Chicken pasture gate brick stop
It seems like old
chimney bricks have hundreds of uses.
I wedged these together
between the 2 gate posts of the chicken pasture in an effort to discourage Lucy from trying to
dig her way under in order to help herself to any future scraps that
might get tossed that way.
Luckily she fully understands
that chickens themselves are off limits. It's just the delicious food
scraps that bring out the bad girl in her.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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It can be good to pave a few feet on either side of the gate with bricks, too.
Gates are high traffic areas, so they tend to end up bare and muddy. Paving makes them a bit tidier and less of a slip hazard. It also makes them even more secure against burrowing/digging predators.