Official BYC Poll: How Do You Chicken-Proof Your Garden?

[chickentrains]

Maybe they just taste the sourness or just dont like it but if pepper powder is a natural wormer i should try that

Mine love peppers.....

 

[neo71665]

Mine love peppers.....

X2, mine eat the habanaro and ghost pepper scraps when I make hot sauce.

 

[BDutch]

The chickens free range only a few hours a day. In the run they have their own herb/grasses bed and a few fruit bushes (red currant and gooseberry).

I protect the strawberries, young sprouting beans and such against the chickens (and wild birds) desire to eat them. Have only a tiny vegetable garden.

The flowers beds no longer contain the most tastefull flowers but there are still enough flowers that co-exist with the chickens.

This way it works fine.

 

[K0k0shka]

My garden sits empty from September to May so that’s when the chickens have free reign over it. My husband plants winter wheat and some other stuff that stays green throughout the dead season, and the chickens love snacking on it when there’s nothing else around. My garden is netted on all sides and on top, so the chickens are safe from hawks while in it. During the growing season though, the garden is strictly a chicken-free zone.

 

[21hens-incharge]

While I have tender young plants my birds have to stay confined. Once things are established I allow them to run around while supervised closely.

I have to be out with them to protect my tomatoes from them and them from hawks.

The bigger garden issue for me is all the squirrels that like strawberries as much as I do.

 

[Tashua]

I have raised vegetable garden beds & containers , spent a lot of time when they were small and let them free range sayin “git git git”
To keep them out ! Seems to have mostly worked , they stay out . Occasionally one will run over and rip off a leaf and run LOL
Flower gardens they have no interest in once the flowers are bigger ,but seedlings they eat ! I stay out with them when they are free ranging for 2-4 hours, that seems to help. They like to follow the “treat lady” so I lead them to the areas I want them in

 

[PippinTheChicken]

My girls aren't interested in our plants... They prefer scratching around in leaves and dirt or eating grass.

 

[CluckerFamily]

I don’t chicken proof the flower garden. The chickens actually scratch and eat all the pests and grubs plus they even scratch and split a root once in awhile which is good for the flowers.
I am lucky that the flock hasn’t discovered the raised vegetable garden yet but they are slowly getting closer to it.

 

[HKG]

The garden is in a different yard. The chickens don't know they can get to it.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Mi casa su casa. My garden is about 9,000 square feet. It’s hard for my flock of 14 to do any damage.