Garden preppping with chickens and feed

Hello eveyone
I'm thinking about prepping my vegetable garden with chickens. The chicken will be placed in en chicken tractor. But if i give my chickens food this will sprout and causing weed problems in my small garden.
Anyone have a suolution?
Tom

Welcome Tom. Slightly heat the feed in an oven or grind it up in a hand grinder.  Sometimes we have to do that with amaranth seed. Amaranth will cover my garden if not.

Hi Tom,
If you are feeding whole grain food or weeds with seeds, then it could certainly add to the seed bank. While I used chickens to prep one of my gardens (and will hopefully again), it is not perfect and there are some things to keep in mind.

Justin Rhodes used to use his chickens to do that, and has switched over to just tarping because he has better success for the amount of work. I personally don't like the idea of tarping, but you can't argue with the results. When I put the chickens in for a short while they knocked things down and scratched it up... except the big weeds. Those were still there. If I moved the chickens at that point, I would still need to go in and remove all the large weeds. I left them long enough to even up root the big weeds and get all the green stuff out (scorched earth style). I was left with a bug free, weed free, well fertilized... and yet extremely hard packed soil. I had to go through and chop it up with a hoe in order to plant in it. I think it was also a bit hot because the manure only sat for a couple weeks. I think if I could have covered it over with wood chips and let it sit for 2 months, it probably would have been great loose soil underneath, but because of my time frame it just changed the work I was doing. Instead of weeding, I was chopping dirt.

Would I do it again? Yes. Would I be more careful about my timing and expectations? Yes. Would a pig provide some of the same or better services? Probably. Would tilling it up, waiting 2 or 3 weeks and tilling it again also provide a prepped bed? Yes.

There are many different ways to do things, we just need to know what will best fit out timeframe, lifestyle, and beliefs.

Boil their feed, they will thank you for it as well.

It's from justins channel i did get the idea. Indead every method have good and down sides. But because i love chickens and breed with chicken this method could be a good option. Maybe are layer pellets an option. A gag of normal chicken feed cost me about 10 euro, layer pellets around 13-14 euro, both 20 kilogram. Woodchips is between 15 and 30 euro per cubic meter in bulk, and i do think to expensive in Belgium. Maybe the soil quality is better with woodchips, but chickens do remove the pests in a garden. And feeding garden/ kitchen waste makes chicken keeping even cheaper.
Just to be sure, layer pellet can it sprout in the garden?

Hi Tom,
None of the layer pellets that I have seen can sprout. I spread mine right on the ground and have no problems. All the pellets I have seen have been ground into powder and then formed into a pellet... no whole seeds to germinate.