Friday, May 10, 2013

Mothers Day Sewing and A Few Chickens

I managed to get in some sewing time during this busy week with new things going on around the house. I am making up a small wall hanging for my mom for mothers day. I really am enjoying this applique thing lots lately  nothing recycled in this project but I am still working on all that too.


Well as always with my silliness I got this idea that a couple chickens would be fun to have and we could enjoy  some farm fresh eggs too.  So I went to look at a small chicken coop for sale and than we got to talking and he also sold me 3 Hens so wow in like a few hrs flat a became a chicken farmer LOL ok well at least an owner of 3 laying hens.  Here is my new Girls so far 2 have names Hildigar and Zelda the 3rd is still waiting for her name. Day 3 we figured out how to tell them all apart too.


Since we have a lot of red tail hawks over head along with many other predators I  built this  up fast so they be out and safe while we are around.  Below I will so my small coop they seem to love too. I am working on building them a mobile chicken coop or Chicken tractor for them to enjoy and it will be secure enough to have them be able to enjoy the outside safely and securely all day.  For right now this is my set up. 


I would love for them to be totally free range however I am guessing that I would not have my fun hens for very long with all the hawks,  fox, coyotes, coons, and many others roaming around that would just just to eat up my hens. 


11 comments:

  1. Yay, how awesome that you got chickens! They are quite addictive and so much fun to be around. And you can't beat the eggs of course :) Congrats!

    Thanks so much for visiting my blog and commenting! Have a great weekend!

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    1. Thanks I am having lots of fun and designing some new coup ideas and they are a lot of fun.

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  2. I love your coop, it's so cute and your girls are adorable!
    Good luck with them xxx

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  3. chickens are fun to raise!

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  4. also... forgot to add... nice mother's day gift... bet she will love it!

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    1. She Loved them and think she is very happy she calls and asks about them every day. Its really fun

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    2. we need to get you over to see them and if it warms up some sewing on the deck.

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    3. any time... I'm going to be painting some doors this week I hope... you need to get on facebook so I can chat more... give me a call when you can!

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  5. Congratulations on your new chickens! I got my 3 in March and we've been having fun with them so far! I wanted them to be free range as well, but instead they are supervised free range. They are housed in a coop in the dog run so I let them out for a few hours each day. Love the wall hangings. Great idea.

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    1. Thank You so Much. I ma thing of the dog run too. I have a few ideas as I work on the next coup building.

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