Access from run into garden

[eng6trk]

I want to give my chickens access to my garden from the run. I was hoping for some ideas on how to do this with my current setup. I attached a picture.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

So letting them "out" to get there themselves is not an option I take it????? You could do a "chunnel" or more of what you have there which is really cute. I let my chickens destroy my garden when I'm done with it, like right about now. When it's use however, they are fenced out of it and any other area that I actually care about landscaping wise as they are grande destroyers of all things pretty.

 

[AnnPann]

my run is nearby my fenced garden, and I don't have a direct "connection" setup right now. I just open the door and shoo them into the garden. Then when i want them back in the run, i shake the can of treats at them and throw some in the run.

I actually let mine have time in my garden all summer once plants were established and they were pretty respectful of it actually. they sampled some things like tomatoes and blackberries, and helped out tremendously with the bugs, but (oddly) stuck to the paths for the most part.

If you want them to be able to come and go on their own, you could do a tunnel or just setup some poultry fencing to make a path for them into your garden. If your garden is not covered, then there's no point in going to the work of making the path from run to garden covered either.

 

[eng6trk]

Where I am stumped is once I cut the hardware cloth in the run, then how do secure it so that predators cant get in @ night?

 

[3KillerBs]

Where I am stumped is once I cut the hardware cloth in the run, then how do secure it so that predators cant get in @ night?

You'll have to build some kind of door that you can fasten securely.

 

[aart]

You'll have to build some kind of door that you can fasten securely.

Yes, this^^^^
Maybe on the end of the run, if we could see it all.
You have no way to get in there yourself?

 

[WI chickens]

I personally don't consider nearly any run as "secure". I have seen exceptions, yes, but rarely. Secure for me is when the chickens are locked in their coop at night. It's far easier to secure a building than a run. I would build them a tunnel to the garden and make sure they are locked in their coop at night.