Chicken Moving Day

I have spent the past few days getting the garden ready to put the chicken coop and run on it. I put down compost and then added leaves from the yard. Today was moving day. Chuck and I put the chickens on the garden. We will spend the winter moving them across the garden so they can scratch up all the bugs and weed seeds and eat them. In the meantime, they scratch in the compost and yard leaves. In the spring we will rototill everything under and start the growing season with a naturally fertilized garden that was all free. .

It is also fun to watch the chickens play in the leaves. They jump into the piles just like kids. They then pop up their heads. scratch a little and then jump in again. They can provide quite the entertainment. Who needs TV when you have chickens to watch?