Will chickens eat my flower seedlings?

[FrostRanger]

Consider your garden an all you can eat buffet for chickens with an after dinner dust bath

 

[alinas2010]

I love this pic.

Thanks! French Fry is a little ham!

 

[SmiYa0126]

Thanks! French Fry is a little ham!

Haha! French fry! What a cute name!

 

[wintermoon]

I’m sorry I don’t mean to laugh but that is too funny!

 

[wintermoon]

They are destroyers, I don't know how many times Ive had to replant the plants they dug up.

Ugh.. I’m sorry..

 

[wintermoon]

My garden is fenced in completely and it saves my tomatos!

Thank you for responding! Guess I’ll have to find some fencing now..

 

[wintermoon]

yes you need to protect young plants; young leaves are tender and are liable to be sampled and/or scratched up to get at the bone meal or whatever else you might put in the planting hole to help them get established.

That’s what I was afraid of

 

[Perris]

Don't be put off by the naysayers! My garden is full of flowers and chickens. Flowering shrubs generally work better than herbaceous perennial borders, and annuals are usually too fragile to cope, but even so I enjoy e.g. malvas (see photo), peonies, ginger lilies, bluebells, daffodils, aquilegia, day lilies, irises, hellebores, centaureae, pulmoneria, inula, cephaleria, etc. etc.

 

[tlcmurphy]

Thanks! French Fry is a little ham!

Love the smug look. “Your plant? What are you going to do about it?!”

 

[alinas2010]

Love the smug look. “Your plant? What are you going to do about it?!”

I knooooowww and I did nothing about it. I resolved to letting the chickens have the flowers pots last year. This year I got smart and put hardware cloth around the rim. I do think they were offended they could no longer get in.