Our Chicken Tunnels, Coop, and Run Setup around the Garden
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Chicken chunnels are a great option for a gardener with chickens. Here's our setup, including the chicken coop, chicken run, and chicken tunnels around two sides of our large garden area. Chickens are great for weed control and pest control for our gardens, and here's a way to help them work for you while keeping them safe. Plus, chunnels are a perfect way to "free range" chickens without the risk of actually free ranging them or the daily effort of moving chickens daily with a chicken tractor. Win-win for the time-strapped gardener!
More resources:
Beginner's Garden Podcast Episodes (and blog posts) on Chickens in the Garden --
A Gardener's Guide to Getting Started with Chickens: journeywithjil...
Gardening with Chickens: How to Use Your Flock for Manure, Natural Tilling, Pest Control, and More: journeywithjil...
Keeping weeds down around fencing is actually a regular problem in gardening, since weeding tools often get caught in the fencing, and may damage fencing over time. Making chicken tunnels around the garden seems like a great way to reduce perimeter weeds, and feed the chickens at the same time.
Great idea! I’ve always used salt on the fence lines. It works but the runoff kills the grass☹️
@@BoneyRasputin you could use sawdust to keep down the grasses and weeds. It's natural and won't harm the birds, plus it looks nice.
My grandparents had chickens. But I never knew that chickens eat grass/weeds.
@@willhorting5317 Chickens are meat lovers as well. My chickens love, love, love stale bread, meat, fish, insects. They like veg. and weeds. They do not like Bermuda grass.
I’ve got a friend who literally lets his chickens and rabbits free range in his garden. I have no idea why they don’t eat his garden but they don’t. They only eat the bugs and weeds. He lets them out everyday and then they go back to their hutches every night. It’s the damndest thing I’ve ever seen.
My friend let's her chooks in her garden too and they nibble but don't destroy anything. Mostly they eat the bugs.
They destroy my garden lol
My rabbits generally are pretty good about some things, but the chickens are destructive maniacs!!! 😂
My parents used to have chickens roam free at daytime in the garden.
The first two years, my mom tried to prevent them from eating the crops and then she gave up and simple only planted what they didn't really liked.
Worked exceptionally well, chickens have a wide range of plants they don't like or only like a little bit.
You only have to make sure, to not plant to young, because chickens always search fresh areas for bugs and can kill small plants in the process.
Your friend is really lucky!!
Great looking garden and chicken tunnels. I remember many years ago my Dad was having lots of trouble with the Fox and Coyotes coming in at night walking off with a chicken sometimes. He found that they would dig under the fence to get them so what he did was dig out the entire area for a new pen and he buried heavy duty chicken wire under 3 inches of dirt and reseeded it before building the new pen where the buried wire connected to the wire running up the walls. Those Fox and Coyotes tried many times to dig under the pen but were stopped each time they ran into that buried wire and left a little blood when they couldn't dig through it.
One of the best ways of incorporating chickens into your vegetable garden is to open up your old beds to the chickens on a rotating schedule. The set up I saw had 6 identical circular beds with domed moveable chicken coop that fit over the beds. The vegetable beds had a rotating planting schedule, every time a bed reached the end of it's productivity, the coop was moved, the chickens had a feast and cleared the bed of weeds and pests, added fertiliser and dug the ground over. When the coop moved to its next bed, the result was a lovely rich bed to sow the next round of crops.
I thought you could try something similar, having a moveable cage that connects to your chicken run when you're ready for the chickens to let rip in your beds when they're at the end of their season...
You are very lucky, no ground predators. Pieces of wood just stuffed under the chicken tunnel gaps wouldn't stop a possum raccoon or a wild hog. let along a neighbor's dog. Also, To keep the girlz eggs clean I have their roost area away from the nesting box ...looks as though your girls have to walk right through their poop from the roost area in front of the nest box. just my 2cents from grandma :)
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Yeah this is what I was thinking also. It looks great, but if I did that here, they'd all be dead that very day.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy don't you have dogs? have them patrol outside the secondary fence, like she's doing.
