Help! Alternatives for grass in chicken area!

[Pensmaster]

One way to have some grass they can't destroy is to build some grass boxes.

At first I put them perpendicular to the fence but didn't like that so I started building 12" x 48" and putting them parallel to the fence. I just had a thought that in some of the low places in my yard to surround that with 2x6 grass boxes and put pine chips in... dunno.

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JT

 

[Country_Boy]

JT has a good idea. Barley might give good results. A 25kg bag soaks to become 50kg and grows out to around 300kg of feed. Granted outside (In the soil) they don't get to eat the bulbs but done nicely you could have living feeder-boxes under your tree and the chickens love it. Grows extremely fast! Can use fencing on bricks if you're worried wood will rot