So I tend to go a little bit overboard with Christmas decorations every year.

I love Christmas, so I have to try and reign myself in every year when I want to decorate my house all out for the holidays. I’ve been looking at Christmas decorations on Pinterest all week (obviously) and I realized that I need to start decorating my chicken coop for the holidays! I think having holiday decor on the chicken coop might motivate me to leave my warm house to go check on my chickens. Or at least it would make a trip out to the coop more enjoyable right?

So today I thought I would share some of my absolute favorite DIY Christmas decorations for the chicken coop with all of you. Most of these DIY decorations you can make for cheap, or maybe even for free! So let’s get going, here are my favorite DIY Holiday decorations for your chicken coop.

Pine Cone Wreath

Wouldn’t one of these pine cone wreaths look fantastic on your chicken coop? If you have a pine tree in your backyard you could make this simple DIY wreath practically for free. You can find the tutorial here: Making Pine Cone Wreaths

Chicken Coop Garland

I love this adorable chicken coop garland for your hens made from fruit and chicken treats! Not only is this garland adorable, but it’s also a great boredom buster for your hens during the winter months. You can find the tutorial here: Festive Garland for a Chicken Coop

Holiday Herb & Berry Wreath

I’ve made this adorable wreath for my chicken coop, and my chickens love it. It looks adorable, and yes your chickens are supposed to eat it! It’s a great way to feed your chickens herbs in a fun and festive way! Tutorial here: Holiday Herb & Berry Wreath

Hot Chocolate Bar

Ok, so this isn’t exactly for your chicken coop, but after running out to the coop to check on my chickens in freezing weather, I definitely need some hot chocolate. So this DIY decoration is for the chicken owner:) I love the idea of creating an everyday hot chocolate bar because who doesn’t want hot chocolate everyday? This DIY project is super simple and I love how fun and festive it would make a small corner of your kitchen feel. Tutorial: Everyday Hot Chocolate Bar

Feed Bag Stocking

Isn’t this a great idea to use your leftover feed bags? You can make feed bag stockings to hang on your chicken coop for free using your empty chicken feed bags. Tutorial here: Feed Bag Stockings

Edible Christmas Garlands

Here’s another fun Christmas garland idea for your chicken coop. This one is made from radishes, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, and boiled eggs! This probably wouldn’t last long in my chicken coop, but it’s a fun and simple Christmas decoration! You can find the tutorial here: Edible Christmas Garland

Cookie Tin Water Heater

This cookie tin water heater is festive and practical! It keeps your chickens’ water from freezing! I love that this project is festive and useful at the same time! Here’s the tutorial: Cookie Tin Water Heater

Festive Chicken Coop

Don’t you love this coop? It looks STUNNING and it would be fairly simple to replicate! You can see more pictures of this adorable coop here: Holiday Chicken Coop

Do you decorate your chicken coop for the holidays? What chicken coop decorations do you love?

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There’s something nostalgic about rustic wall decor.

It almost feels as if there is small pieces of history in your space. It’s comforting to see something that’s worn and well used. Rustic farmhouse decor reminds us of days gone by and brings up treasured memories from the past.

Even if you don’t live on a farm or homestead you can still bring the farmhouse feel to your home using rustic wall decor.  Wall decor brightens up your living room and draws people into the heart of your home. I love each of these beautiful rustic wall decor items because of the vintage farmhouse feel that each would bring to your living room.

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Decorative Wire Back Wall Shelves 

These shelves are a beautiful addition to any living room. These shelves are perfect for displaying vintage books or other priceless knick knacks that you may have.

Find them here: Decorative Wire Back Wall Shelves

Distressed Wood Hanging Shelves

These hanging shelves are a fun and interesting way to bring the vintage feel to your living room. You can use these shelves higher on the walls (out of reach of the kiddos) to display family photos or potted plants.

Find them here: Distressed Wood Hanging Shelves

Barn Wood Rustic Decorative Shutters

These rustic shutters are the perfect addition to a living room window. The distressed wood brings the feeling that these shutters have been around for decades.

