I've been wanting to do something with a chicken feeder for a while now, so I was super excited when I found one this weekend.
I've had a couple people mention the turquoise color of it from the photo I posted on Sunday, but that may have been more my poor photography skills than actual color.
In person, it really looks more like the green color of your Grandpa's John Deere tractor that has been left out in the elements and had raccoons living in it for 20 years or so.
Since I don't own chickens, using it as an actual feeder was out of the question. Two dogs + flock of chickens = lots of feathers flying. And not in a good way!
So I hatched a plan to turn my chicken feeder into a planter. Totally not my very own original idea, but still a fun one.
The flowers are Million Gold Melampodium, which look like miniature sunflowers.
I thought they looked farm-ish.
There are other fun chicken feeder ideas out there in blogland.
Michael from Inspired By Charm made a gorgeous table centerpiece out of one of the long chicken feeders.
Rita at May Days uses one as a super cute plate rack.
And Daune at Cottage In The Oaks made a cute succulent planter out of a feeder similar to mine.
Have you caught the chicken feeder bug yet? Sort of like the bird flu, only more fun!
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Where did you get that little chalkware chicken??? I'm a little jeal... she's so cluckin' cute! I have a huge ceramic kitchen right next to my stove, but I've not seen a chalk one yet! Lucky find, girlfriend! You're the garage sale queen!
Jayne
I really love this use of a chicken feeder, so sweet!
Vickie @ Ranger 911
Love the green! What clever uses for chicken feeders! There must be an awful lot of skinny chickens out there. 🙂
rezeeg
do you do something special to help with the drainage? Love this - have 2 waiting in my garage to plant, NOW I will!
Pam
Rezeeg - Originally I didn't do anything special for drainage, but the first time it rained and it got really wet the bottom tray filled up with water, so I drilled a couple really small holes in it to let the water be able to run out. Since then it's been fine.