Clydesdaleclopper
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Shrubs for a chicken runI am just about to start fencing a run for my soon to be acquired chickens. It is about 20m by 10m and I wanted to plant some shrubs in there to make it a bit more interesting for them (I can't put in trees as the pipes for the septic tank run underground). What shrubs would you recommend? Are there any that are poisonous to chickens that I need to avoid?
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Kelly
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Hmm I don;t know....be intrested though.. my chickens live in the orchard, so they have the trees...and the docks lol.
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Sassinak
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I bet if you purposely planted docks in your garden the chickens would eat them then !!! lol
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kathyg
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I have blackcurrant bushes in with mine. They grow like mad, easy to propogate, the chickens can only reach the bottom leaves and the chickens love them.
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lachlanandmarcus
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agree with that, ours used to strip the bottom of the redcurrant and gooseberry bushes, it would be a lovely treat for them. I knew they had been at it as bush was bare and some of them had red redcurranty juicy beaks  ). Chickweed too but thats a risk to bring in! and big rough tussocks of grass.
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kathyg
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Chickweed too but thats a risk to bring in!
What do you mean a risk ?
I often gets ours chickweed from the local fields.
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Ina
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What is meant is that it is a risk to start growing it in your garden - it might just like it so much that it takes over! Of course, if you bring it in from somewhere else just to feed it to your chicks, that's perfectly ok. Just make sure it's not at the seeding stage.
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