Great job Amber! I particularly love those fabulous wooden chairs that you transformed with one coat of paint. Love watching people do realistic makeovers on their homes...makes me feel I can do the same!
Your patio looks so nice! The view of your property is gorgeous! Wish I could help with the chickens. I think putting them back in their coop is your best bet. They’ll be happy there too. 🤗
You don't have to spend a lot of money either. A little love and elbow grease are the most effective elements to a lovely place. 95% of my outdoor decor is trash finds, thrifted, gifts or give away/shared plants.
I’d suggest a fence around the coup. I don’t know of anything to deter them, but if they messed up my flowers, we’d be having fried chicken for Sunday dinner. 😆 I love the rug and your updated chairs.
You worked so hard and your patio turned out beautifully, I would definitely be putting up a pen for the chickens, they will be just fine, there's no reason to let them destroy your yard! Tfs 🌷
They have a huge run attached to their coup...he just has always let them run though. We’ve decided to keep them in there in the warmer months when things are in bloom!
New to your channel. I have looked at over 20 diy videos and all they did was buy stuff and called it diy. I took your idea with the large blue pots and used it for a patio umbrella stand but, myflowers are fake 😊Love love those rockers.
Just found your video but I have a suggestion about chickens in your planters……find willow limbs or regular branches and place around in the pot edge and they’ll stay out….also take narrow pieces of wood and make a fence around the edge tying jute around it in whatever design you do….the plants grow thru it but before that the chickens won’t like the barrier and should stay away. Another idea is to buy a electric portable fencing as homesteaders do and move the chicken run around fertilizing and trimming the grass but don’t let them stay too many days in one spot. Your planter around the patio maybe place some of those stones on top of the mulch to keep them out. We get cats from the farms come and use our beds as litter boxes……I lay pine cones and put curly sticks in my pots…the beds get dark tulle you can buy cheap from Amazon by the yard and place around the beds……buying black would match your mulch…..this year I’m placing black cloth grow bags around my sitting area which use to have a swimming pool…..taking a round outdoor rug and placing it in the middle then the bags around as a border incorporating some old wood boxes for planters and some height. I’m using your idea for the pole bucket to hang lights off of …setting the bucket inside a box then having plants cascading down over the edges…. We are not raising chickens anymore…..too many predators and a lot of work so I buy from local egg sellers. Also we like to camp and no one is near us to farm sit.
Turned out very nice! Love the blue chairs! We mix hot sauce, garlic, Dawn dish detergent and water. Put in spray bottle and spray on plants to keep deer away. It works if you do it every time it rains or you get a heavy dew.
Hello, I like your patio area. I would plant some lobelia Laguna Dark Blue flowers between the hostas. It will carry on the blue that you love and it will help the hosta area look more fuller.
Not sure if this will work, but sprinkle some cayenne pepper around the flower beds. Try a 3ft barrier at first, then you can go to 1ft. This works for dogs, but maybe chickens, too? Worth a try.
Your patio turned out beautiful, what a great choice of color as well. I actually just used our pressure washer for the first time on our patio, house and front porch, it is now my new best friend! Always love your decorate videos...TFS and have a great weekend on your porch! Good luck with your 🐔 🐔🐔🐔
To keep chickens out of your tub flowers, make a decorative chickenwire cloche to go over the plants. Use heavy guage wire as a frame, or go rustic and use willow or branches from your yard (or the neighbor's yard) to create a frame, then line the frame with chicken wire and secure it to the post and over the pots. For the border, create a hoop cloche or if the chickens ignore the hosta leaves and just prefer the dirt, lay chicken wire over the dirt in 8x18-inch strips tacked down with turf staples. Overlap the strips and place around the stems of the potted plants (seeded plants with grow up through the wire). When you need to dig up of plant a new plant, just pull up the 8×18 strips overlaying the dirt you need access to. Chicken wire will also prevent squirrels from digging up fresh bulbs.
Your patio turned out beautiful...I love watching your videos I always get so much inspiration from them thank you so much for putting in i am sure a lot of hard work into your videos hope you have a wonderful rest of the week...
