{"id":11511,"date":"2015-06-28T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2015-06-28T06:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T06:27:32","slug":"chicken-run-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11511","title":{"rendered":"Chicken run shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The girls have quite a few big shrubs in their run but last year I put in a new shrub. As it was being stripped I enclosed it in a cage of chicken wire to allow it to get taller than the height that the chickens strip the leaves from.<\/p>\n

A year later and is still hasn’t grown very tall. I was fed up with the ugly cage and the space it took up in the run so I decided to let the shrub free. I decided that if it got stripped it didn’t matter too much as there are plenty of established plants in their run.<\/p>\n

As soon as I uncovered it the girls were straight to it to investigate. They scratched around it and set about stripping the leaves from it despite having had their mid morning spinach.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The girls are very interested in this plant<\/p><\/div>\n

Only broody Topaz is missing as she is sitting the nest box.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>

I don’t think this plant will last long<\/p><\/div>\n

\"There<\/a>

There are plenty of other established plants in the run<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The hypericum is just starting to flower<\/p><\/div>\n

This shades the table which is probably why that is a favourite place to sit and they also have the apple tree too.<\/p>\n

\"By<\/a>

By the afternoon the shrub has been stripped to peck height<\/p><\/div>\n

It will probably go further and get stripped to jump height next. Only tall things can survive the girls but luckily there are plenty of big and tall things in here already so this little shrub can just take it’s chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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