Our flock doesn’t bother the garden when they free range. It’s surrounded by 5’ high corral panels, but the mesh fencing around that is only 2’ high. They’ve never tried to hop over it or fly over the 5’ rails. Once this winter, I left the gate open and a bunch of them wandered into the dormant garden. I went in and shooed them out, but our less than sharp Spitzhauben hen saw them —on the outside of the fence—and tried to follow them from the inside, now going away from the gate. She never tried to go up over the 2’ mesh. It was hard enuf to get her to go south to the gate when the others were heading north. September photo, everything was dying.
