Well, I hate to say that for us it did not. Maybe the roosters are still too young, maybe roosters do not scratch as well as chickens, but to extend our berry garden the clearing that these roosters did is not enough. As you can see on the picture the patch in front of the chicken run is where they where and cleared the ground, but grass started growing again immediately, so this is not good enough to extend our berry garden on.
As a last resort of trying to get rid of the couch grass, we are now trying out covering the ground with a silage tarp. I am not sure how long this would have to stay on. The sun burns extremely here so, on the black tarp, I hope that the heat will help killing the weeds, especially the rhizome grass. I would like to plant raspberries and strawberries in the fall.
Beautiful Chaos 