MET
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Chickens - are there any garden plants they wont eat?!I have a few chickens in my garden for the eggs 
but they keep eating my plants! 
is there anything I can plant they wont touch? 
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Bebo
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Not much. The seem to leave our roses alone and they don't touch the mint that's springing up through the garden path.
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dpack
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if they have plenty of things they like they will leave some of the things you like .
i have noticed that many things considered weeds in a garden are salad delux to chooks ,chickweed being a good example ,fat hen is another of garden plants young peas are always in need of a fence if you have chooks
the dirty 4 dozen didnt seem to be too bothered by salad as they had acres of it but some were very keen on hunting (including baby rats using a weaner piglet as a jcb to get at the nests.)
my gran only let a few "special"ones in the garden to catch pests now and again and she had growing and raising in separate areas that rotated to get the benefit of chook cleaning /fertilizing without the destruction.
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earthyvirgo
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My neighbour has two chickens in her back garden - they ate everything in sight. She eventually let them go to a more suitable home, where they had plenty of room to roam and no rules about what they could, and couldn't eat.
Her rabbit however is still eating everything!
I watched him get up on his hind legs the other day and nibble the succulent tips from a whole wigwam of sweet peas.
He's not daft.
EV
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Spruengli
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Mine won't touch euphorbia (sap is an irritant - for people as well!), irises, paeonies, buddleia, hollyhocks, catmint, artemisia, pinks, echinops. Pretty much anything else has to be protected or only survives above the 'browse line'
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Shan
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Not much. The seem to leave our roses alone and they don't touch the mint that's springing up through the garden path. |
