(Courtesy/Benoit Brummer, Creative Commons)
A Cochin chicken on May 30, 2018, in Belgium.

When you think of a garden you might imagine idyllic scenes of rows of leafy greens and red strawberries peeking from beneath foliage, with plump chickens scratching in the dirt of the path and ducks waddling down the lanes. 

Reality with feathered friends is quite different — shredded, trampled plants and veggies with holes pecked in them, dug-up beds and…