[CluckyChicken]

These are my potato plants- in the bags to contain them (an experiment) and my chooks have eaten all the leaves they can!  Oh, and a couple of pics of my lil' girl- crouching now, so hopefully an egg soon 

[OpiumEater]

They've got off quite lightly, mine was stripped to a stalk! I thought these stupid birds were meant to know which plants to eat and which not to? 

[bantam novice]

Shame about the potato plants but your girl is so lovely she could get away with a great dea more    Good luck with the eggs>

[CluckyChicken]

I thought these stupid birds were meant to know which plants to eat and which not to? 

They never payed any attention to them whilst they were growing, but as soon as they began to get the flower buds - wham!  They would eat the rest if they could reach I think!  but I don't really mind- seeing them jump to try and catch one is funny 

[bantam novice]

 

[andreadon]

we've got potatoes in buckets, and they've suffered the same.

as have the strawberry plants (the ones in posts and the ones in the border!) and the parsley, and the chives, and the grass, and now they've started on the bluberries!
 

the garden looks like a wilderness. 

But i put chicken wire round the one remaining strawberry pot, so they can only reach the leaves that hang out of the mesh. 

[OpiumEater]

All my beds have netting fencing around, but they still barge their way through  I've plans for better portable fencing next year, just letting them have their own way a bit this year 

[themagicaltoad1]

The last time I tried planting veggies in my garden I carefully walked along popping onions into the ground and carefully covering them up until I got to the end, turned round to survey my hard work and was greeted by a long row of discarded onions! one of my hens had been following behind me digging them all back up.   I've given up and got an allotment now.

[CluckyChicken]

  I've given up and got an allotment now.

  they've managed to eat three of the plants now.  I've given up, and all food will now be grown on the allotment.  It was poriginally done for convenience, you know, go outside and there they are.  However, they are not there if the chickens have eaten them!