2.close & plant your chicken run in the spring. spring is a great time to completely close off access to your chicken run and relocate chickens during the daylight hours (free-range your chickens or place them in a tractor to till garden beds). if your hens exit their coop via the run, you can build a chicken tunnel to limit their access.. use 2-8 weeks each spring as an opportunity to plant. What destroys grass is the high nitrogen content in fresh chicken poop. in the small confines of a chicken run, the swift layering buildup of chicken poop smothers and chemically burns the grass, obliterating anything growing in a new run within a week. alternatively, a small amount of chicken poop is an effective fertilizer.. Chicken manure is a high-nitrogen organic material, and oat grass – unlike many plants- is not only able to tolerate high-nitrogen soil, but is able to absorb some nitrogen from the soil, lowering the amount of nitrogen in coop-run runoff..
Last year we built a nice, big run for our chickens, to protect them from the hawks and foxes that unfortunately picked off most of our free-range flock.it was full of grass and so nice to have them foraging around in without the worry of being attacked. unfortunately, it took about a week for them to completely destroy all vegetation in their yard, and they were down to bare dirt.. Chickens, generally, will not hang out in the coop. they go into the coop to lay eggs, drink and eat, and to roost at night. if you have a garden, you'll want a chicken run so the chickens don't eat your garden produce and plants. they love pea plants, so unless you plant some for them, you'll want a chicken run.. Our chicken coop and small run are currently on a concrete pad – we converted a dog kennel and chain-link fencing into our chickens’ home. so we didn’t have grading issues or a dirt floor to worry about, because the concrete pad is raised above the rest of the surrounding grass..
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