Hello from Central Texas

[fldiver97]

Welcome! Glad you decided to join

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best wishes and have lots of fun!

 

[KLIL]

Hello from down under Australia and welcome to BYC!
You are going to love it here.

Feel free to pop by and share your daily updates for 2019 too.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flock-life-journeys-2019.1286370/

Lovely to meet you and hope to speak more.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
I too planted my chickens pen with trees and shrubs. But I'm zone 5 so my plantings would be very different from yours.
My goals were only for shelter and beauty. I don't want the chickens destroying them. I used weeping conifers, knock out roses, perennial grasses, hydrangeas, dappled willow, sedum, ninebark, and this was in the area I penned in.
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Don't know what it is but the chickens spend a lot of time under and in it.

I love that! Beautiful.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy neighbor and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! You may want to join in on the chat at the Texas thread. Here's the link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/texas.44/

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[drumstick diva]

Hope you will enjoy Backyard Chickens as much as we do.

 

[laceynoelle]

Welcome!

 

[pineapple416]

Howdy from Washington State! Welcome to BYC!

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

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[feathermaid]

A picture of your setup would be helpful in determining what may work in your situation. I don't think I would depend on shrubs for wind protection, and especially not for any nutrition. My birds just like to scratch around them looking for bugs, and if there's something they like to nibble, it just disappears and never grows back. The best wind break may be some boards or a sheet of plywood. Many people in very cold climates build a 3-walled coop/run with one open wall covered in hardware cloth for the shielded side. Look into open-air style coops.