Trev62 wrote:Cheshire Chick wrote:P.S. My peas have grown twice the height this year as well Trev. Looking forward to picking them although they don't usually make it to the kitchen as they get eaten straight away (by us and the chooks). So I to am looking forward to a nice crop.
It is a constant battle to keep our chickens off the herb garden and front area where we are growing the peas, nightmare really us against twenty free ranging chickens we are fighting a losing battle, strange that it is always the same two that always find a way past the netting and all the other deterrents no matter what we do!!![]()
I have to say my garden doesn't grow currently....exactly because of this reason

I had a count up (roughly because they kept moving about and weren't all in the same place!) but we have around 50 chickens and 15 turkeys (who are much easier to count and do tend to hang out together) all who free range. We've had to make the decision to end their free ranging days for several reasons.
1. My herb garden has been decimated by them but particularly the Turkeys who just stomp all over the netting and eat through it.
2. Chickens dig a bit of a dip to settle into..Turkeys dig craters
3. I've got 2 big tunnel houses to put up in the veggie patch but the birds have taken over and nothing will survive.
4. The Turkeys jump on the roof of the house and to be honest they are like a herd of elephants thundering about up there and goodness knows what they are doing ot the paint on the roof (good old Kiwi house with metal roof).
5. The Turkeys keep getting on my car and they are going to scratch it to death.
So soon I will be able to (hopefully) get back on the gardening trail
