My daughter used to say that chickens were evil…
I never really believed her until we purchased and raised these pesky Golden Comets!
It’s planting time, so I fenced off the garden area and fenced off where the “diabolical-biologicals” were. Our other flock, a mixture of Black Austral-Orps, White Rocks, Bard Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons and other brown egg layers… further up the yard – in part of the orchard, are content to roam about inside their movable poultry netting, and have been for over 2 years. Never a problem with them at all. They could care less about the garden – there is plenty to eat on the ground under the fruit trees…
Not so with the Golden Comets. They go out of their way to “break out” of their “confinement” – and they rummage through everything looking for a square meal. They get out of the movable poultry netting, the poultry wire fence to hold them at bay, and through the poultry wire fence around the garden and into the garden – and then they eat the yummy leaves off of the freshly planted “you name it”!
First the tomato plants, then the sweet potatoes… And they come down to the house and dig up the flower beds next to the sidewalk! I come home to a HUGE mess to sweep off of the sidewalk – straw, mulch, dirt, anything loose in the beds is scattered helter-skelter, everywhere.
Of course, I can’t complain about the delicious eggs they leave us.
–Pat