Can I plant flowers without my chickens murdering them?

FunkyChickenButt

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Hi all,

I just moved to a place with some planting boxes, one of which my 3 bantams like to dirt bath and scratch in. I’d like to plant a couple things there (maybe lavender or something chick friendly) but I’m worried that the girls will absolutely decimate them. I also want to leave some space for them to bathe.

Am I being too paranoid? What’s your experience planting with hungry chickens?
 
Nope. They'd be toast. Once I had a long rectangular pot with lettuce growing in it and I wanted to see how long it would take for my chickens to make the lettuce plants disappear. Five minutes and there was nothing left but stem stubs.

And your chickens will continue to use the pots to dirt bathe in.

No respect.
 
Hi all,

I just moved to a place with some planting boxes, one of which my 3 bantams like to dirt bath and scratch in. I’d like to plant a couple things there (maybe lavender or something chick friendly) but I’m worried that the girls will absolutely decimate them. I also want to leave some space for them to bathe.

Am I being too paranoid? What’s your experience planting with hungry chickens?
Nope. Digging under plants seems to be their favorite thing. Plan for some cute fencing, light enough that they can't sit on top of it. Leave a dirt box or make a dust bath area somewhere else.
I planted in tires to protect the roots - but even potato vines were eaten.
The haven't eaten the Lavender or Rosemary and left tomato plants alone. But totally excavated under them.
Marigold, Mums they find really yummy 😋
 
Many of us have discovered you just can't have nice things when you have chickens marauding about like little street gangs. I also have deer and bears and evil squirrels. Everything that I don't want eaten before I have any say in the matter gets locked behind a tall fence protected with activated hot wire. There is nothing you could really call "landscaping" around the rest of my house. See? Fort Knox.
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Or plant things they really hate to eat. There is a few plants that they don’t like.

Mine maliciously uprooted the things they didn't want to eat and then scattered them all over the ground. So that's not guaranteed to work either. ;)

I've since learned to put the veggie garden AWAY from the chickens.
 

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