How To Keep Grass With Chickens - Grow Grass For Chickens With Grazing Box

How to keep grass with chickens around your yard. Grass for chickens for grass fed chicken feed. This is a how to video on how we make grazing boxes for our pet chickens. We don't grow much grass in our area of California, so we build these boxes and plant grow grass or other micro greens for our chickens to enjoy. The idea is that your chickens will not be able to pull the roots and ruin what is growing by scratching and pecking. They are only able to eat what rises above the hardware cloth, and the food will just continue to grow on it's own, simply by just watering.
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[@champnomnom7764]

8:57 didn't know they could be so cute lol

[@ironman-fw4xx]

I prefer chickens over dogs.

[@peachycream]

I love seeing people drinking tea on videos. ❤️😂 It always makes me want a cup!! I'm building these. Absolutely!!!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Awesome! We hope you do!

[@kristacadogan2863]

This idea is awesome I didn't even know this was a thing definitely going to add this to our new-build. Thank you guys for sharing your journey by the way this is awesome.

[@EnjoyThisMomentDIY]

This was awesome and just what I wanted to learn how to do!

[@princearthur4946]

Excellent idea!

[@taniajuedes7621]

Been looking into this for a while. I've seen other ideas. Yours is definitely an easy solution to others I have seen. Keeps the mini dinos from scratching everything up and having to rotate and replant. I love it! Thank you so much.

[@AKenny882]

Brilliant idea

[@carolinegray7510]

Such a great idea!

[@amber5547]

Thank you for your great video and tool & supply list at the end, very good tutorial I can make for my chickens and ducks to enjoy. I love that your chickens were with you watching the grass seeds being planted 😄

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you very much! Let us know how it works out for you. Our chickens spend most of their day eating out of these lol. And they always follow me around and want to be a part of everything I am doing

[@DanBrown96]

Great idea. Thanks mate.

[@ms.lizzysPlace]

I love this!!!! Thank you for sharing

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you very much! Our girls love this, we haven't had to turn it over in like 8 months, grass still growing perfectly fine and they spend all day on it!

[@Mr_Shamo_Official]

Very smart idea bro!

[@Michael-kx8un]

Love this, thanks for the tutorial.

[@BockBockBouquet]

You are so welcome! Hope you try it out

[@dianealm743]

ThankYou so much! Can’t tell you how much my animals need this!!!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you! Hope it is working out for you if you built them one!

[@ashleypayne6921]

Nice quick project. Definitely going to use this for our chickens, ducks and bunnies!

[@BockBockBouquet]

It keeps them so busy everyday! Great boredom buster. They love it

[@tinaharris7382]

Awesome 😎 Thank you!!!

[@ironman-fw4xx]

Genius!

[@pamcarter6595]

Super .. and looks so easy to do. 💜

[@BockBockBouquet]

It is and keeps our chickens busy all day! We hope you give it a try 😊

[@katharinecox5200]

I've been wanting to make this for my chickens. Thanks for tis video

[@BockBockBouquet]

Go for it!

[@abugman]

Thank You!

[@BockBockBouquet]

No problem, my pleasure! Good luck on your set up

[@WelcometoChickenlandia]

NICE!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you Miss President of Chickenlandia! We love your channel and you have such a cute flock

[@eppsurbanhomesteadfarm]

Awesome 😎

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you very much!

[@angiea8022]

Awesome!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you! Hope you try it =]

[@michelegiannini6656]

Awesome

[@osamaal-janabi3230]

Great idea thanks

[@BockBockBouquet]

Welcome, these keep our flocks busy all day!

[@d.b.7444]

Thank you for this! We moved to a farm and sadly the previous owner did not take care of her property, there’s no grass mostly harsh weeds. Where the chickens are kept is nothing but dry sandy dirt. I’m sure going to try this.

[@BockBockBouquet]

thank you! We live in the dessert and during a California drought, this works like a charm. Green grass still growing very lush after like 5 months!

[@nadoosh60]

Thanks for sharing this Great idea. Can i furnish the coop with grass and put shield on it?

[@booswalia]

If you put the hardware cloth on the ground and then walk on it as you roll it out, it flattens pretty good.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks for the tip! We have been using weights now lol

[@florcedillo7964]

Burn the wood and put oil. I put cooking oil. Too last longer

[@BockBockBouquet]

Great tip! Thank you

[@barbaraguinn2522]

Can use pure Linseed oil to preserve wood. It is non toxic and natural. Will not harm chickens, plants or humans.

[@davidthompson9359]

Another great video... How has this idea stood up over the last 2+ years and couldn't you get by using 1/2 lumber?

[@ethanpullman6727]

This is great ... Just what I was looking to do in my run. Great solution. What size hardware cloth (the openings)? .25? .5? I would think smaller would be better since they need to walk on it?

[@movienaut]

Fantastic construct and I will definitly use it. Only one question regarding size. My Coop has a chicken yard within a cage and the area is about 7x3,5 meters. How big should the Grazing box be, with that size?