Don't worry, I also had to put my foot down and keep the chickens in their own yard instead of mine lol. They were destroying my expensive rose bushes and eating all of our stuff no matter what I did! To make your husband feel better, they all still lay an egg a day for us even though they don't get the whole yard 😊
Love the redo. Looks good. Hope your family enjoys the outdoors this summer. The chickens are a whole other problem. Maybe you could put some chicken wire around your plants. Or something like that. Hope someone has a better idea. Good luck. 🦋🦋💓
it's all neatly done... the side boards by the wall colored dark brown?? maybe if the down part should also be painted same dark brown it'll look different and place some white pebbles along side the back of rocking chairs it'll be lookin nice too.. only suggesting.. more lil potty green plants on table tops the Lil side table hanging plants could do .. greenery makes a lot of difference really... thank yu... YUR guards dogs are beautiful too... chickens are fatty nice.......
With our chickens we used to sit outside for a hour or so a day and just spray them away with the hose until they learned. Chickens are smarter than you think!
I would be chasing those chickens with the hose and a broom. Definitely might affect their egg laying but I would be steamed if they chewed up all my plants. Wish I had a better idea for you to keep them away. Thank you for sharing 🙏🇨🇦
Your patio looks amazing. You are going to have way more seating space once you get the ac unit moved! I can't help you on the chickens...maybe build them their own enclosed run with some yummy planted goodies just for them. There are few ideas on Pinterest.
Very nice.. I think Jeri Landrs( she is on you tube) uses chicken wire to gently lay over the plantings to keeper chickens away. Look her up she is so creative with the chicks ha
It looks really good Amber! I love your chairs. Your chickens are gonna tear up your flower beds. I would put them behind a fence and let them run about. Animals will tear yp everything you have. Anyway you did an awesome job. Stay safe! God Bless!
Well then we must have some seriously strange chickens! Because our chickens will eat anything and everything including marigolds, spearmint, peppermint and even our roses!
Yes we have chickens too 17 of them,.I only let mine out when I'm out...so I can chase them away when they go near where I don't want them...our plants...they lay the same amout of eggs no matter what one a day!! Mine seem just as happy as when I left them out nonstop and my garden and flowers r actually thriving!! Or stick to high plants only I guess!!
Hi Amber, really enjoyed your video. Ask your husband if he has ever heard of the phrase, " Happy Wife, happy life" ? Lol, Fence those chicks in, give enough room to run around and they will still lay enough eggs for your husband to be happy and you'll finally have a beautiful patio to be proud of. By the way, I love your blue chairs and the rug. They came out gorgeous!! Can you tell me the name and brand of the paint agin please ? I love it!😍 of the
My daughter also has a home in the country they built and also has chickens...they destroy her gardens and mulching. After several cry sessions she stopped letting them out to range.
You could try using bird netting or chicken wire over top of your plants to keep the chickens out. It might not be as pretty to begin with but once your plants begin to grow and get taller they will grow through the wire or netting and it will barely be noticeable then. I've done this in the past when we had chickens and it worked well for me. I mean the chicken are mostly after the insects and worms in the soil. That's for your flower containers, but I don't know what to do for the larger plants such as Hosta. Sorry. Maybe some help is better than no help. lol xx
Good luck! Hopefully it works for you because it hasn't worked for us, actually the only thing that's kept our chickens out of our plants is keeping the chickens penned up and now we're actually starting to get flowers and a decent looking garden!
I would fence off the property on the other side of the bridge so the yard by the house was family use and not chicken use. It seems you have more than enough area for them across the bridge.
My grandfather kept his chickens free ranged and they stayed pretty much in the back of the back yard . When they would occasionally ventured in the front yard he would run towards them and flap his arms and yell in his gruff voice. They learned to stay out of the front yard.
There would be no question at my house about the chickens! They would be gone in a heartbeat! Pretty flowers & nice landscaping is better than chickens!! Hands down! Buy eggs at grocery store!