Chicken safe plants for mostly shade?

[savannahchick]

I am adding plants to my chicken run. I know chickens are destructive little fellers but I'd like to add something. The area I will be planting is mostly shade- A LOT of shade. What are some chicken safe plants that can grown in shade?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi

Here are some threads on plants that I hope will help you ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=Plants+and+chickens#

There are also some good articles in this section of the learning Center ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/housing-and-feeding-your-chickens

Good luck and happy planting

 

[clothespin]

It depends on where you live. Here in south central Texas, the yaupon and scrub oaks were naturally in our large "day spa" run area... And the chickens never eat them. In fact, my husband has to go a couple of times each summer and trim the yaupon back to keep it from getting too big and taking over the run.

And while not good for shade, we had volunteer tomato plants come up in the coop last year... and the chickens left them alone. They did eat the tomatoes but the plants were fine and grew huge - even without any extra water! This year, we're moving some of the little tomato plants to the garden to see how they do being taken care of! They have to be sturdy to be happy surrounded by chickens.

But, if you have local growing shade plants - try those. Yaupon works really well here.