Cute finds at Hobby Lobby

I found some cute stuff for the garden at Hobby Lobby.  All the spring and summer stuff is on clearance,  up to 90% off!  They are making room for their Christmas stuff. A little early in my opinion,  but hey look at the cute stuff I found.
The eggs are not from Hobby Lobby, they are from my chickas ;-)

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Can I have some privacy please...

I'm taking a bath, do you mind.

It just cracks me up when the chickens do their dust bathing

I have been using Sweet PDZ in my coop for about a month now and I am very pleased with this product.  It is actually for horse stalls but it can be used with other animals also.  It gets rid of the ammonia smell and dries up the poop.  I was inside the hen house today and the temperature was in the 90's and no poop smell!  I'm going to start adding it to the run as well. I use the granules, I have not tried the powder.

Inspectors Rose & Daisy, making sure my cleaning meets their standards

Fun in the yard

I have wasted a lot of time building roosts for the chickas, they like to hang out on the deck, or the fire pit.
Every night I have a mess of mulch to sweep off the sidewalk,  they love to scratch & dust bath in it
We just got a Bullfrog tadpole for the pond. Hopefully he stays around. Frogs kind of gross me out, but I guess it's cool to have one in your pond.  It might take awhile to get a picture of him, he's sneaky.

Strawberry & Mint Popsicles

Even Chickens like Popsicles.

  I have learned that mint naturally helps cool down your body temperature.

The ingredients for the popsicle are pretty simple, fresh mint, whole strawberries(including tops), water & a string. I put the mint & strawberries in the food processor and turned it into puree, added string, put about a teaspoon in each ice cube mold, filled with water and froze for a few hours.

I might have to make some for us ;)

A boy and his Chicken

Jack & Mojito

Jack loves holding the chickens, I guess that's his reward for catching one of them.  They really are not that hard to catch.  I have started letting them roam around the yard when I'm out with them.  They really enjoy scratching around in the flower/weed beds.  They all stay pretty close together, I think they are afraid one of them will find a big juicy bug so they have to be right there to try and steel it.  The dog is not a problem, the poor thing is afraid of the chickens.  He will turn and go the other way when he sees them.  I only put them in their play-pen when I am cleaning the coop since I can't keep an eye on them. 

I have planted to vegetables in containers this year (for us, not the chickens) Tomato, Green Pepper, Buttercrunch Lettuce, Chives, Cucumber, Jalapeno & Cilantro, now I just need some onion and I'll be set.  The chickens do think it is for them so I have to shoo them away from the containers.  But they will have a nice surprise in a few weeks.  I planted "Chicken Salad" from MyPetChicken.com  It is a seed mix of some different kinds of greens that chickens like.

The Stand Off of Stella & Cookie

We also started working on a pond for the back yard. It's a small one, about 55 gallons, with a little water fall, fountain and squirting turtle. I love to listen to it, I can hear it at night through my bedroom window.

Supervised free range

I purchased some scratch grains for the chickies, they seemed to enjoy them. I also let them check out the yard a bit, they were very interested in the deck. My freshly cleaned deck.... What do chickens do? Eat and POOP! lots of poop. Had to hose of the deck. That's OK they had fun.

heading back to their coop after checking out the yard

"Did you Say BBQ Chicken??"

Chicken Scratch

"make sure you poop on the clean deck before you leave"

enjoying the chicken scratch

Must have more
Scratch