Author Topic: chickens vs nettles  (Read 2816 times)

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
chickens vs nettles
« on: March 23, 2011, 10:32:02 am »
i need to move my chicken run further from the house to make the place easier to sell

the only place i can see to put them is currently sprouting with quite a few nettles, will they be any problems for the chooks or will they just dig them up same as everything else?

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: chickens vs nettles
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 11:30:39 am »
Mine have nettles in their run, they don 't seem to bother much with them and they haven't done them any harm.  Good luck selling the house.
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

BlueDaisy

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Grow your own - veg and chooks!
Re: chickens vs nettles
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 11:42:42 am »
Mine are the same. The chooks have certainly curtailed the growth of the nettles but the nettles are still well and truly there! I think the chooks eat the really fresh young growth, and may do some damage to the root system, but by and large the chooks leave well alone! ;)

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: chickens vs nettles
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2011, 12:29:03 pm »
And all that nitrogen  from droppings help the nettles grow ;D 'Tis a never ending cycle.

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: chickens vs nettles
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2011, 02:16:48 pm »
cool

its about moving them away from the house to make the patio area which they are currently next too more appealing!!!

thats this saturdays work planned, building the new run then!!!

 

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