[FCG]

What are your top tips? I need to re lawn my garden after it being destroyed by chickens. It was mostly weed leaves, so that's the reason it's gone bald. I have a 75l bag of compost and hard wearing seed added with rye grass. Anything else i need?

[poultrygeist]

Yes. You need to put the seed on the ground and it grows  

Sorry  :oops:  :roll:

I'll fetch me coat  

Rob

[poultrygeist]

Mike, how long do you plan to keep the chooks off the area ?

Or are you going to rotate ? ie. regrow one section while they the next and then swap.

It may be that the grass will grow back on its own if you leave it.

Rob

[Kate and her Ducks]

My ducks also destroyed my lawn last winter with the wet weather and are half way to doing it again with the constant rain. I fenced it off from them and fitted in the holes with lawn dressing/top soil stuff and then threw grass seed at it all and voila!

Looks like I may be doing the same again next year if the weather doesn't improve just a bit! I am going to fence them off in the veg patch one I have finished harvesting and they will run there overwinter, fertilizing the patch for next year and resting the "lawn" but at this rate its going to be too late and will have to reseed again :roll:

[FCG]

They have a 3m x 3m run so 6m2 run will do them over winter. The plan is to grow the grass in the garden while they have fun in the run. Then let them destroy the grass in the garden over summer while they are kept out of the run while the grass there regrows.

I constantly put greens and soil and regularly dig up the run so they have plenty of fun in it. I just have to nip their wings to stop the bigger chooks (Tarbuck & Susie) jumping out.

The major problem was one big bit of the lawn was in nearly constant shade (except in the morning) and it got covered in daisy leaves and moss. That got torn up pretty sharpish, plus why i'm trying to take the initiative about fixing it up nice (also it's to placate the matriarch/battleaxe).