Shade for chickens

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.

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.

A dust bath is essential for killing lice and mites - tiny parasites that can seriously harm your chickens. Here's how to make one in two minutes.

Shade Trellis for the Chicken Coop, a post from the blog Gentleman Homestead, written by Mike on Bloglovin’

Pallet shade and flying predator cover

Try implementing some of these easy tricks to keep chickens cool & make the heat more bearable for your hens. Summer heat doesn't have to = miserable hens.

No one wants their chickens to get ill from heat exhaustion. That’s why learning how to keep chickens cool in the summer heat is important.

Chicken coop Post Install and Shade Sail

SPROUTING GRAINSIt is winter. In some areas, this means that the world is a lovely shade of pavement.Here in