Brilliant and beautiful! You are so creative merging your love for gardening with your love for your chickens. I am guessing in other videos of yours we may even see a few ducks? Thank you for sharing your life with us.
aww thank you for the kind words!! I would definitely love ducks, its been on the wish list for a while, but I think I've got my hands full at the moment. But definitely in the future :) xx
I have been looking into growing food in and around their coup! This is excellent! I would love to grow raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and alfalfa, either around the perimeter of their run or inside. I was thinking about growing blackberries on the outside and letting it vine up their fencing. And they can pick it through the fence as well as the alfalfa. What do you think about that?
Hi, ive just subbed, thank you so much, this has given me tons of ideas. I have a couple questions if you dont mind? 1. If you wanted strawberries, would you need them in raised beds out of the way? / do you have any berries you wouldnt reccomend? 2. Do you have problems with rats getting into the small house/coop? I want chickens but our allotment does have problems with rats being next to a trainline. Im wondering if you have any tips for that? Thanks so much! Im building a berry guild this year. Adding chickens through winter would be an excellent way to manage the weeds and add natural fertility to the soil. Plus i bet the chickens would love it.
so glad you found the video helpful!! re strawberries - I have these in hanging planters from the roof, because as you say they need to be out of the way! Loganberries, raspberries and thornless blackberries would my pick, as long as you wire off the base like you can see i've done they'll thrive with the chickens :) re rats - honestly yes, i have had times where rats and mice have been an issue. I have tube feeders the rats and mice can't get into which has helped, but honestly its not the chicken feed that attracts them, it's all the food i grow! I dont know what the answer is, im still working on this one myself :) truly, the chickens and berries are just so happy together! xx
good question!! the entire thing is wired on the roof, but honestly i do have a big issue with excess water when it's super rainy in winter. if you were doing the same thing in a really wet area i would have covered in part of the courtyard and had it guttered out of the coop, maybe only 3m squared, but i think it would have made a difference. hope that helps! let me know if you've got any other questions :) xx
It's straw - the waste product of grain production. Cheap, readily available, and utilising a waste product! i do use wheat chaff in the chicken house though, although a go through only a small amount of this ( I go through a lot of straw!). Hope that helps :)
@@alycealexandra Love your set up! We have a run that is pretty bare at the moment for our silkies and looking to grow berries too :) looking at material to put over the run (gets muddy when it rains a lot). Do you have problems with the straw on the ground getting moldy at all when they get wet (esp from days/weeks of rain)?
Love your chicken city!!!!!
I have my silkie with my teenage chicks. They think shes mom & she's happy too
awww I love this! xx
Brilliant and beautiful! You are so creative merging your love for gardening with your love for your chickens. I am guessing in other videos of yours we may even see a few ducks? Thank you for sharing your life with us.
aww thank you for the kind words!! I would definitely love ducks, its been on the wish list for a while, but I think I've got my hands full at the moment. But definitely in the future :) xx
I have been looking into growing food in and around their coup! This is excellent! I would love to grow raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and alfalfa, either around the perimeter of their run or inside. I was thinking about growing blackberries on the outside and letting it vine up their fencing. And they can pick it through the fence as well as the alfalfa. What do you think about that?
Hi, ive just subbed, thank you so much, this has given me tons of ideas. I have a couple questions if you dont mind?
1. If you wanted strawberries, would you need them in raised beds out of the way? / do you have any berries you wouldnt reccomend?
2. Do you have problems with rats getting into the small house/coop? I want chickens but our allotment does have problems with rats being next to a trainline. Im wondering if you have any tips for that?
Thanks so much! Im building a berry guild this year. Adding chickens through winter would be an excellent way to manage the weeds and add natural fertility to the soil. Plus i bet the chickens would love it.
so glad you found the video helpful!!
re strawberries - I have these in hanging planters from the roof, because as you say they need to be out of the way! Loganberries, raspberries and thornless blackberries would my pick, as long as you wire off the base like you can see i've done they'll thrive with the chickens :)
re rats - honestly yes, i have had times where rats and mice have been an issue. I have tube feeders the rats and mice can't get into which has helped, but honestly its not the chicken feed that attracts them, it's all the food i grow! I dont know what the answer is, im still working on this one myself :)
truly, the chickens and berries are just so happy together! xx
Do you have any roof coverage other than the food area and the coop? Thanks
(That you might add during winter or super rainy season) looking to do this in a smaller run space
good question!! the entire thing is wired on the roof, but honestly i do have a big issue with excess water when it's super rainy in winter. if you were doing the same thing in a really wet area i would have covered in part of the courtyard and had it guttered out of the coop, maybe only 3m squared, but i think it would have made a difference. hope that helps! let me know if you've got any other questions :) xx
Thanks heaps! I'm rebuilding my chicken coop (SE Qld) and I want to grow berries too. Voila! Your brilliant idea. How high is the roof?
the roof is approx 2m tall! so glad you love the set up :)
What do you use on the ground? Is it straw or hay?
It's straw - the waste product of grain production. Cheap, readily available, and utilising a waste product! i do use wheat chaff in the chicken house though, although a go through only a small amount of this ( I go through a lot of straw!). Hope that helps :)
@@alycealexandra Love your set up! We have a run that is pretty bare at the moment for our silkies and looking to grow berries too :) looking at material to put over the run (gets muddy when it rains a lot). Do you have problems with the straw on the ground getting moldy at all when they get wet (esp from days/weeks of rain)?
Slugs? Get ducks
i would love to!!