Hen Heaven

Photo grabbed from the most excellent Design*Sponge.

Ye gods check out this Design*Sponge post on chicken coops. The green roof...! [swoon]

Ikea chicken-coop hack

A masterpiece of Swedish design. Photo from ikea hacker.

All the cool kids these days are busy with their chickens and their bee hives, and here I am without so much as a barn cat or a bird feeder. Wait, I have sheep! But they're down at the farm, and I need something here, dammit.

In the meantime, up above is a cool Ikea chicken-coop hack from, well duh, ikea hacker via the Ethicurean via Urban Chickens. I could do this.

And if not — on to Plan B:

How cool would this look with a little paint? From Street Use via Make.

Related:
Poultry posts from Raised by Wolves
Chicken posts from Smartdogs' Weblog [Fort Peepage...LOLOL]
Spring chicken raisin' - one of many chicken posts by Gina at Pet Connection
Chicken posts from Team Chicken at Sunset Magazine's One-Block Diet
Bee posts from Birdchick

Let's give Heather a pullet surprise

It's Little D! OMG, he's been plucked, er... snatched, somehow or other, from the loving environment of Room 1-208 and now his captors are calling him "Dale" and threatening to... OMG, I can't even bring myself to type it! [Links, though — links we can do!] From this:



To this:


Unless... What's that up in the sky? SoCal to the rescue...!!!


OMG, how I suck at Photoshop. For those lacking faith in the San Diego Chicken, please donate here to save the world's cutest little chickenbird and not so incidentally help dogs in need. Little D and a whole lot of the rest of us, including Heather's mom, thank you for your support.