Chicken trees

[Krazyquilts]

...peeling paint here...just stripped it off like it was candy...

And yet nice locally grown carrot peels? Won't even look at it!

 

[orrpeople]

And yet nice locally grown carrot peels? Won't even look at it!

Truth.

 

[Coop's Coop]

Hi My name is Jeannie I have about 20 chickens. I am going to make my chicken yard bigger, I would like to put fake trees in it. Does anyone know if this is ok, I wanted greenery in there pens. Any suggestions would be great fun. Thank you.

I don’t know about fake trees but we only have fake grass in our postage stamp sized backyard. I let the chicks peck around in my herb and veggie gardens and as they cross the artificial turf they do tend to try to eat it so I hurry them across. I’ll be planting a 5’x10’ real sod area so they can properly scratch around soon. I would guess they would try to eat fake trees if they had access to them. They taste everything it seems.

 

[Krazyquilts]

I don’t know about fake trees but we only have fake grass in our postage stamp sized backyard. I let the chicks peck around in my herb and veggie gardens and as they cross the artificial turf they do tend to try to eat it so I hurry them across. I’ll be planting a 5’x10’ real sod area so they can properly scratch around soon. I would guess they would try to eat fake trees if they had access to them. They taste everything it seems.

Except carrot peels.

 

[Care for chicks]

Mine picked at all the insulation they could reach in their camper-turn-coop. Of course, I didn't realize this until after it was done. Naughty chickens.

...peeling paint here...just stripped it off like it was candy...

Did your Naughty chickens get sick?

 

[Sunshine Flock]

Welcome to BYC! There are bushy weeds they don't eat, I have many that came up in my run...lambsquarter, pigweed, even a volunteer basil plant. Actually a few elm seedlings came up as well...there are many real plants that work. You could transplant and protect them, if you wanted.
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Beautiful! I love it!!

 

[Sunshine Flock]

What about planting some real trees you can easily top yourself so they don't burst through any overhead netting or fencing?

 

[theoldchick]

Fake trees will work if they don't fall apart. You'll have to stick with ones that have very large leaves-like the fake banana plants. Just remember, though, chickens will sling mud, feces and what-not so you'll have to take the fake trees out and clean them. The fake trees made of cloth material will soon be shredded by the chickens. I've known peoplel who have put potted trees (small ones) and kept rotating them in and out of the coop.

 

[Krazyquilts]

Did your Naughty chickens get sick?

Nope! Though that I think about it, it was mostly guineas in there at the time and those things are too stupid to realize that they should get sick.

 

[orrpeople]

Did your Naughty chickens get sick?

Nope...thankfully it was latex paint - kind of just went right through them.