Chicken Playground with Edible Paddocks. Pic heavy.

[rarebear]

I think it will last if they are not in it all the time.

I hope so. I am planting some winter cover crops in another month. In March I will till up the whole area and begin again with new plantings.

 

[rarebear]

I don't have any expertise as to how long that will hold up, but it looks like chicken heaven to me! Really cool idea.

I hope they will like it!

 

[flewdacoop]

NICE

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

A bit off-topic but, I found some weird tall stalky plant that was growing in my backyard. It was fallen over and looked like a tiny beaver got it, turns out the chickens pecked it over LOL. I threw it closer to the house and I kept seeing little peck marks up and down it

. It was about the thickness of a corn stalk.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

To be truthful, my husband grabbed the wrong seed bag at Southern States and inadvertently put in feed corn. UGH. That - combined with our heat wave - made it not only inedible but also nasty to look at. So . . . we left it in. Our original intent had been to harvest the corn and then let them in while the stalks were there to work on bugs, fertilize, pre-till, so that we could then remove the stalks and prepare the bed for fall planting. Figured the stalks would give the girls shade and they do. Plus, the gal's just love digging at the base of each stalk, working up bugs, having a grand old time!

To answer your question - the girls aren't eating the stalks but they're jumping up against them and pushing on them to get to aphids, bugs, that are on the stalks. The whole corn patch is leaning now!

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

We live right next to a field. They alternate between corn and soybeans each year. When they had soybeans the girls would go out there and sit in the shade all day they loved it! They haven't figured out the corn yet, so dry it makes too much rustling for them that they freak every time they go out there.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

New Stephen King horror flick . . . "CHICKENS OF THE CORN".

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Lol, on one thread we were making Chicken/Soap opera jokes. We got some good ones. I can't do it very well though, always over think it....

 

[rarebear]

A bit off-topic but, I found some weird tall stalky plant that was growing in my backyard. It was fallen over and looked like a tiny beaver got it, turns out the chickens pecked it over LOL. I threw it closer to the house and I kept seeing little peck marks up and down it

. It was about the thickness of a corn stalk.

Does it have big leaves, oval, I think? We have tons of those...they are SO annoying, but glad to hear chickens eat them!

 

[rarebear]

New Stephen King horror flick . . . "CHICKENS OF THE CORN".

hahahahahaha