, garlic, pak choi, etc. I also have hanging baskets hanging from it full of watercress, mustard and alfalfa, mostly as treats for the chickens (also some flowers). More hanging baskets and pots over the...
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    My rescue hens sleep in the nesting boxes! It doesn't seem to harm them (poo on feathers or anything).
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    I've looked at the omlet netting but it's really expensive because the smallest they do is much bigger than I need.
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    It's just that I want an unobtrusive fence to separate that part of the garden, and that's easy enough to do with fence posts, netting/chicken wire and hooks, but the gate part requires more effort, at least extra fence posts and the ability to hook it to the bottom as well as the top, but then...
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    Welcome JohnnyA88 :) £20 cost is pretty good. We rehomed the cockerel so only have two chickens luxuriating in their large coop and run with freedom in the whole garden every day. Got rid of the greenhouse, too, and have adapted that area that's next to the chickens into a mini-orchard, so...
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    Aw, sorry to hear about your lovely old girl, RudiesRoost. It is easy to get really fond of the quirky little creatures. Two of mine won't go in the coop at night, just sleeping down in the run. Now that the weather should - theoretically, anyway! - start getting colder, I'd like to stop this...
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    My daughter wants to sell our excess eggs but I'd be worried about litigation from people who get ill from some other cause but automatically assume it's my eggs. They are laying at a ludicrous rate, though. This is their coop now. I grow veggies on the roof and there's a drainpipe and...
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    cutest chicken names!

    To go along with Elvis, our new chickens are also musically-themed - Bowie and Bjork (all hens). Bjork can say her own name! :D The next one will be Jarvis Cockerel. :)
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    Got this coop secondhand, added various veggies to the roof and some wildflowers, painted it egg colour, and added a pipe leading from the roof plughole to a water butt - going to turn that into an automatic watering system. It was VERY hard work to assemble, especially since my garden has no...
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    Those are lovely chicks, Dave! I'm having problems with the new chickens flying out of their area. I think I'll have to put up an enormous fence or rehome those chickens and get quieter ones. Chased a fox away from them yesterday - at 8:30am!
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    Hello from London

    Sorry, I didn't see this before! Elvis is fine and has new friends now, plus a new coop/ Hope yours are doing well. Lots of foxes in our neck of the woods.
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    Rebrascora, I think you're right. I like the shed though - might get it at some point anyway. Serendipitously, a henhouse came up for sale on Gumtree, a self-made one with integrated run and a wildflower meadow on the top. More space in the coop for my girls and more secure. And it turns out...
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    Hope the bullying stops soon, GG. Silly question: how do chickens get up to high perches? I need to make a new coop in a slightly awkward part of the garden and am considering buying a small shed to adapt because I can't find a coop of the right proportions. I'm considering this...
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    Belated happy birthday GGBear! Lovely present. :) We got two new chickens too, and are still fighting the foxes. Went out to check on them at 9pm and the fox had chewed through all the overhang of the roof of the henhouse! This doesn't actually give access to the house, but it gave me the...
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    Hope she pulls through, Rudi. Your birds are lovely, GGBear! And the baby, of course :) My Elvis is doing really well! She's walking almost completely normally and laying eggs regularly again. During the day I put her into her run when it's not cold (it has a raincover)and give her the run...
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