Find them here: Barn Wood Rustic Decorative Shutters 

Rustic Metal Windmill Clock 

This stunning windmill clock is pretty and practical. This clock would bring a subtle farmhouse feel to any living room.

Find it here: Rustic Metal Windmill Clock

Which of these wall decor items is your favorite?

While recipes aren’t a big part of this website, from time to time, I come across a product so good, that I have to tell you about it.

(This article contains affiliate links, which means I might make a small commission at no extra cost to you if you join ButcherBox. This is my honest review of this product. I’ve been a customer for years, and I love it!)

I did a livestream of my favorite subscription box, Butcher Box, last month, and it was so popular, I’ve repeated it this month.

If you haven’t heard, ButcherBox is a subscription box that offers sustainably-raised and sourced grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, pork, and chicken.

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I get one sent to our farm every month – the all beef box – and I love that I can have grass fed, organic meat sent right to my house – something that’s otherwise inaccessible in our area.

We choose the beef box because we can raise pigs and chickens….but not cattle.

I started a search for organic, humanely raised meat a while ago – I was tired of staring at hormone-raised, corn fed beef at the grocery.

It wasn’t even fresh. It’s a joke.

If you’re looking for healthy, organic food that’s humanely sourced and raised, then watch the video below & see why I love this subscription box so much.

If you decide you want to join ButcherBox, then use this link here: Butcher Box 

Until October 31, new customers will get $25 off and a package of bacon with their first order

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Don’t even try to tell me you don’t want free bacon. The world turns on free bacon. It’s a good deal – check it out!

That’s also my affiliate link, which means that when you treat your family to ButcherBox through that link, I earn a small commission, which allows me to feed my kids more organic grassfed beef. So thank you if you use it! Enjoy the video!

Well, the temperature has dropped about 40 degrees in the past couple days, which has me super happy – I can finally start working on building coops and more videos for y’all!

 

The constant heat and bugs made it impossible all summer long.

 

I’ve been wanting to do a video web series about building coops, and it took a backseat because the mosquitoes took over the backyard.

 

Now that it seems fall has arrived, we can start working! I bought a new framing nailer to celebrate.

 

By the way, did you see this week’s YouTube video where we finish the duckling pen?

(if you watch the video and like it, please give a thumbs up & tell me what you’d like to see us build – that way YouTube knows people like our videos and it helps other chicken owners find us! Thank you!)

 

Luckily, we have electricity in the cabin, so we can add a heater for the chicks. The top of the incubator with the heating element has worked well, too.

 

The Brinsea Incubator we use has a piece of plastic that separates the heating element from the chicks, so it’s MUCH safer than a heat lamp.

 

We have the ducklings and chicks together. I’m normally not a fan of keeping them together, but we have just a few ducklings, and at least for now, it’s easier to keep everyone warm when they’re in the same brooder.

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In a week or so, I’ll probably have to separate as the ducklings get older and messier.

 

We’ve been giving them PCM StrongHen (TM), and based on the amount of noise they make and the amount food they eat, it’s definitely doing something for them!

 

 

Eggs

We’re still getting eggs daily from the chickens – which means we’ve been making a LOT of egg custard. The chicks we raised earlier this year are all starting to lay!

 

And then there’s Goldie – my Ameraucana/Easter egger mix.

 

She lays blue eggs, but there’s some issue with her laying, because every egg has a lump around its “equator”, where the egg has cracked a bit and then had extra layers of calcium molded over it.

 

Sometimes things like this happen, and we know she has a good diet with lots of calcium.

 

It’s always egg-citing when the young ones become layers and we get their first egg. It’s a little like Christmas in the coop every morning! (You can see the coop in this YouTube video if you’re curious!)

 

Mama, our olive egger hen, reached the end of her long life this summer (she was about 5), and left us with several daughters.

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I’m keeping my fingers crossed that some of these ladies will lay olive eggs also!

 

 

Hey y’all! Here’s this week’s sneaky peek photos of life on our farm!

These images also appear on my Instagram account where I share MANY more photos and stories from the farm!

If you aren’t yet following me there, you can right here.

Enjoy the photos & be sure to share some of yours with me!

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