I'm sitting in my apartment in Stockholm, being an operating technician, scribbling down tips from you if I ever just - dump it all and move out into a place where I can have chickens… Lovely garden and setup!
Software engineer in a tiny apartment in San Francisco, CA doing the same!
That’s fantastic.
Dream baby, dream
VFX artist here, I am sick of working on Hollywood movies. I find myself watching these videos and I am mentally preparing for a radical move when the opportunity presents itself.
@@jupitereye4322 you are more wise than most.
I know this must sound strange but I'm thinking about using this for my cats. They're indoor cats but I would love to have them outside without a leash and without the risk of them running away and getting run over by cars (I live near a sort of large road). Maybe build a bigger cage around a tree so that they could climb as well
You're a responsible cat owner. The worst problem in Australia about cats is irresponsible owners letting their cats roam free and killing local / native Australian animals to extinction.
Not strange at all! Some cat owners have an enclosed *catio* (CAT paTIO) where the cats can safely roam "outdoors"... safe for the cats from predators and safe for prey from the cats.
you wanna kbow something really strange... My parents used to hang a zipwire or leash to the drying rack/mill in the backgarden so our cat could go outside if she wanted but not roam around as much and go to our neighbours gardens
That would be great! Some people also do catios of different sizes too. We brought our outside cats into the house in their own very large room that goes into our basement. But a couple of them long for the fresh air with freedom. We used to just let them in and out, but we got a dog that wants to play....but is a boxer so she likes to box and squish them. (Dog doesn't do that with the "inside" cats) So we can't let them anymore. We are think of building on of those. Of you have a spare window, and we do, you can get a window insert that has a cat door and they can go in and out.
Just let them out
Great video! Love you chicken tunnels! I've never had those I garden the way my Mama taught me. Our chickens free range with me every evening after work in warm weather, about 8 months out of the year where i live. I work in the garden and they scratch and peck at the bugs and weeds I throw them. I have a combination of raised beds, some gravel in between and ground plantings. My method is to put up chicken wire when everything is getting started. Everthing gets it...in the ground and on top of the raised beds and the chickens learn this area is off limits with discouraging hand claps and shooing as well. When I take down the chicken wire 2-3 weeks later they pretty much leave everything alone. If they come near the plants I give them the Southern Mama "AANNT" and they turn right around. This training time is worth it because they really keep bug/pest populations in check. Bugs are more destructive. I have some stumps, perches for them too in the garden. I also have 3 compost piles on the ground that they love. They turn it for me and get lots of worms as a treat and added bonus for me they add some chicken poo to the compost. Chickens can be in the garden free ranging successfully you just have to set boundaries with them. Just like with EVERTHING, without boundaries destruction will follow.
Thank you for sharing that! I'll be doing this also!
...and as with _mostly_ everything, if you give a little responsibility and respect then you _get_ it back, too! Not always from humans though, mind you! Great story, thanks for sharing.
Awesome! We live in Grizzly bear country and chickens are a big attraction for them. This coops compounds etc are should have heavy duty electric fencing. A safety note of the t-posts. I like to use a tennis ball to cover the exposed top end. Cut a small hole and just pop it on. If you want a muted color just spray paint it. The reason for the ball is to prevent becoming impaled on it should you trip and fall onto the post. Love your channel!
