When designing a chicken-friendly garden around your chicken coop, it's important to choose plants that are safe and beneficial for chickens. Chickens can be quite destructive to plants because they scratch, peck, and sometimes eat them. However, some plants can provide chickens with shade, entertainment, and a nutritious supplement to their diet. Visit our blog for safe plants around your chicken coop.

Chain link fence put on top, we added a cool shade tarp that covers the entire top. That help tremendously with the intense Texas summers

Shade ideas in the chicken coop. Using patio umbrellas to provide shade and protection in the chicken coop.

Chicken coop Post Install and Shade Sail

Chickens can adapt to most weather fluctuations, with the exception of heat. Here's how to keep your chickens cool when it's hot outside.

Chickens are a very Vashon thing. So many people here have their own flocks--I know of at least four flocks all within a rooster's crow of our house. We've been working on adding some play structures to our coop to keep our girls entertained.

We use shade cloth on the back part of the run since we don't have a lot of natural shade near the coop. Drops the temperature by 10-15 degrees. Perfect for our hot summers!

In this article, I'm sharing a few of the odd planting methods I use to keep plants growing in, around, and over my chicken coop. Growing the chicken-friendly plants, flowers, and shrubs in my chicken run prevents erosion, promotes flock health, and provides supplemental feed.

My husband built this to keep the rain off the chicken feed blogged