- Mar 19, 2007
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I am in the process of making a bigger run for my laying hens. Right now it is a 20x25' area that is my old garden and is bare tilled dirt. I would like to put some kind of ground cover in the coop to help control the dust and to give my girls some healthy greenery to eat.
I would like to sow the whole area to get it started, then after I move the girls in there I plan on sectioning off an area at a time to reseed and allow the gound cover to regrow, keep rotating a section of the coop each month or two so there is always soem fresh greenery for them.
I was wondering what would be a quick growing ground cover that my girls would like to eat and is healthy for them? My first thought was red/white clover and alfalfa that is used for deer plots.
It would have to be able to grow in sandy loam, be a perennial plant that is drought tolerant, grow in filtered light with only 3-4 hours of direct sun, take the abuse that chicken can put out and be healthy for them high in protien.
Any other ideas out there?
Thank You,
Cory
I would like to sow the whole area to get it started, then after I move the girls in there I plan on sectioning off an area at a time to reseed and allow the gound cover to regrow, keep rotating a section of the coop each month or two so there is always soem fresh greenery for them.
I was wondering what would be a quick growing ground cover that my girls would like to eat and is healthy for them? My first thought was red/white clover and alfalfa that is used for deer plots.
It would have to be able to grow in sandy loam, be a perennial plant that is drought tolerant, grow in filtered light with only 3-4 hours of direct sun, take the abuse that chicken can put out and be healthy for them high in protien.
Any other ideas out there?
Thank You,
Cory
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