How to get a chicken's foot print??? Any ideas?

[LadyBclucky]

Hello everybody, we are reconstructing our chicken run and painting our coop this weekend (wish us luck!) I wanted to decorate some of the run with chicken foot prints... does anyone have any idea how I can get these little gals to give me a good print? I also am laying some cement and I want to get their prints in that as well... my only idea is to actually pick up a chicken and press her feet in the cement and hope she doesn't flip out! Any one had any luck doing this? I'll be sure to post pictures. Thanks!

 

[artsyrobin]

maybe sprinkle a tread on the otherside of the cement, they'd run through it?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

When I wanted Petey's footprint on a letter I sent, I painted the underneith of his foot with red paint then layed his foot flat on the paper.

I didnt consider that chicken feet have a ton of divots and stuff, the print doesn't look anything as good as a real foot print in the mud

 

[LadyBclucky]

my fear of them running through the cement is them not coming back! I can just see my whole plan going down hill when I have to run throught fresh cement to get my chicken back.

That would be greaaaaat

 

[ChickenSahib]

Get some puddy or something like that and stick their foot in it. Take it out slowly and you have a mold! Now fill it in with some resin or something. You got yourself a chicken footprint painter?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Visit you local michaels crafts or hobby lobby, they sell hand and foot print kits you can make a mold with.

 

[motoclown]

Just the other day I was wondering how I could get white chicken feet prints on the front of my 3rd coop.
Stencil is my first thought, stamp next and sponge are the quick thoughts I had.
I get uncut plastic stencils at the craft store then cut them to the design I like.
So I thought why not a chicken foot stencil.

*(you could always use a dead chickens feet to make chicken feet stamps in cement, just a thought)

 

[spotstealer]

Be sure to clean your chickens feet afterward, [wet] cement is corrosive. My run is all sand. If yours is, tou could smooth an area and let them walk through it, then make a mold. You can buy mold kits at craft stores.

 

[Bleenie]

Coax them across the cement with some treats and then wash their feet right after?

 

[Bleenie]

Chicken feet at the grocery store... can't think of a better use for those things!!!

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