New chicken farmer here...this is the second video that I’ve seen with chicken tunnels...love the idea great space saver plus the chickens can run and jump in their coop area. Awesome and thank you for sharing. I’m getting ideas on having a tunnel throughout our backyard for them to free range. ✊🏾❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
Congratulations on your setup. You look set for the coming food shortages. Thanks for the free advice. I'll give you some back in return. Those black streaks on your roof are a bacteria called Gloeocapsa Magma and they eat the limestone and other minerals found in modern shingles. If you let it continue it can take 10 years off the life of your roof. I'd charge around $500 to $750 to clean your roof, but you or your husband can do it just like a professional by spraying a mix of bleach and either Dawn Ultra dish soap or Gain laundry detergent to help the bleach stick to the roof better. We use a big 12v pump and specialized sprayers and soaps, but a 2 gallon pump sprayer will do the job. Take straight household laundry bleach and a couple of tablespoons of soap and mix it in the sprayer and pump it up and spray directly on any parts that have the black growth. Get it good and wet and then let it sit. The rain will rinse it away after a few good downpours. Make sure you wear a good quality mask and goggles and try to do it on a calm overcast day. After a rain or 2 you can go back up and hit the spots that didn't quite die off if there are any. If you have sunglasses with polarized lenses you can see which areas will need additional spraying while you are doing the work. You can also use liquid pool shock and dilute it down 50/50 with water so it's around the same strength as regular bleach. It's a bit more economical that way since pool shock is 10% or 12.5% sodium hypochlorite as opposed to the typical laundry bleach which is around 5%. Pool shock usually costs a dollar or 2 more per gallon than laundry bleach, but goes twice as far. Make sure your bleach is at least 5% and fresh. It gets weaker over time. 8 gallons of pool shock should do the trick from what I could see of your roof.
I hope to see a clean roof on your house in a future video.
I can't wait to try this system in some of my gardens. I usually have to stop allowing my birds free range from mid-April to Sept. because they WILL scratch everything to smithereens and help themselves to anything they like. It is bad enough to have pheasants and quail dust bathing in the corn and squash, but they have taught the chickies to jump up for corn and other small grains, and I can forget about having lettuce and peas. This seems like a good plan to keep the chickens busy where I want them, and they will love the grasshoppers and weeds I scare up.
We have lots of hawks, eagles, turkey vultures, and a few owls around our place. It is common for us to see up to 5 Bald Eagles at one time in a couple of our trees. We moved last summer and our chickens stayed at our old house. We used to let our chickens out in the yard, but at this new place I think the new chicks we got this spring will just be lunch! I'll build a big run, lol.
You must live in Minnesota
@@camilojames1 No Washington, along the Skagit River
Crazy
dude you need a freaking AA gun for that many birds xD
You left your birds behind?
this is such a smart set up for ANYONE to have if you own chickens !! good job !
I will never forget the first time I saw a chicken eat a mouse. 🤯 Then, before I could even vocalize my shock it grabbed another mouse and just slurped it down. I was blown away! 😳
That's a good idea. And you can always change the shape of the tunnel if you wanted to give the chickens new scratching area and let the old areas rejuvenate.
We had one. The racoons learned that if they stood on the top of the arc, their weight would partially collapse it and they could reach the chickens inside, trapping them as they reached in with their grabby scratchy hands.
Hotwire would fix that pronto.
I've had raccoons in the past that figure it out they could grab the legs of the chickens through the knothole in the wood. They would grab the chicken's leg and then dismembered the chicken's leg off! A dead legless chicken on the floor of the coop in the morning. Thankfully that was an easy patch fix and Rocky the raccoon was never able to dismember any of my chickens again. I added Hotwire around my chicken coop and my garden.
Yeah unfortunately raccoons are way smarter than most realize they tend to figure out ways that we don't think of.
my uncle tried to raise pheasants in portable coops and the raccoons learned all they had to do was get the pheasants riled up, stick there hand through the wire and sooner or later a pheasant would run his beautiful retarded neck right into the dirty little coon paw. One quick yank, instant head snack. Since all pheasants want to do is run this could go on all night, and any that didn't get their brains sucked like the money tube at the bank might have run themselves to death for good measure.
@@julieanderson5184 Is Hotwire just electric fence, or something else?
@@shandor2522 hi, basically yes. You can get a strand of hot wire or a what they call a polywire which looks like a rope that has metal woven into it and then there are Hotwire net systems for chickens sheep goats pigs that sort of thing.
To make a very strong fertilizer put a big drum up on bricks/cinders so you can put a bucket under neat it, make it lean a bit forward so the drips fall in the bucket, make a small hole 3 fingers on the side of the drum up from the bottom and fill the drum with chicken manure and dead leafs , every time you need to fertilize the plants pour a bucket of water in the drum and let it drip out of the bottom hole in to the empty bucket.
