gardening with chickens

  1. lefttowrite

    Fall Garden Prep, or: Earning Their Keep Since They’re Not Laying Yet

    The girls got a lot of garden time in the last couple days, between cleaning up beds, leaving behind a little compost, and eating spreading out cover crop seed. What’s cuter than black chickens against a backdrop of fall color? Nothing, I say! Ella, queen of the woodpile. Mama Cass - is...
  2. SituationalLefty

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  3. Lacy Duckwing

    What's Safe or Not in Garden?

    I am looking to move my flock of layers to my overgrown, fenced in garden. My question is what can I leave in there and what should I remove. I know tomato plants are poisonous, amongst some other plants, but I want to hear everyone's opinion who is willing to help and share. Thanks in advance!
  4. Chicken-Keeping Tips for City Slickers

    Chicken-Keeping Tips for City Slickers

    Those of us new to chickens and living on small city lots aren’t able to follow a lot of traditional chicken-keeping practices. Full-time free-ranging is out, for one, and all the advantages that it offers. So are the benefits of keeping a rooster to guard and guide the flock. And we generally...
    • Kat MacK
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    • 6 min read
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    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Getting Started Raising Chickens
  5. Butterfly Bush

    Butterfly Bush

    Great Plant For The Run
    • Lady Hermione
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    • Album: Butterfly Bush
  6. Delaina & Delilah

    Delaina & Delilah

    Black Stars
    • Lady Hermione
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    • black star gardening with chickens plants for coop
    • Comments: 2
    • Album: Butterfly Bush
  7. Bugs Beware; there are chickens in the garden moat

    Bugs Beware; there are chickens in the garden moat

    While I have been planning on getting chickens for several years, we finally decided this was the year. The plan all along was to use the chickens to try and keep the bugs out of the garden beds. I had originally envisioned a chicken tractor that i moved once a week or so, but then I realized I...
    • cShTiEcVkEeNn
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    • 7 min read
    • automatic door chicken moat chicken tunnel chunnel dog safe chicken run-in gardening with chickens light activated automatic chicken door. pest protection poop tray
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Medium Coops
  8. Chicken Garden 23

    Chicken Garden 23

    It's starting to look like a park in the run!
    • Lady Hermione
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    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Gardening with Chickens in the Run
  9. Afrodigh

    Coop Location Questions

    I am in coop-planning phase and have some questions for the chicken experts out there. 1) Chickens & garden: I came across this blog the other day (http://houseandbloom.com/from-grass-to-garden-presenting-the-potager/) and would really like to build something similar in my backyard. My thought...
  10. farmermama

    Bought some land and gifted some chickens...loving new farmer life!!

    We have just moved to Walla Walla WA and decided to purchase an acre so we could raise some animals and a garden. We were gifted two small flocks of youngish chickens within 3 months of moving in and integrated them together over time. 6 Rhode Island reds and then 5 assorted motley crew...
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