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can someone please tell me why this is?
Our chickens pretty much decimated their grassed area (25 square feet approx) within 3 weeks. I only have 3 chickens.
I have been to several animal petting places with the children where there are lots of chickens and the grass is always still there. No scrapping signs at all. Eveb in places where they have similar sized runs and same amount of chickens.
I do not understand why my chickens are so obsessed with it! Is it a breed thing? They are hybrid layers. Would pure breeds do it less?
It's a mystery to me how there is always grass for them everywhere else we see chickens but not here!
Any thoughts? Do I just have crazy ones?!
Our chickens pretty much decimated their grassed area (25 square feet approx) within 3 weeks. I only have 3 chickens.
I have been to several animal petting places with the children where there are lots of chickens and the grass is always still there. No scrapping signs at all. Eveb in places where they have similar sized runs and same amount of chickens.
I do not understand why my chickens are so obsessed with it! Is it a breed thing? They are hybrid layers. Would pure breeds do it less?
It's a mystery to me how there is always grass for them everywhere else we see chickens but not here!
Any thoughts? Do I just have crazy ones?!
First they eat the grass and then they scratch it up to get to the worms and grubs underneath. I have started to give them a fenced area and move it around. The grass has started to grow in the areas where they were the week before. The enclosed run has no hope of ever growing grass again though.
What helps is they have access to the virtually the whole back garden. (about 100ft long)
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about!! 
but in the yard there's a large area that would normally grass up a bit as there's a load of mud and muck under a load of trailer/wood/landie axel and the laydees love it no chance of grass there this year 
.We're considering popping something down on just a section of their run as they don't get out to free range as much in the summer due to having crops growing.But there's no way I'd cover the whole run in it...a chook needs to scratch as much as it needs fresh grass available.
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