Chickens and Plants

Okay, you guys were so good with my cooking Question that I have another one.

my town has chickens.

They don't actually belong to anyone and although there are laws against free-roaming, they are unstoppable.

However, they are eating my purple, low lying plant. They are probably the same culprit that ate our LILY!
The aloe appears to be the only thing they leave alone.

Short of building a fence around the house which is economically unfeasible and doesn't seem to help anyway...they fly when food's involved or getting a pet to chase them off, what can we do?

*We also don't want to kill them.

Grandkids

This year was the first year where the people I went K-12 with started talking about and sharing the photos of their kids entering high school...

And I realized that I know what's coming next...

Grandkids

Eww