What should I grow in a "chicken garden"?

[curiousnewbie]

I have plenty of room to grow a "chicken garden", and am wondering what to grow in it. I have 15 free-range chickens that wander all over my three acres, but I have decided to enclose a large area to keep them from pooping all over the patios and the deck. I have plenty of wire fencing, so am planning on an area about 100 feet by 50 feet, with a garden nearby. What would you suggest that I grow in the nearby garden? Whatever grows there will be exclusively for the chickens, as we have a large veggie garden area on another part of the property. What can I grow that will cover the wire fence and make the chickies happy?

Thanks!

 

[sandypaws]

so many diffent things....
mine love tomatoes,, squash,, celantro,, alfalfa,, peas.. beans,,
sunflowers...

 

[clinkennuts]

I am doing the same thing myself. (fenced run and garden) I also have a vegetable garden that I feed whatever I have to much of. I am going to try sunflowers and corn for the winter months.

 

[digitS']

I have grown sunflowers, millet, and wheat for the chickens.

They certainly like the various veggies in the squash/pumpkin family.

Steve

 

[chickenkate]

I heard somewhere that chickens like hops, and that hops provide great nutrition! They would probably like peas as well.

 

[cyanne]

Mine LOVE watermelon in the summer, so you could grow some of those as long as you can keep them away long enough for the melons to ripen.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Doesn't matter. They will eat everything. Even the stuff you don't want them to eat!

 

[Tad]

cucmbers are a favorite and easy to grow, watermelons,cantaloupes and honeydews too, mine go ape over pappayas but may be toooo cold for pappayas where you are!

 

[charlotteda]

Do chickens eat squash ?

 

[dave_Cash69]

chickens eat almost everything