Landscaping around chicken coop

As backyard poultry farms gain in popularity, find the coop that works for you, whether you live in the country or in tighter, urban spaces.

Discover the best shade plants for chickens to make your chicken coop both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Choose from a variety of chicken-friendly plants that thrive in the shade, creating a perfect landscape for shade and forage. By incorporating coop-friendly plants into your outdoor space, you can provide treats for chickens while lowering your chicken feed bill. Explore herbs that are safe for chickens and grow around your chicken coop effortlessly.

Brooke and Steve Giannetti built the backyard chicken coop of their dreams, and now they're sharing their tips on how to build a chicken coop in your own backyard.

Is it possible to have a pretty yard with flowers around the chicken coop? With the recent addition of the backyard farmhouse chicken coop, I have added some landscape gardening around the coop. Using galvanized containers and some perennial shade plants, this has become an area to enjoy.

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.

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.

Many chicken owners are curious about the best plants to grow around chickens. Learn some of the best plants you can grow and wild harvest.

I did a fair amount of research before building our chicken coop. I wanted to try to correct mistakes that others made and benefit from this amazing world of sharing that we have. Good news is – I did benefit greatly! One of the BEST decisions that we made based off of research and testimonials […]

I love chickens! And I love plants! But how do you successfully combine the two? No one wants to spend time and money at a nursery only to have their backyard flock consume everything, but we also don’t want our chickens to be in an ugly dirt wasteland (or even worse, get poisoned). In this […]

“Do you have plans I can purchase for your coop?” I currently do not have plans for sale on our coop. We modified purchased plans from Twelve On Main and as of right now I still point t…