If you love chickens and have some roaming around your yard (and gardens), you may be wondering:
What shrubs are safe for chickens?
Is it okay for them to be eating this kind of shrub?
As I’m sure you have found out they’ll try to eat anything they can, whether you want them to or not. You’re in luck, below is a list of shrubs that are all safe for your chickens, because even gardens that are scavenged by chickens deserve to be beautiful.
Dogwood
Arctic Fire® Red and Yellow and Arctic Sun® add great color to your landscape in all seasons due to their brightly colored stems that pop in the winter and green foliage with white blooms in the spring.
Barberry
Many types of barberry are all chicken safe, including Sunjoy Mini Maroon®, Sunjoy Sequins®, Sunjoy® Citrus! Another great feature to help deter chickens is that they have thorns, a chicken is not going to want to mess with a plant with thorns.
Juniper
TORTUGA® Juniper provides a great low mound of green foliage, perfect for the most difficult locations where you still want some green.
Hibiscus
Dark Lavender Chiffon®, Blue Chiffon®, and Paraplu Pink Ink® are beautiful pops of color to add to your garden. They benefit from yearly fertilization and your chickens can help by creating and spreading their own natural fertilizer while they free range around this shrub.
Viburnums
Whether you are looking for bright white blooms or a pop of color, there are over a dozen varieties of this shrub to complete your garden. Add white with some Yin® or Yang® or maybe some pink with Sweet Talker® or even some with colorful fruit like Glitters & Glows or Brandywine™.
Roses
Such a beautiful addition to your garden and they even come with their own self-defense mechanisms – thorns! Those will help keep the chickens away!
2 Bonus Chicken Safe Shrubs
The great smell of these shrubs may attract your chickens, so they might enjoy eating this one a little bit more – but it can still be a beautiful addition to your garden.
For more on keeping your plants safe – check out “12 tips to help chicken-proof your garden.”