Awesome, I'm sold, I bet this will be a god-send for dealing with my 2 annual grasshopper infestations. Soon as the rains get here thousands of grasshoppers from the fields swarm my gardens and landscapes.
I'm not sure how much they'll help with grasshoppers. I'm sure the chickens catch any they can, but grasshoppers get in my garden regardless.
@@thebeginnersgarden Honestly i chase down and kill the big grasshoppers, but I'm happy if they can go eat some of the teeny tiny grasshoppers so they can't grow up. Predators ended the free ranging/flock, so i need something ike this for the new flock I'm starting.
I'm fairly confident they'll help, They eat almost anything, I've had chicken's kill big field mice many many times, I was dumbfounded the first time i saw a chicken with a mouse in it's mouth, and laughing when i saw the rest of the flock chasing the chicken FOR the mouse. Chicken's are ambitious predators for their size.
Love that tunnel Brilliant! Thank you.
Until a couple years ago I had 70 plus hens and roosters that free ranged during the days and that included our garden. At night they went to their assigned roosts themselves (three separate roosts pens) as they were trained to do.
They ate plenty of bugs of course and some plants were damaged but mostly they went at the weeds. We did not loose enough veggie plants to stop them from free ranging.
I have the same system by accident! My next-door neighbor put up a fence about 30" from my existing fence. My hens found a gap in my fence and took to cruising up and down that space. I call it the Chicken Channel. I blocked off the open ends and made lazing areas for them. Bushes hide them and I put netting over the top. When they're in the Channel I know they're okay.
The zip ties are easy and work well but the sun will bake them and make them very brittle which means crafty fox and raccoons can rip them free and get in the smallest of openings.
I had to make some very sturdy animal proof runs and coops for my chickens and on any fence mending I use wire or steel zip ties.
I keep any sharp wire ends from sticking out which could snag and injure a chicken.
Also have to worry about digging underneath any fence or runs.
I always bend a 12” section of fencing or lay down and attach a carpet of fencing at the base of the runs or fence and bury it shallow topped with gravel to discourage digging.
The rain eventually helps the gravel to sink into the fencing with the soil and makes for a non friendly digging attempt.
I make some homemade tent pegs with thin ribar rods and drive them down 2’ deep in any section of run or fence that needs more ground support.
I had an extra pile of bricks from a decorative wall I built and lined the base of the coop area to keep diggers out.
One thing that is so important but very often overlooked that will greatly increase the lifespan of your coop is to take the time to apply flashing to any lumber that touches the ground.
Get a roll of flashing and mold it to your lumber first before putting it together.
Or…..you can use steel 2x4’s.
My biggest problems have been from fox and raccoons but if your chickens are free range and the local hawks find out they can deplete your flock very quickly.
I tried free ranging mine and once the hawks found out how easy it was they would hit them Hard.
What a fun idea, instead of fencing myself and my front door in and giving them 70 acres to roam, I could create some more boundaries with benefits. Well done, and thank you for sharing!
Finally a chicken 🐔🍗 advocate
A generation of baby 🐥🍼 chicks 🐔 will thank you
Great idea. I learned the hard way about letting the chickens into my garden area. There are dangers in the garden for chickens. Tomato plants are toxic and beans. A peacock is the only bird I've seen go through a garden and only eat insects and bugs. They don't touch the fruit or vegetables. A chicken damages the fruit or vegetable and eventually rots on the vine or bush.
My girls loved fresh pepper leaves. Almost destroyed my entire pepper plant row.
I enjoyed your video and I subscribed. Blessing and love from Helen in Ga.
Nice setup! You're hubby looks like a good carpenter.
I have had immense success fighting grasshoppers using guinea hens in combination with turkeys to patrol my garden and yards. Dont try too run guineas alone. They are impossible to manage that way. But when using turkeys, you can protect them from predators that typically strike during evening hours. The guineas dont want to be alone. When you herd the turkeys into the coop at night, the guineas will follow them in.
