Grass treatment while having chickens

[bryanpocalyko]

Hello everyone, I have six (6) chickens that I let out of the coop when I am home in order to eat bugs and such all over my yard...they know when to get back into the run so it works out really good. For the last couple years I have not put anything down on my lawn because they are out there. Does anyone have a suggestion of a fertilizer and seed I could use to help treat my lawn where at the same time not harm my chickens or us for that matter because we consume the eggs....thanks, let me know.

 

[SueT]

The chickens will fertilize the grass, but they could tear it up too if it's not a big enough area.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I wouldn't use a chemical fertilizer. Perhaps you could put down some blood meal for nitrogen, bone meal for phosphorus and wood ashes for potassium.
NPK are the 3 primary components of fertilizer.
For seed, grass isn't the best forage for chickens. It is low in nutrients and may be too fibrous. More tender forbs would be better. That would be things like alfalfa, clover, radish, forage type turnips, buckwheat, peas, etc..