ChickenCam

The following is supposed to be an activity for 4 to 8 year-olds, but I think with the right attitude (and perhaps an adult beverage or two) grownups could have fun with this too.

What you need:

1. Yellow paint
2. Wash tub/bucket big enough for your foot
3. Construction paper
4. Colored Pens / Pencils

What you do:

1. Get some construction paper and put it on the floor
2. Dip your (bare) foot in the yellow paint and step on the construction paper to make a footprint.
3. The heel is the chick’s “head”
4. Let the paint dry and draw in a beak, legs, etc. to make the footprint look like a baby chicken.
5. Pin the finished work to your wall, bulletin board, refrigerator, etc. to show your kids that you’re at least as creative as they are.

The original “kiddie” instructions come via KinderArt.com

You can now add soap bubbles to the growing list of things that “smell like chicken”.

According to gadgetshop, who is selling the “Fetch a Bubble Machine“:

Adapted from one of their existing products, the team at Gazillion saw the need for an automatic scented bubble blowing machine after watching a TV series on Dog behaviour, in which the K9’s under observation went utterly bananas for bubbles! The Fetch a Bubble was designed as an Ideal toy for indoor or outdoor use, and is incredibly simple to set underway. It’s series of bubble wands rotate through 13 full revolutions in one minute firing off a frenzy of thousands of bubbles per minute in a Tommy-Gun like fashion!

As to why they chose to scent the bubbles with chicken smell, I have no idea — especially give the wide range of stinky things dogs would rather lick. But I’m guessing that the “another dog’s butt” smell wasn’t available at the time.

Product Link.

(Thanks once again to Trixie over at Thirty Two Flavors for the link.)

It’s pouring rain here and has been on and off for several days. Naturally, these are ideal conditions if you’re a duck

since it means lots of mud and goo in which to shovel your bill looking for grubs, worms and the like.

I can tell when it’s raining in the morning even without looking outside because the chicken/duck coop sits about 50 feet away from our back window. If it’s a normal dry morning the chickens will be shuffling around making their usual clucking and scratching noises.

But if it’s raining, I’ll hear webbed-feet dancing in the muddy areas of the coop accompanied by lots of impatient quacking. It’s as if the ducks are saying “hurry up and let us out! There’s mud out there!”

The chickens on the other hand will remain in the coop where it’s nice and dry. (There’s nothing sadder looking than a wet hen.)

Around here the ducks and chicken’s mingle freely, but not that freely. However, down in Colombia it seems to be a different story because one guy has a chicken with a duck’s feet. (Which raises the question “is a there a duck with chicken feet somewhere nearby?”)

Link to story (with video goodness).