[@critter4662]

I have no grass in my yard, living in a desert will do that so this is perfect to get my ladies some greens!

[@BockBockBouquet]

We are desert dwellers as well and this helps us so much!

[@dylanvandehey4219]

In description can you put list of how manny boards cut at?

[@ricksolosailor5804]

Great tutorial! Do you have any idea how many square metres are required for each bird? What other feed do the birds get each day?

[@BockBockBouquet]

This is just a treat and something for them to do during the day to peck at. We feed our flock chicken feed layer feed available to them all day free choice

[@shellyneal7466]

I too live in the desert. I will make one of these this weekend . Question, I built my girls coup off the ground so they have shade, however there is an old tree stump there. I no they want to dig and get cool, but between hard soil and stump they have a difficult time. I was thinking about getting a big bag of organic soil and place it there so they can snuggle down into it. Any thoughts? I let them out a lot, but for days when they get stuck in run I want them to be comfortable.

[@mking3219]

Good idea,btw man glitter isnt a mess

[@BockBockBouquet]

Haha thanks!

[@alexvdbroeknz]

Good idea. Do you think it would work if I pegged chicken wire straight into the ground?

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks! I think they wouldn't scratch it out of the ground, but they could still chew it right out and de-root it. This works like a charm, currently going on like 4-5 months and the grass is still very full

[@christyn55]

How often do you water the seeds after you plant them? I’m horrible with gardening or growing anything

[@deborahmartin9672]

Great video thankyou,, is there a particular grass seed you use please ?

[@BockBockBouquet]

We just use the seed from lowes or Home Depot. The sun/shade

[@nicholasnapier2684]

That would be a good idea because you could use Chia seed or amaranth seed.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Sometimes we do sprout greens 😊😊

[@Codenamelumiere]

They don't get bumblefoot from trying to scratch on the mesh?

[@robford2122]

Do you think I could used quarter inch hardware cloth instead of half inch?

[@BockBockBouquet]

I would think you sure can! As long as the grass or sprouts can fit and grow through it. I would prefer the half inch though because the hens beaks can fit through it a little more and they can grab bites deeper down

[@gerrymatheson4020]

At 0:40 there are 3 chickens in the frame. One's a Barred Rock...what are the other two?

[@BockBockBouquet]

To the left is a mottled lavender orpington, and to the right is our olive egger ( silverudd cross with Marans) even our barred rock is mixed with an ameraucana, so she is a barred Easter Egger =]

[@Chunk_Kelly]

Cocksparrer shirt and chickens?!?! SUBSCRIBED.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Hell yeah brother. Punk rock family here. Sparrer is one of my favorite bands, we’ll get to catch them live in the UK in August at Rebellion Fest

[@Chunk_Kelly]

@@BockBockBouquet right on! They’re some of my favorite people. I used to work at Pirates Press so they’re practically family. Colin has rescue chickens so if you run into him at rebellion he’ll talk your ear off about them.

[@BockBockBouquet]

That’s awesome! So you must be from the East Bay area? Very good bands on Pirates Press. I’ve met Skip at some of the fests he’s done. I play in a band called Broken Cuffs, check us out on IG, Spotify. We get to play Rebellion for the first time this year, I sure will try and talk to him about chickens ❤️

[@Chunk_Kelly]

@@BockBockBouquet I’m actually from Alaska, but spent 25+ years working security gigs and putting on shows in the lower 48, west coast mostly. I worked for Skip when I was living in SF. That’s dope you’re playing rebellion! I’ll check out the band for sure.

[@CR-tj4ig]

Yeah. The punk shirts caught my eye too when I started looking for chicken videos. Ex-skinhead here. Used to play drums in an Oi band from Atlanta called Terminus City. (Check out the album Justice Isn’t Always Fair on Spotify if you’re so inclined.) Saw Cock Sparrer in Atlanta a long time ago. We played with a lot of great bands like the Business, Oxymoron, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys, Anti-Heros… Calmed down a bit in my old age though. 😉

[@boboscurse4130]

How often do you have to refill the soil?

[@BockBockBouquet]

Maybe once or twice a year! It really does well when you water it daily.

[@sarahchurchwell3643]

is chicken wire not a good option?

[@kakihentz2505]

We let our older flock out for a few hours every evening to free range but we stay with them. We have a fenced in area w/ bird netting over the top for our younger flock so they can free range a little everyday. Making a grazing box is a great idea too... Here's how... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKfChIevfrCqjLM

[@melitageivett2084]

Lowe’s doesn’t do that. At least not the one I work at.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

Take another thing you can probably do with that would even though it’s not treated do you like the Japanese way torch the wood…

[@BockBockBouquet]

Very smart

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Sawdust is compost!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Great tip! ☺️

[@garylester8621]

Chicken beak injuries skyrocket after new type of grazing box hits youtube.

[@cherylhouston2234]

i bet it fills up with poop pretty fast!

[@BockBockBouquet]

LOL it can, but we rinse it off and it doesn't get too bad =]