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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Feeding Frenzy!

 
We have been having some fun giving the chicks treats for the last two weeks. They have tried lettuce, dandelions, grasshoppers, corn and today they got to try watermellon. Good times! They love things they deem smaller than themselves. If it is too big they won't go near it for quite a while. This pretty fruit they didn't have any trouble attacking. They just jumped right in.

 
Another thing we have done to amuse them is to hang a suet feeder and fill it with lettuce and strawberries. They were afraid of this basket for a little while and now they devour the treats inside in record time. We want to bribe them into being our friends. We are not too proud.

 
This beauty is one of the Ross'. Could be Ross-a or Ross-b. I still can't tell the difference. Monica and Rachel still reign as the nicest ones but the two Ross' are pretty excited to fly onto a shoulder if the opportunity presents itself too.

 
And this is an updated picture of the chicken house. I still have to finish painting the trim on  the eaves on the east and west and the window up high above the  run but had some difficulties with the ladder. And the fact that the run roof is slick. I decided to wait for Doyle to get home from work to help me. Then the ambulance is only a phone call away and not a long crawl to the house first. I don't enjoy heights very much. I have also started the flower beds around the coop. They will be outlined in river rock and raised up with dirt a little. I still haven't figured out if there is any such thing as chicken proof plantings but the main goal is to keep mud off the walls in the rain. Plus it will finish the whole look nicely.  This project has been fun but I am so ready to be completely done and onto something else. It has consumed me and I need a change of focus.

19 comments:

  1. You have really finished the coop nicely! It looks better than some people's houses, ha.
    The chickens look to be growing nicely.

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  2. Hi Heather! I said before that if I was a cat I'd like to be found by you. Now, I know that if I was a chicken, I'd like to live in this cute chicken house!

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  3. That is one classy chicken house!

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  4. Heather, nice job on the coop, cool. As they get bigger, I think you'll find that the Plymouth Barred Rocks are the smartest and most inquisitive, followed by the Buff Orpingtons. I love my Americanas, but the Rocks are SMART, (for chickens) Brian

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  5. Looking so good! Our chicks are interested in grass and that's about it. I'll have to try the watermelon. They don't care about lettuce at all.

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  6. That is one uptown chicken house Heather! Good thinking to wait until Doyle was home to finish painting. Love the lettuce and strawberries in the suet basket.

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  7. No. No chicken-proof planting at all. Ever. None.

    That said, the house looks great.

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  8. Very hungry and funny chickens!!! :) And the house looks so nice, you did a great job with it!

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  9. "... long crawl to the house first": funny but also not. Glad you came to your senses. I no longer use the chainsaw unless Mr. Sorry is home for the same reason.

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  10. is it sad that your chicken coop looks better than my house does?

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  11. the chicken house has turned out great! I hang a suet cage for my chickens too, they like it :)

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  12. I LOVE the chicken house!! What a great job you've done and I really like it when you talk about your chickens. They are more full of personality than we think.

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  13. I think that's where the expression Grubs up must come from.

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  14. Your chicken house is the most adorable thing I have ever seen! Turned out really great! We've been giving the chicks treats too. They love grapes. Your idea of the suet feeder is great! May have to give it a whirl!

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  15. The chicken house could be a magazine! It turned out great! It's been fun to watch it being built and now it's all done. -Jackie

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  16. Man, those chicks grew fast! Love the stars on the chicken condo!

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  17. cool chicken house!its so pretty.

    our chickens love watermelon too.

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  18. I have loved this whole project...watching the chickens grow up, the chicken house being built, thanks for sharing this whole thing!!

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-Heather

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