Rural Gardening: Ready for the horror story?, 1 by kassy_51

kassy_51 wrote:
They will distory it in no time I have a feeling. When our chickens where young and my boyfriend started there pen, he planted rye in it. We can't get anything to grow in it now, they won't leave anything alone long enough. And we swear they eat a bushel of dirt too. He keeps adding dirt to areas, and it keeps dissapearing. I'll have to look for one of the pictures we have of them when it was a nice pen of rye. It didn't last long.

We have one rooster who tips the water dishes over for the hens, because he knows they like to scratch in the wet soil then and find bugs. We have had to use a rock in the water dish just to keep him from tipping it over and he still tries.