Right. I think I have (hopefully) sorted my hen vs veg garden problem!
At the bottom of my garden, I have 3 raised vegetable patches. My free range poultry have not been interested in the bottom of the garden until a few weeks ago, just after I weeded, dug over, raked and sowed seeds/planted veg plants! They loved the freshly raked fine, (if a bit stony!) soil, which made excellent dust baths for hens. The geese were partial to the cabbage plants and after a relaxing dust bath, the chickens enjoyed scratching up my variety of seeds!
OK, try again! I constructed a fence ('fence' used in the loosest of terms!), mainly out of old gates and bits of string. Baring in mind our garden is very big and well established (jungle like!), I thought the birds would find other interesting places to peck and poke rather than squeeze through small gaps and over rickety gates. Wrong!!
So, I now have achie arms and copious splinters from trying, yet again to chicken proof my - now rather expensive- veg. I have put up chestnut fencing, which has stakes that are close together and are too small for hens to squeeze through plus it is wobbly and too unstable for them to 'hop' over the top. I have pinned down net curtains over the seed beds and put voile on sticks with clothes pegs over the sprouts and sweeds. Ha! Now get through that lot!!
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