Help needed for planting suggestions

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MORNING! First post here so bare with me - desperation has set in as Hubby now wnats to start the replacement planting in our back garden after it was devistated by my four sussex hens at the end of last summer when I thought it would be fine to leave them out of their run completely free range for few weeks! BIG MISTAKE! They are usually kept in a large(ish) run and coop, but as I was home for few weeks i thought it would be lovely for them to be out so that my 3 yr old, the dog and the cats could wander around with them - both her and the 'girls' loved it.

Hubby took a differnet view! Anyway, the big girls are now confined to quaters unless we are out there with them (usually sunday afternnons, and probably summer evenings).

HOWEVER, at the end of last summer in a fit of I'm not sure what, I bought 6 mixed pekin bantum eggs from Ebay (you can get ANYTHING from ebay!) four out of six hatched under my constantly broody wyandott bantum (Winnie) and we now have four lovely pekin's (Blue, Pickle, Spot and Arnie) as well as Winnie free ranging the garden - approved by hubby as long as I can come up with some plants that they wont dig up or eat completely.

My next post will probably be how to quieten a rooster as Arnie is crowing full strength right now!!
SO.. HELP needed please!!??
 
i find pekins don't do that much damage (except they kill the grass with their poop) due to them being little and the leg feathering i have mixed shrubs planted and they tend to just scratch around under them mostly looking for juicy morsels
 
Great, that's encouraging - Hubby took me out to buy shrubs this afternoon, so hopefully the plants will be ok - just have to keep the sussex girls locked up :cry:
 
I've got 4 Pekins, and so far they haven't done much damage to the garden - they're out in it all day. The only thing they killed was a delphinium, at first I thought great as they were eating all the slugs, but then they got carried away and ate the plant too. I've got mallow, catmint, alchemilla, rosemary, lavendar and hardy geraniums in their favourite flower bed and those were fine. I've only had them since July though, so I'm waiting to see what they do when the perennials pop the new shoots out.
 
I've got Rhubarb on my list of 'will not destroy' plants and then the other day, I had two emails from people saying their chooks ate their rhubarb leaves!

Any one else found this?
 
rhubarb leaves are a snail's favourite food,they will hibernate/hide in the leaves,maybe the chooks found a snail store and got a bit carried away.
 
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