We have had problems with mink and dogs running amuck.
Good luck!
Your husband did an awesome job building the chicken pen, great ideas for the yard birds and your garden. love it!
Great idea! You have solved a problem I have with giving my girls space to range while safely protected from foxes, and birds of prey! Thank you so much.
G’day Heath Savage. An overhead screen or chicken fence may well flummox a hawk or eagle, but a mink or weasel will go right on through. So would a snake to get to eggs or chicks. And, it takes a pretty sly chickenmaster to out fox a fox. Maybe a dog or two tethered close by? They’re a good alarm system.
Chickens, like rabbits, are at the bottom of the food chain. Ask your local dog, fox, or coyote.
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@@jackvoss5841 Thanks. I have a dog who guards the girls. and they would only be in the tunnels for a few hours per day. Their run and coop are very secure, with kick-boards all around, double meshing and gravel.
This is fantastic! I’ve been trying to figure out how to have chickens in my small yard and this might be the way.
How does it work in the winter especially with snow?
birds normally dont freeze. they cuddle. the vent that the have allows moisture to flow rather than freeze. also i have much smaller coop and much more air flow. They still gave me eggs like crazy.
Poor chickens! Not free to run and explore! ..stupid tunnel with NO GRASS. So controlled and sanitized environment.. which is GOOD FOR YOU more than the poor chickens. Not ragging on you, but your STYLE of having chickens is bothersome.
I've been thinking about doing something similar for years. Glad to have stumbled on your channel... Beautiful perennial garden!
I had hawks attack my chickens but my rooster protected them. But I recently bought a black rooster with 5 black hens let them free range with my plymouth rock chickens and have had not one hawk come around I guess they mistake my black chickens for a crow lol but they are afraid to attack my chickens now. Who knew it works.
I like you storage area in the coop
I have a small greenbelt that wraps around our property on a small hill. So, I can't see (if I'm looking out the window) if a four-legged predator is coming to get my chickens. They have a huge coop and run, but in the evening the sun shines right into the run. So, I'll give these "chunnels" a try. Hopefully they'll be protected from four-legged creatures and aerial predators too while in these chunnels. I like your set up!
great coop set up, you've clearly thought that through.
Thankyou for this idea this is what im looking for GODBLESSED
I have owls, hawks, and an eagle hanging about. A massive owl killed one of my hens by trying to yank her through the wire on the pen. I had 2x3 welded wire with chicken wire over it, plus it's roofed for shade and thought it would be strong enough. Now I have a layer of rabbit wire/hardware cloth on the inside. If I was going to do this type of project, it would be costly.
JILL very good for your chickens. you can make them more comfortable when roosting by having a wide board as chickens cannot
grab a narrow board as small birds
Love your videos,… “Watching from Kentucky “ The Bluegrass State . But me and my wife work 50 to 60 hours a week .
When we where younger we only did the regular 40 hours. My Grandma give us 4 chickens and they lived for a long time .
But we was deep in Kentucky out in the country at that time, and every Predator that was around was crazy about Chicken 🍗
Urban gardener here - I watched this just to see what a chicken tunnel IS. *I keep trying to get some of the city farm movement people to rent out their chickens by the hour for pest control. *
Ducks are much better at pest control than chickens. Ducks will leave upur plants alone for the most part, chickens will eat anything.
How do you clean the tunnels? Or do you not need to?
I know very little about chicken farming, but your tunnel/run seems to allow them a lot of opportunity to not feel cooped up. They seem happy and their help with weeds is great.
I'm gonna tell my wife I came up with this idea! 🤣 Thanks! I'll tell her later, I promise!
Should have lock on box where hens are sitting on eggs,so raccoons can't lift top and murder your chickens.
Your husband is amazingly talented. Perfect coop. Love the color. Tunneling is brilliant. I think I am going to subscribe.
