On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:21:36 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO
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"martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:24:22 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO
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My free range
chickens cause no problems at all. I would expect chickens kept in a run
to
kill any plants by their scratching and digging dust hollows.

even the nettles?

I only know two people who keep chickens in a run (most around me have free
range chickens) and their chickens seem to have a scorched earth policy.
Mind you, I do not know if they had nettles in the first place.

During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large
garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left.
--
Martin