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The only real "new" thing I'm trying this year is a I just bought 20 lbs of "spring pea" seeds. I'm going to start trying to mix soaked seeds into the compost system to see if they'll sprout and give the birds more motivation to scratch and a bit of tasty sprout treats as a reward.
Please keep this thread updated on that experiment with sprouting your spring peas in the compost. I'd really like to hear how that works out for you.
I made a nice grazing frame for the chicken run last year, thinking grass would grow up through the hardware cloth and the chickens would have fresh greens to eat. It worked, for a short while, but the chickens scratched so much stuff on the wire that they clogged up the wire and blocked out the sun. So, everything died in the grazing frame. Not a total failure, but not the success I had hoped for.
Thinking about your spring peas, I wonder if a person would have more success to mix the seeds in the compost, then put some kind of barrier around that plot for a week or so to keep the chickens out and let the seeds sprout, then remove the barrier and let the chickens have at it? I saw one guy on YouTube do that with grain he sowed in the chicken run, and every week he moved the barrier to a different location.