Chicken proof plants ideas please

Since taking on another 4 hens,ive had to reshuffle my hens in 3 differant coops&runs so they are all happy which means ive ended up with 5 free ranging on the garden as their run isnt too big to lock them in all day.I can cage the flower beds i have already come the spring growth but is there any plants i can grow that they would not eat??thanks julie x

 

Hmmm. Monkey puzzle trees?

 

Goldenrod (Solidago). Horseradish. Nettles.

About the only plants I've found to be chicken proof in over 30 years of gardening and poultry keeping.

Wouldn't make much of a bed, but on the other hand, given those three plants it wouldn't take much looking after either would it?

 

My warrens have eaten the nettles at bottom of garden ..i think maybe i will have to buy more flowering shrubs,theyve not been near my roses yet

 

I may have just been lucky but for some strange reason my chooks don't touch purple leaved plants...i experimented with a couple of Heucheras ...'purple palace' and a green one both next to each other and the green one is no more but they never touched the other...Same with Sambucus Nigra and dark leaved Astillbes and a black Dahlia....

 

Actually loli they havnt bothered with my green leaved heucheras or ferns as yet but im wondering is it a matter of time,they are near the geraniums so theyve been digging through them instead.. i suppose it really is only a matter of time till the good stuff they prefer runs out x

 

Don't they instinctively leave poisonous plants alone?

 

Yes i believe they do Clue....saying that, i did hear that Rhubarb leaves are dangerous but try telling that to my Chooks,they love them