Chickens love Yogurt!

Did you know that you can feed your chickens plain yogurt? I was doing some research about our chickens and found out that they like yogurt so I went out and bought some to see if it was true. As you can see it is!

It is really cute how they all swarm around the bowl and fight to get in. They dive their beaks is and come up with yogurt all over themselves. Then they shake their heads like a dog to get the excess off which ends up on the other chickens. Then they try to clean off each other. When they are all done they wipe the beaks off on the grass. When we go to get the bowl it is scraped clean, you can see beak marks in the yogurt that is left. Now when we go out to see the girls they look at you like, "wher is my yogurt!"

Chcken Coops!

This is our inspiration coop that I found on a great website, I think it is soo cute and I won't mind seeing it in our backyard! This is all I could think and talk about when it came to the chicken coop planning and our old friend Mike saw a post I did on FB. His family was also starting the chicken adventure and so he suggested he and Eric make them together! What FUN!

So with nothing but pictures of our inspiration coop and 2 very excited wives Eric and Mike started the building process! We are very proud of our thrifty coops. Mike found most of the wood at building sites from the dump bins and Eric has found siding the same way!

Eric and Mike have been friends since they were 16 so this has been a really fun time to spend together! You can just see the "man power"they are experiencing! They are building 2 identical coops at the same time, they are so awsome!

The siding is starting! I am sooo excited to paint it! I found a cute white cast iron trivet for $5 to use as the decrative window in the peak and then we went to the Restore and found some great blue paint for $5 some white trim paint for $0.80 and cute hinges for $1 each. These are some pretty thrifty coops! We will post more progress reports soon and some pics of the chickens, they are getting huge!

We've gone country!!!

Now that we are living on an acre we decided to go a little country and get some chickens!

We went to Zamzows and let each of the kids pick one, even Jude! It all worked out well, each one picked a different breed so we will be able to tell them apart!

Jonas got a barred rock chicken, it will be black and white. His name changes on a daily basis!

Eden got an Ameruacana, it will lay blue and green eggs. She named her Buttercup!

Jude (you can tell he is really excited) has a brown leghorn who I refer to as Gertrude.

Logan got a golden sexlink, he named her Reeces!