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How to mainatin lawn safely with chickens

Poyce
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How to mainatin lawn safely with chickens

Hi, we've recently got two chickens which free roam our backyard. We've also recently had what appears to be lawn worms or bugs in our lawn. There is quite a few wasps hovering and burrowing into the couch lawn. What are the best lawn care products (fertilisers/weed killers etc) safe for chickens. In particular something which can kill lawn bugs with no harm to my chickens? 

Jewelleryrescue
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Re: How to mainatin lawn safely with chickens

Hi  @Poyce 

 

I dont recommend any poisions  or weed killers on the lawn grubs or anything  else while you have chickens there possibly give them a holiday or confine them to the chook pen for a month or two if you do use any thing.  Chickens eat  all those sort of bugs so will get sick.

 

Or you can  let the chickens do what they are  brillant at and thats eating and scrounging for fresh  garden  bugs. You  have two insect eating machines there  let them loose :smile:  See if the  bugs start disappearing.

 

The wasps are probaly after mud to  build nests else where.

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