Pickles, Pickles, Pickles...

Pickles, pickles, pickles:)... Fresh cukes and dill from our garden. Still figuring out the whole garlic thing, but will get it eventually! 

Chicken Yard THINGS...

 So... After the numerous attacks on our free range chickens, ducks, guineas, we fenced in a 3/4 acre "chicken yard." Our babies are used to having the run of 50 acres or better, but we recently experienced much loss with fox, opossum, and raccoon attacks. The top picture is a "scratch bed" I made for our babies. It contains compost, leaves, sticks, bark, pine needles, and worms. They love scratching and pecking in the woods, so I hope this provides them SOME comfort/fun:). We planted a weeping willow tree nearby that will give them some shade in this area as well. 

All of the plants in the chicken yard are "chicken preferred." We planted things they like as well as natural de-wormers. We added an apple tree for additional shade AND yummy treats. 

They have marigolds, roses, catnip, spearmint, peppermint, oregano, pineapple sage, chives, garlic, cone flowers, lemon balm, thyme, rosemary, lemon grass, lavender, wormwood, dandilions, sunn hemp, and "grass." 

YES... They have a chicken swing:).