Chicken Garden for my Girls! Plant ideas?

[equinehugger3]

I KNOW spring is in a long time, but still I thought of it now so I'll ask now.

I'm planning on making a "chicken garden" for my girls: a garden where there will be things that they like to eat and that are pretty or fruitful. I'm pretty sure I'll do corn and maybe pumpkins or sqaushes, and are those okay, and what else do they like to play in, or eat, or peck at, or just like?


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[Liamm_1]

mine love basil

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

You can plant birdseed and grow millet. I have grown it successfully before I had chickens. But the wild birds love it too!

 

[missychicky]

Tomatoes! My girls ADORE tomatoes. Blueberries too, just don't let them eat the leaves!

 

[dianaross77]

I heard they love marigolds and that it colors the yolks of their eggs.

 

[Ariel301]

Wheatgrass (sprout some wheat), peas and beans, chard, lettuces, spinach, and zucchini are favorites of my birds.

 

[dirtsaver]

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I have marigolds right against the run and our girls never touch the things. Go figure!

Larry

 

[HorizonSon]

Comfrey! Plant some for the chickens and the family We have to keep them fenced so that they are not eaten down to their root, lol

 

[HorizonSon]

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I have marigolds right against the run and our girls never touch the things. Go figure!

Larry

We have calendula popping up everywhere; but I've never seen the chickens nipping at any of it.

 

[greenSearcher]

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I was blaming the grasshoppers for the disappearing plants. They were eaten to the ground, started to come back and I noticed yesterday they are gone again.