{"id":8350,"date":"2014-06-23T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2014-06-23T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:04:26","slug":"more-plants-for-the-chicken-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8350","title":{"rendered":"More plants for the chicken run"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt the new part of the chicken run was a bit barren. I thought it could do with some more plants to give the girls shade, shelter and something to scratch under.<\/p>\n

We went to our local garden centre and were pleased to find they had a “three for the price of two” offer on. I picked three plants, two that looked tough and woody and able to survive chickens and one that was tall enough to be mostly out of reach of the girls.<\/p>\n

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Three new shrubs for the chicken run<\/p><\/div>\n

The middle one has pink foliage and doesn’t show up so well but I thought it would provide a contrast. I am hoping that as they mature they will all merge together and make a good sized area for the girls to scratch and shelter under much like the huge hypericum.<\/p>\n

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I think this will provide a good wall of green for the girls<\/p><\/div>\n

Once my new babies, which I will be getting in a few weeks time, are integrated with the flock I think we will take down the divider in the new part of the run. This will still leave the part that has the spare coop as a separation area if we ever need it and the divider could also be put back if it’s ever needed.<\/p>\n

In the meantime it will give the girls (and me) a bigger open space instead of two narrow spaces and will give room for the plants to grow. The run is always evolving and improving and I want to end up with the best possible space for the girls to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I felt the new part of the chicken run was a bit barren. I thought it could do with some more plants to give the girls shade, shelter and something to scratch under. We went to our local garden centre … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}