Alycia, do you have a picture of the damage? It is always easier to tell what is what from a picture, since words never seem to do it justice.

For the brief time I had chickens here, they were too young when the plants were just emerging....and I'm talking vegetables not hosta. But later when I let them out, they scoured the area for bugs and slugs, and never bothered any plants.

I really feel your pain about the Guacamole and Guardian Angel especially. I've been reading critter damage reports on the forum, but yours is the first chicken critter report in my memory. Hopefully you can show us what the hosta look like now, closeup, and someone can make an estimate for you.
Hang in there, many I thought were goners over the winter with squirrel damage returned better than ever this year.

Fried chicken, chicken pot pie, chicken dumplings, chicken salad, chicken ravioli....

I am sorry. I do hope they recover. Something chewed a hole in my Blue Angle leaf and I am crushed. I feel your pain. Chicken teriyaki. I will be out tonight with a flashlight. Probably having chicken 'nuggets.

I will try and get a picture.

NO NOT MY CHICKENS! I do eat the extra males, but my not my girls! It was my fault for not doing a better job on their outside pen. They are my 2 loves other than my children-my Hostas and my chickens I will not get rid of one in order to keep the other. In the summer and fall they don't touch my plants. I think it's just because it's spring and thye haven't seen green inawhile, they tasted all my daylilies too but they grew fast so they aren't as tasty anymore.

I just bought 75 ft of chicken wire mesh fence at Home Depot, but used it against rabbits. You need several fence posts to hammer into the ground, tie the fence against it and chickens stay away from hostas.
This year I will have new hosta cultivars, those with round or ragged leaves thanks to wabbits eating off the pips.
Good Luck! Bernd

Hey,if one of my hostas can come back.after being eaten right off at ground level,anything is possible! A rabbit,was the critter. Phil

I keep a bunch of those square plastic milk crates. They let in enough light and are big enough to let the hostas get fairly large. In fact, a couple that seem to be extra tasty lived under a crate all last summer.

I'm betting your hostas come back. Just pop a crate over them until they get big enough not to be chicken food.

Yes, your hostas will come back. They have plenty of time to send out new eyes from the crown.

My chickens did the same thing really early this spring in the hosta garden right outside their coop. I only let them out for a little while and the next thing I knew they were chomping away at the pips just poking out of the ground.

They are in confinement for the rest of the summer and won't be out again until fall.

sorry.. but this is one hosta topic.. I GOT NOTHING ...

crikey.. the wild, marauding chickens of z3/4 ... lol

ken