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Sure do, you keep wild life out of your garden, by building a cage and putting the garden in the cage.

Be sure to thank your neighbor, as the chickens are eating bugs, eggs and weed seeds.

How did it go last year?

Did they bother the garden?

I would turn the soil while they are in the digging / eating mood and let them eat away.

You might ask the neighbor to pen them until your plants are strong enough to survive.

You will want to plant extra seeds, so more survive.......a danger for me, as I couldn’t bare to thin, when too thick, unless they could be transplanted.

I have heard that 3 or 4 foot pieces of old water hoses, in curves, like a snake would keep the birds out of the garden.

You might put up sticks with something like kite string strung on them, at chicken height, and then put something shiny on the string, like the silver mylar, from some of the inner packages of candy and foods, so the light will catch and flash on the silver, make the silver as long as you can, just a once through knot around the string, so it will move and be alive.

Tinfoil /aluminum foil, etc. might work, so start saving your used tinfoil.

But then I tried using can lids in my fig tree to keep the birds from eating the fruit and it did not work, these birds are so hungry for fruit, that they eat, until they cannot fly and you can almost touch them, they are so tired and sleepy from all the eating.

You could put the kids to making those twirly things on a stick.

Laughing as you haven’t a clue to what I think a twirly is and I haven’t the faintest memory of the name.

I think of them as a piece of shiny/bright colored paper or plastic, with 4 cuts, coming in from the corners ‘/’ at an angle, the the point is brought to the center and a nail is through the 4 corner and it will twirl in the wind.............some of the soda bottles shoud work and made into a twirly bird.

I can never bear to throw out the clear plastic that is in a bacon package, that rigid base that it rests on, as it works for cutting patterns of, as for marking quilt scraps to cut, etc.

You need Grandpa Ira’s little poodle, one of those that is about a foot high.

If he was milking the dog kept the other animals away from him and if the chickens got in the garden, grandpa would say:

“Bear Dog, those chickens are bothering me in the garden” and off went Bear Dog and away went the chicken.

Bear Dog never hurt a flea, but you better not “bother Grandpa”.