landscaping

Has anyone been successful on keeping their chickens out of their landscaping around the house and flower beds without putting up fencing around the plants and flowers? I love letting my chickens free range but they are tearing up my landscaping and have tore it up all the way down to the cloth...

My chickens have the run of my backyard in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It's hot and dry here, with terrible compacted clay soil that doesn't drain well, so gardening is a challenge. The one thing that grows really well is succulents, and I inherited a lot of them in the backyard...

Hey everyone! Not sure if anyone wants to see, but I love watching step by steps of other people's set up, so I thought I'd post my aviary build for anyone that's interested :) It's a slow process as work and lockdown restrictions mean time and resources are limited, but hopefully we'll be able...

I have five, four, and three week old ducklings and I finally got the duck house built in the section of the yard that I designated for the duckpen, but I need some landscap--I mean DUCKscaping advice! The duck-pen area was a part of the yard that hasn't been used for anything for a while and...

Hey y’all! I Posted a thread about my newly, “Free Range” set up in this section (asking general questions about what they needed in their newly fenced in chicken sanctuary) and the conversation quickly turned into Chickens VS Grass!!! And then to the Attacks from above!! It is imperative that...

Hey guy! I'm getting ready to do our landscaping at our new house and I'm looking for plants and flowers that my chickens won't eat. Anyone have any they they have had success with?

Each summer is an experiment in gardening and learning what grows well here and what doesn't, what produces and what doesn't, what prairie dogs and bunnies eat and what they don't. Doing some online reading/research I found that many critters won't eat daffodils because they are toxic on some...

Greetings from the Midwest. With a quick Google search I found BYC. Raised chickens all my life. Various poultry breeds and other fowl. Anything with feathers grabs my attention. Currently I have about a dozen free range laying hens, a few Silkies. Wanting to raise quail, butler and snowflake...

Alright, so I have seen the threads about converting your garden into a chicken run. however, i would like to do the opposite, as my chickens are getting a bigger permanent run in the orchard we are planting. we are hoping to put the veg garden where the run currently is. the 20x10 foot spot has...

Hi all! I will eventually be moving to Las Vegas sometime next May 2018. The houses that I’ve been looking at seem to have the running theme of rocky backyard. I am trying to figure out the best way to re-landscape and what to put down for my 6 girls so they don’t get bumblefoot or too hot from...