Chicken Courtyard

Backyard Poultry

The New Pen

Here's a view down into the open pen created by the runs. As you may have noticed, it's scattered generously with carrot and celery scraps from our kitchen. The chickens don't know what feast they have! Actually, that's true in more than one respect, since all that grass will not be there for long. It's very difficult to keep vegetation of any kind in a chicken pen because of their constant scratching and pecking. So we will see how long it takes seven chickens to demolish thick, healthy grass. Did you spot Peeper going for those dandelions?