I definitely want a chicken tunnel! But I’m planning on making it a D shape, so hopefully I can prevent breaches
Good idea for temporary grazing. Have considered that in my garden as well, But overall I prefer them to roam around in yard and pasture where they have more to eat. I do have to fence around my tomatoes cause that is their favorite. I would have one main concern which is the barrel of water just filling once or twice a year? I don't like that idea. I am not sure that is healthy for them not having fresh water at least weekly.
when I was a kid we always got 200 chick's on the farm every spring.. the chickens , ran freely on the farm. We let them out ofvthe chicken coop in the morning and shut them up at night. never had a problem.
I liked your video, very interesting and looks easy to set up. I heard you mention that the water barrel only needs to be filled a couple of times a year. Do you have a problem with algae growing in the water? I'd love to do the same setup.
That's fantastic. Never thought of a "chicken tunnel". I need to think and see how I can make this work in my backyard. Thank you 💥💫🚀
This was a really great video. Thank you for making this available! I love your garden and yard design. I subscribed to the channel. :)
Great idea, I had actually been thinking about something like that to give our Schickens, all 6 in our backyard clubhouse and run some extra grazing area. I was thinking of like hamster tunnels only for Schickens!
Hey anybody know about how to make that water barrel thing for the chickens? I'm new to chicken raising and that looked convient
Clever. But you should figure a way to have their water change daily. Get some kind of float to auto refil a tray when it evaporates or they drink it down. Standing or stale water is a good way to get bacteria into your egg products.
Free range implies the chickens have access to
a large amount of food. Your chickens range on dirt. Hmmm.
If you make nesting boxes, will they always lay eggs there? Or do they still lay them in other places?
I live in a penthouse in NYC, why did I just watch this whole video?
Dreams! Someday maybe! :)
nice coop,I'm so stealing your ideas 😀🇺🇸
Nice job. I learned that chickens like flat ground so I was taught to put the roosting bars 2 by 4 on the flat edge facing up. They don't grip like birds on tree branches.
That's something I noticed too, and so I always give them flat planks for roosting on.
What are the measurements because I really love this and I would like to build it myself for my chickens as they need a new accessible chook pen
That's a chicken hotel suite🎶
Very clever ideas with the huge watering bucket and the tunnel with the dogs on the side of it! Thank you for this tour of your garden area!!
Would be clever if you put a roof that collected water.....
Nothing clever in this video
@@thenarrator1984An actual intelligent person would realise clever is subjective to one's own experience and knowledge. You are proof. STFU.
brilliant idea! Of course you cld do the otherway round. Protect / fence your (vulnerable) crops (e.g. sowing beds), and let the chickens free range. BTW, Small chicks are not able to "ruin" much in a vegetable garden.
I've seen it the other way, but it didn't protect the chickens from predators, especially the winged kind. The one guy had his like that and let them roam, but without the overhead protection, he was losing chickens. She set hers up for double duty.
Now I want a chicken tunnel. I need chickens first though.
Love the tunnels! I would also love to hear about the seat with large wheals on..
When those zip ties degrade, go get a pack of stainless steel zip ties at Harbor Freight.👍
I watched some time ago, plus 6 months back and today i just received funding for my little chicken project. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
It was great, thank you for your hard work dear friend for this great entertaining movie
Chicken wire is chicken proof but it's not predator proof
Love this! We have a lot of space but aren’t yet ready for a large area, plus they’re a little small and stray dogs are a big issue. Looks like a chicken tunnel is in order!
Love it, I was planning to do something similar for our garden once the house is built.
*I dont know what those chickens did but I hope they were convicted in a court of law.*
Your chickens would prefer ther roosts set higher and with the flat side up.
What do you call a chicken coup with 4 doors ?
A chicken sedan
That’s great. We made a small chicken tunnel for ours but I love the way you’ve got it all around your garden. Love it!
Tent pegs works for me, on my " oh I'll make a temp run here", also welded up a cage, 4x4x16 that has wheel barrow wheels on hinges, an a could of pipe handles, used chainlink, Google superstrut, it's used for running electrical in industrial building, lots of hardware available, it's cheap, also used it for a greenhouse, attach the covering with what's called " wiggle wire" here in Arizona wood get killed by the heat .
