I would love to keep chickens - still have to persuade DH.
Our lawn is tiny and on a slope. But we have a bit of the garden lower down, that I was going to make into a veg patch - but the soil is too poor and there are too many trees. Could I use this for chickens?
It is about 12ft long and 5ft wide narrowing to 2ft wide. I was thinking of buying a coop and asking DH to build a run.
What should I sow this spring for an low (no) maintenence all weather surface - not forgetting the poor soil and very little sun.
Also how agile is the average chicken as one side of the run is a 3ft drop and the other side is a very steep slope up to the lawn. I would like to be able to let the chickens into the garden when we are outside in the summer. But they would spend most of the winter in the run so that does need to be a decent size.
If this is not good enough, just let me know, as I do not want to keep them if they will be uncomfortable. If it is good enough what is the ideal number of chickens. We will not have a cockeral as too many neighbours.