California - Northern

[Miss Molly]

I'm going to share my "recipe" for making felt chickens. 

Felt Chickens

Materials:
Felt (different colors)
Sharp scissors
Needle
Thread
Pen or Pencil
Ground cloves and cinnamon
Stuffing/dryer lint

1. Draw a chicken body on felt. 
 

2. Cut out body.

3. Thread your needle with desired color of thread.

4. Start sewing at bottom of chicken.

5. Stop sewing around head.

6. Take a piece of red felt and cut out a comb.

Finished comb.

7. Sew on comb.

8. Take some yellow felt and cut out a triangle for a beak.

9. Sew on beak.

10. Cut out a red wattle.

11. Sew on wattle.

12. Continue sewing until you get to an inch to inch and a 1/2  opening.

13. Mix ground cloves and cinnamon to make a fresh/festive smell.

14. Stuff the chicken with stuffing or dryer lint.

15. Put in clove and cinnamon mix and sew up the chicken.

16. Cut thread.

17. Tie a double knot. 

18. Finished product! Can be used as cat toys too...

...or ornaments....

...You can even make a duck! 

So this is what I have been doing while I have a cold. 

Really cute. I love to craft. Looks fun ! Feel better..colds suck!

 

[Miss Molly]

BigDaddysMom... I love your guard Dog. So dang cute !

 

[Miss Molly]

Actually under a hen.  I've got a PR that everytime I go in the coop she is in a box or looking for an egg.  She missed out this summer and is acting ready again.  No power outage worries that way.

Nothing better then a good Broody hen my favorite broody hen hatched three batches last year. I would trust her with my most valuable eggs. She's that good.. good luck!

 

[OR4-hmom]

I'm working on a broody room so I can move my girls out of their main flock to set and raise the chicks. Swing Shift, (flock name), has some aggression issues with the BSL's. I wouldn't want the broody to have to fight them off to protect her babies. I've had good luck moving them while setting even.

 

[Happy Chooks]

A shovel a pick , hand saw and a breaker bar. Did around a section with at least 3 good canes. in a circle. did down with the shovel and the saw for cutting the roots. with the bar you can pry it up and dig the rest out as you go.
Put in a pot with extra dirt.
I can get down in a few weeks though.
I am off the week of xmas. plus any weekend after that should be ok

That sounds like way too much work.

If I need a breaker bar to get a plant up, it's meant to stay where it is. Note to self: Don't plant bamboo.

Nothing better then a good Broody hen

my favorite broody hen hatched three batches last year. I would trust her with my most valuable eggs. She's that good..

good luck!

I love broody hens, but it's not so fun when you have 3 of them at once. Musical nest boxes, fighting over chicks.

 

[Miss Molly]

That sounds like way too much work.   If I need a breaker bar to get a plant up, it's meant to stay where it is.  Note to self:  Don't plant bamboo.


I love broody hens, but it's not so fun when you have 3 of them at once.  Musical nest boxes, fighting over chicks.

No, that might be stressful...

 

[OR4-hmom]

Isn't three broodies fighting over nest boxes and chicks SOP? It is here.

 

[ElitePoultry]

Good Morning everyone! It is COLD this morning! I forgot to turn the heat on last night and woke up freezing my socks off! Got the fire going around 430. I got "THE" call from usps around 545! Bielefelders made a safe landing! I don't think I've ever driven that fast to the post office before Lol Wow they are beautiful! Im really impressed already. They are very pretty little chicks. Very talkative. They look a little younger that i expected them to be. Maybe about 4 weeks old now. Hey Molly. Do you have any ideas on how to use those wire brooder/coop things indoors in the garage. I was thinking of making like a big bed of hay to set the brooder on to catch the poop. And then make like a arena around the brooder and hay so they have a little yard to come out of the brooder to. Think that would be ok?

 

[ronott1]

Good Morning everyone!

It is COLD this morning!

I forgot to turn the heat on last night and woke up freezing my socks off! Got the fire going around 430.

I got "THE" call from usps around 545! Bielefelders made a safe landing! I don't think I've ever driven that fast to the post office before Lol

Wow they are beautiful! Im really impressed already. They are very pretty little chicks. Very talkative. They look a little younger that i expected them to be. Maybe about 4 weeks old now.


Hey Molly. Do you have any ideas on how to use those wire brooder/coop things indoors in the garage. I was thinking of making like a big bed of hay to set the brooder on to catch the poop. And then make like a arena around the brooder and hay so they have a little yard to come out of the brooder to. Think that would be ok?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Cute chicks! It's a pair? The male is lighter with the larger comb? I'd never heard of Bielefelders and had to look them up. Congratulations!!