I think I would have cut it and rolled it and fastened it at the bottom to keep the chickens or predators from going under
Beautiful place you have there!
Might want to change that water more than twice a year.
I love this! I especially appreciate the info on the hawks. We have a lot of hawks bc we are in the central fly zone.
RE: Chicken Run… add mulch (and kitchen scraps) to the run. What the chickens don’t eat breaks down. In a year, dig down for top grade compost. Chickens turn and till it; and manure it as well.
Have you "retired" any garden friends for MEAT?Personally or has the husband taken care of that?
No, we haven't. They usually succumb to old age/natural causes, though we lost a couple to coyotes before we put this method into place.
RUclips has unfortunately been recommending me a lot of animal slaughter videos, so when I first read the title on the thumbnail, I thought it said “using chicken tonsils for pest and weed control” lol
lol! You never know!
Congratulations. Excellent video and instructions.
Well done.
The voice in the video was good and stable volume. I couldn't see the microphone.
If possible please let us know how the voice/video was recorded. Thank you.
You look nice.. love the green.. I love your chickens.. this was a kool video thank you for sharing.
Wow!!! Thank you so much for the tour. I think you have great set up. I would love to try something like this when I move to my property. Amazing!!!
I would fence the garden and let the chickens roam free.
That was actually pretty good. I've never seen this before....Very Cool.
This is totally awesome I'm need to do this for my chickens this year 🥺🙏
Great looking garden and chicken tunnels. I remember many years ago my Dad was having lots of trouble with the Fox and Coyotes coming in at night walking off with a chicken sometimes. He found that they would dig under the fence to get them so what he did was dig out the entire area for a new pen and he buried heavy duty chicken wire under 3 inches of dirt and reseeded it before building the new pen where the buried wire connected to the wire running up the walls. Those Fox and Coyotes tried many times to dig under the pen but were stopped each time they ran into that buried wire and left a little blood when they couldn't dig through it.
Thanks for sharing! This is ingenious!!
I don't have chickens or a garden but enjoyed your video immensely. Some folks watch these types of informative ones for entertainment - that would be me. ❤ the chickens!
Just a word about people wanting chickens for eggs. 1st - provide several small boxes with a flap to cover one side. They tend to lay their eggs in darker spaces. If you find them laying eggs where you don't want them to, pick up the eggs as soon as you find them and if where they did lay was also dark but not in the nest, find a way to bring light into that area. Once eggs are laid if you allow the hens to brood they will stop laying during that time, so harvest all of your eggs daily. Layers tend to lay their eggs early in the morning. Do these things and you have better luck with egg production.
This is brilliant!!!! My brother and I are thinking about putting some in my back yard right now. This is an awesome idea. And Hotwire is something we’ve done before anyway. !!! 👍👍👍👍
The chicken tunnel is a lovely idea!
I usually don't comment on videos, but for some reason,,I really dug ur video. nice job.
Electric fence! Yes! Those Rabbits... ok... so now... I need to find some fencing kit
Great video 👍🏻 👏 👍🏻 👏
Great channel 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I live in LA, we had an average city home backyard and we had chickens. Had no clue what were.doing at first, their chicken coop was the garage!😆 We lost a few chickens to birds of prey, which we were surprsied because we were in the middle of the city! So we had a chicken coop made for them to sleep and lay eggs. It was an awesome time! Sadly, all my girls got old and stop laying eggs. So my mom's friend made Salvadorean tamales out of them. Some day soon, I want to have chickens again. But this time around, keep 1 of the roosters to fertilize the girls so we can keep having chicks.
Did you remove your vegetation prior to putting the tunnels up? Thank you for sharing! This is the perfect solution to our current dilemma.
No, we actually didn't. The chickens pecked them clear in short order!
@@thebeginnersgarden That is exactly what I was hoping for ! Thank you so much for your video and reply😀
When i build my chicken run. Weeds where waist high i just weedeatted where i needed to work about 3 months later its bear dirt
@@thebeginnersgarden how do you clean the tunnels? Or do you not need to?