Which plants won't the chickens eat...

[purplewednesday]

I'd like to plant something / anything along the outside of the picket fence that keeps my chickens in, but they seem to eat most things! Rhubarb has been suggested to me, but I thought that the leaves were poisonous.

Does anyone have any ideas please!

Ours haven't touched the rosemary or the thyme that's in the garden.

Or the stinging nettles .

LOL at the idea of planting nettles!

Will try the herbs tho, thanks

Funny, mine love nettles but hate docks....am over run with docks... not a plant I would recommend . Mine have also left my thyme alone, and my chives, everything else has been fair game though I think. Chive flowers are pretty, so a nice herb border could look lovely. Not sure they would go for lavender either because it gets so woody, but I don't know if anyone has experience of that?

nettles.

they'll pretty much eat everything else.
even if they don't like it.
they just go back and try again the next day, because it might have changed (or it's an acquired taste...)

if you're putting around the outside of the fence, then you can plant anything - as long as they can't dig at the roots and it has a chance to regrow.
might be worth sewing seeds of broccoli or cabbage-type plants - then they're getting their greens, too.

I'll just have to experiment a bit.

Or just give up!

I did try lavender but they ate it, not tried chives though. that may well work out it because they don't seem to like leeks / onions.

Mine eat rhubarb and chives.
Grow cabbage for them or box hedging.

Seems like there is no hard and fast rule. Mine will eat docks.

I'll go back to trial and error!

I have some new girls (and boys), and these will eat docks and not nettles.....go figure. One half of the run has been stripped of nettles but has lots of docks and the other vias versa.....Jack Sprat and all that!

Lemon balm! has the advantage of being easy to grow, will attract bees when it flowers and smells nice and lemony. Failing that, cow parsley.

mine won't touch basil, but that probably wouldn't be much use against your fence!

Hmmm my girls ate all the plants in our garden except the mint, then there were no more nice plants so they ate the mint!

Mine won't eat the laurel bush that happens to be in their pen....but they scoffed the spearmint plant...I was expecting minty eggs

mine eat EVERYTHING!