Chicken coop planting ideas

When designing a chicken-friendly garden around your chicken coop, it's important to choose plants that are safe and beneficial for chickens. Chickens can be quite destructive to plants because they scratch, peck, and sometimes eat them. However, some plants can provide chickens with shade, entertainment, and a nutritious supplement to their diet. Visit our blog for safe plants around your chicken coop.

In this article, I'm sharing a few of the odd planting methods I use to keep plants growing in, around, and over my chicken coop. Growing the chicken-friendly plants, flowers, and shrubs in my chicken run prevents erosion, promotes flock health, and provides supplemental feed.

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Your backyard doesn’t have to be an eyesore just because you raise birds.

See pics of multiple easy diy ideas of how to plant a chicken grazing garden (or container garden) so your flock can nibble at fresh growin greens year round! SAVE THIS for handy reference:

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Raising your own chickens can be a great source of regular eggs, and maybe even chicken meat. However, before you can eat anything the chickens give you, it's

For anyone needing coop inspiration, here is my personal coop!

Eden roses.

When we built our chicken coop addition this spring, I was excited to also have them build me a raised garden bed underneath the windows. My plan for this was twofold: grow herbs and flowers that t…

“Do you have plans I can purchase for your coop?” I currently do not have plans for sale on our coop. We modified purchased plans from Twelve On Main and as of right now I still point t…

I hope you all are having a wonderful Autumn. It's finally feeling a little more like Fall here in Ojai after several weeks of hot weather. I love this time of year when the nights are chilly, and the shadows get longer... As I wrote about in a previous post,...

There are multiple plants you can grow to keep your chickens happy and can also double as treats. Here are five ideas of plants that you can grow in your run.

If you plan to set up a chicken coop in your backyard and want to properly set up a chicken coop, you have come to the right place.