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Can I put my Eglu & run on an (empty) flowerbed for a week?

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BadGardener · 19/03/2010 13:32

Have been moving the run/Eglu around every few days on the lawn, and the lawn is just about surviving, particularly as the hens are now free-ranging most of the time.
However we will be going away for 6 days and a friend is coming in to feed & water the hens, but I don't want to ask her to move the Eglu. The hens won't be free ranging when we're away, in case of escapes.
Therefore is there any reason why I shouldn't just put it on one of the borders (which doesn't currently have anything growing in it) when we go away, and rather than coming back to an irrevocably destroyed piece of lawn, I would come back to a lovely weeded, manured, dug and slug-free stretch of flowerbed?

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MiffyWhinge · 19/03/2010 15:05

that sounds like a PLAN! reminded me that had intended to do similar with potential veg patch

BadGardener · 19/03/2010 16:41

Thanks Miffy.
Wasn't sure if it was fine or if there was something I was missing - I'm new to this chicken game (have only had them around 6 weeks).

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peggotty · 19/03/2010 16:44

BadGardener, hope you don't mind this hijack but could you have an eglu permanently on a flowerbed? I am thinking of getting one soon and would like to put it on an unused flowerbed area with bark chips underneath and have it there permanently. Would that be possible do you think?

BadGardener · 19/03/2010 18:14

There instructions for doing just that on the Omlet website. They say wood chippings rather than bark tho' as bark goes mulchy quicker.

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peggotty · 19/03/2010 19:31

Oh that's great! Thanks for the link!

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