Here are a few ideas to help you cultivate your nest:
A playhouse chicken coop via Backyard Chickens
You know I’ve been thinking about getting chickens for quite some time now. Although when I went to walk Maxie yesterday we saw a hawk lift off with a squirrel in our front yard! There have been so many more hawks around these past few years due to all the construction that has destroyed their natural habitat/hunting grounds. So I don’t know if I’d be able to free range my chickens. Anyway, I keep looking at coops and this one is just so cute and seems incredibly easy to make. Don’t miss the Starclucks bistro set – also very cute!
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Check out this checkerboard ceiling via Not Just A Housewife
I painted a checkerboard pattern on my deck a few years ago and that was hard. I can’t imagine doing it overhead! My neck hurts just from thinking about it. It looks great and I love that she did something you don’t see everyday.
How pretty is this painted knife block via Infarrantly Creative
photo credit:Infarrantly Creative
I just love it when you can do little things like this to personalize items in your home.
Here’s a really interesting article on growing The $1 Garden by Jonathan Nunan at Backwoods Home Magazine
photo credit: Backwoods Home Magazine
The article is about how much food his Mom was able to grow from 10 cent seed packages from Dollar Tree. I also grew some veggies from Dollar Tree seeds this year and was pleasantly surprised at how wonderfully everything is growing.
Hope these “seeds” inspire you and have a great weekend!
I love the chicken coop, although it looks so tiny it might be hard to clean out. We have chickens, and hawks. I don’t free range them much but I have had them out running around in the yard occasionally and had no problem. I’ve heard if you throw a ginea hen in with them chickens they sound an alarm that sends the chickens scurrying for cover if a predator is near.
CHeckerboard anything makes my heart beat faster, but I agree, a ceiling would be hard!
Yes, I thought it might be hard to clean too. Didn’t know about the guinea hen thing!
I’ve been meaning to paint our knife block with ORB, but never did get around to doing it. I should just do it already! I love that playhouse chicken coop ~ that is really cute.
Hi Manuela, I lost you there for a while but saw your comment at Brenda’s Cozy Little House. Not so many folks with Manuela as their name. 🙂 That chicken coop is so cute. If you only have a few, then I think it would be wonderful. If they are also allowed to venture the yard, then there shouldn’t be that much cleaning up. Heck, there is clean up in everything we do. A fact of life! I am so very sad today as I put to sleep my outside Sweet Kitty. It is so hard to have any kinda pet or animal, as I get so attached. Years ago, I wanted to be a vet … I know now I could never have survived it. . Just breaks my heart completely. Hope your day is beautiful. Tammy
The open to the air part of my coop and run are covered with a roof of chicken wire (I have a twin size sheet draped over it in the summer to help with the heat and provide some more shade), which protects against hawks, raccoons, and possums (all of which are a big problem in my urban suburb of Memphis). I let the chickens out in the evenings about 2 hours before sunset to run around the back yard. I’ve had to section off my vegetable garden from them with bird netting because they will ravage it. I’ve also had to give up having much of the way of any ornamental plants in the back yard because of the same issue. This is my 6th year with these girls (6 for 3 of them, 2d for one of them).
The coop is so stinkin’ cute! We built ours from scratch a few years ago and I am happy with it but there are SO many cute coops out there these days. And, re free ranging, I’ve since learned the hard way that you don’t want to do it all the time – especially when the garden is full of seedlings!
Oh my gosh, dying over that chicken coop. Great links, Thank you xoxo Clarice
What a darling chicken coop! I know where you can find two free rooster silkies. ;>
We have hawks here too..and fox..(one pays a visit every day) so I don’t let my chickens free range either. I DO let them out after summer veg are up and doing well (never when first seeded or just coming up) and ONLY when I am out working in the garden..(or reading on the porch) usually for a few hours in the evening before they go in for the night. Of course if I know we are going out..even to run to the store for a few minutes…I do not let them out.
That is one cute coop especially for an urban backyard…
Our garden is growing very well…
thanks for the shout out on my knife block. I am so glad you liked it enough to share!
Love that painted knife holder. Such a great idea! Mimi
That’s what apparently happened to my cat Bonnie this time last year. A hawk, driven from its home in the pine forests here due to the constant construction surrounding my cul de sac. I no longer put out bird seed, because that can bring rats in, and thus hawks. So that is a very real worry. I will check out these links.
Brenda
Wow, your garden is wonderful! Everything looks so healthy. Thanks for stopping by. I love you blog and just became a follower.
Chickens are nice to have, and I hear they eat scorpions. However, they might really reel havoc on your lovely plants.