Sprout some of your scratch grains to feed them. It's the best way to extend your feed. You can grow some in a blocked area of your coop run or next to your pen to cut for them
In your run area make a bed with 2×6" to cover with 1/2" mesh. This can be a area to plant some of your chicken feed. They can eat the greens without being able to scratch the roots up.
Fine video Chuck. I use chopped leaves I collect with my lawn mower to fill my chicken run. The addition of all that carbon eliminates the dreaded chicken smell and the chickens turn it into supper great compost. I also have a "salad bar" that's 5 X 8 feet in their paddock. Chickens will keep you young ! Good luck from Erie County Ohio.
We made a salad bar box, that I throw red wheat in covered it with hardware cloth so the chickens can’t scratch it up and when the wheat grows it pushes through the cloth! I also put pine bark shavings and peat moss all over their 14x40 Ft run, I keep it topped off at a regular basis, it looks and smells nice all the time! No mud issues and the chickens love to scratch through it, plus it creates a wonderful ongoing compost !
Sprout some of your scratch grains to feed them. It's the best way to extend your feed. You can grow some in a blocked area of your coop run or next to your pen to cut for them
In your run area make a bed with 2×6" to cover with 1/2" mesh. This can be a area to plant some of your chicken feed. They can eat the greens without being able to scratch the roots up.
Fine video Chuck.
I use chopped leaves I collect with my lawn mower to fill my chicken run. The addition of all that carbon eliminates the dreaded chicken smell and the chickens turn it into supper great compost.
I also have a "salad bar" that's 5 X 8 feet in their paddock. Chickens will keep you young !
Good luck from Erie County Ohio.
That sounds like a great setup!
Awesome! Can't wait to see how you make the chicken tunnel.
Nice
Yep, I need a portable tunnel or wagon.
I love your creativity! You gave me some new ideas for creating a run on my new property.
Thanks!
We made a salad bar box, that I throw red wheat in covered it with hardware cloth so the chickens can’t scratch it up and when the wheat grows it pushes through the cloth! I also put pine bark shavings and peat moss all over their 14x40 Ft run, I keep it topped off at a regular basis, it looks and smells nice all the time! No mud issues and the chickens love to scratch through it, plus it creates a wonderful ongoing compost !
Running area it is much higher than require you can minimize the expenses if hight will 3 or 4 feet
If hight will down you can hide it by flower and vegetable garden
So the looks will not be cheap
Hi from Adam's County 👋
Hi!
Love your ideas!
You can ferment your chicken feed too
We do ferment throughout the winter months when the feed costs are higher 👍🏻
I just wish I could free range my flocks. That would be optimum.
Beware of unpainted pictures pipe. It will break easily after being in the weather. Try cattle panels instead