heather134
Chirping
Now that I'm fairly confident our hen didn't die from avian flu (instead I suspect fowl play), I'm focusing on creating a better free range area in our urban yard. Last year I bought a lot of perennials which of course the girls promptly ate. I don't want them cooped up all summer, but I also don't want the yard to look completely trashed like it did last year. We have some fencing material so I can block off a section of the yard so they can scratch and eat weeds to their heart's content. It's an area that used to be a vegetable garden, but gets too much shade to be productive. Should I put any special ground material there for the girls to take dust baths, like sand or topsoil? Any other suggestions of things I can add?