Old Christmas trees, bird seed, and chickens.

We’re attracting the wrong sort of birds at our feeder. The chickens have been having fun picking up any scrap seeds that fall to the ground. The two trees pictured here are old Christmas trees. The one on the left is ours (free, off the front forty, obviously). The one on the right is my parent’s tree ($20 down the tube). I put pieces of re bar in the ground and wired the trees to them to keep them upright. The boys plastered some pine cones with peanut butter and rolled those in seeds and then hung them from the trees. It’s funny to watch the rooster eyeing those cones and trying figure out how to jump and peck at the same time. It hasn’t been successful and I think he’s too proud to try it very often.