Chickens and the Vegetable Patch. A great Home Farming Combination for self sustainability. In the sense of self sufficiency and self reliance, Chickens and a Vegetable Patch go well together. In every other Department, it's touch and go to say the least, suddenly you find that security wise, the Chicken is no longer the Prey, it's the Predator! When actually preparing a Vegetable Patch or indeed when winding things up at the end of the growing season, your Hens can be very efficient little workers, they'll rummage and scrape through all your turned over soil, find all the little creatures, a few slugs maybe, eat a few weeds (especially Dandelions) and leave a few Poos to fertilize the soil for good measure. The problem is that if when you have actual living and active vegetables in the Patch, the sure fire way to find out what is a weed and what is an edible Vegetable is to see what's left after they've been there... Weeds! Fencing around the Chicken Run is for two reasons; to keep your Chickens in and to keep Predators out. In this sense a fence around a Vegetable Patch is definitely keep them out and should be fixed and as effective as the Run. I once tried putting the plastic fencing they use around holes in the road. I carefully put posts in and efficiently encircled the whole area. Great, not, they simply slipped underneath and before I knew it half the Sprouts had gone! Give a Chicken a Sprout on it's own, it won't take much notice, attach it to it's stem, they'll love it! So, what sort of Fencing can we put around parts of the Garden we want to protect without making it look too much of a mess and an expensive one at that! My Growing area is around 2. In most cases this would require a longer fence than your Run itself. You could still go down the plastic netting type route, but be sure to embed it into the ground. Also, be aware that it tends to sag and a Chicken will get over it quite easily. See the Video 'Digging with Chickens' in The Blog. Add to that if you're not around a Hen get's entangled in it, it probably wouldn't last long, I've had the horrible experience of finding a Hen which had got stuck obviously trying to go through a little gap and I kicked myself for weeks because I hadn't noticed the risks. Basically, it's going to need more than that, so I would go down the four / five feet high Chicken Wire route. It doesn't need to be as thick as a Run fence as the Chickens will not have the bite a Fox has. The other way would be electric, but if you had the same size Patch as me, that would amount to over three figures ! Fast and reliable with good reviews . Facebook. Entfernen. Wir verwenden Cookies, um Inhalte zu personalisieren, Werbeanzeigen ma. Wenn du auf unsere Webseite klickst oder hier navigierst, stimmst du der Erfassung von Informationen durch Cookies auf und au. Weitere Informationen zu unseren Cookies und dazu, wie du die Kontrolle dar.
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