Chicken pottery – My new, cool thing September 6, 2012
We as a family are generally pretty frugal. We like making the most of what we get into the house. This goes double for our foods. We like to use fresh vegetables as often as we can. In an effort to follow my Mom’s wise mantra “waste not, want not”, we give the scraps from prepping meals to the girls. But, often because we don’t have a dedicated container for this, we sometimes fill up a plastic container (perhaps a leftover sour cream container or coffee container)… and then we forget about it. Oh, no! Wasted veggies languishing… forgotten and thrown away, instead of making their way to the flock to be enjoyed and appreciated by the ladies. I needed a solution. What I came up with was Chicken Pottery.
Chicken Pottery, right? I really need to wall off that area of the patio from them.
But thus my Chicken Pottery was envisioned. I made my Chicken Scrap Bowl with a lid so that I can keep it neat and tidy on my counter without attracting bugs during the day. Plus it’s a dedicated spot for these scraps, instead of random containers that get thrown away by mistake or forgotten. It’s big enough for a single day of gathering the scraps from the prep work for meals. But it’s small enough to not take up a ton of room on my already limited counters. And as a bonus, it’s in a color that I like versus a bright color that just doesn’t tickle my fancy.
Ta-Da!
How do you manage kitchen scraps for your flock?
Genius. I must mention this to my potter friend, as this kind of container could easily double as a casserole dish, but she could sell it as a chicken scraps collection spot, too!
I have a small rooster-shaped dish that lives on the counter and is fine for the small stuff. Bigger piles go into another dish–not plastic, no lid–and go straight out to the chickens after prepping a meal. With 2 of us taking things out, nothing piles up or is neglected to the rotten in Denmark state. We also compost, so rotten stuff could go straight there.
I have a two quart bean pot that was my grandmother’s. One side has a crack which I am reluctant to test in an oven. It does, however, make a great scrap collection container for our flock! It looks great on the counter too!
I think I would like to see a chicken picture on it. Maybe drawn into the pot or stenciled onto it. I think that could be a nice finishing touch , not that plain is not ok too..
Our chicken run is directly outside the kitchen window, so no container needed! When the chickens hear that window open, they know that treats are on the way and come running!
I love it! I currently use what looks like a baby silver trash can. It’s actually to be used for items to be composted, but I use it for the chicken scraps. My kitchen is stainless steele and black, so this little silver can goes very well with my decor. I keep it right next to my sink. I think I would like the pottery container better, tho!
We use a bright red folgers coffee container that we keep in the fridge since they are generally asleep when we generate scraps, in the morning I bring it out before work and grab it to bring back inside when I get home. Works great.
I love, love, love this! Even if you aren’t a potter – how about a fun trip with the kids or a girlfriend to a Color Me Mine or other such shop? Pick out a suitable container, paint it how you like and… Voilà! Super-cute, personalized chicken scrap container and a little quality time with your person of choice.
Love it! It looks lovely. So cool when you can make your own. Put them in an Etsy shop and it would make a great gift. (After getting one for your self of course) Hmm, that color would look great in my kitchen also!
We’ve got a silver stockpot for kitchen compost and a smaller for chicken scraps. I put the bread, meat and other bits that wouldn’t go in the compost into that one and when it’s full I dump it in an old wagon sitting in their yard. The “compost” goes into the compost heap, which they scratch around in. I do the separate scraps to cut down on raccoons and skunks that might find leftover pizza yummy.
Who knew that Rachel Ray would inspire chicken pottery!
Great idea and now I want one too!
I reuse the gallon plastic ice cream tubs that have a handle and lid. I just keep it under the kitchen sink. Plus when that tub gets shabby, I have an excuse to buy more ice cream
I have a dear friend who keeps all her scraps for me too…she puts them in bags (recycling whatever she has at the time) and puts them in the freezer. Then she will call me when she has enough for me to swing by and pick up..girls loved the frozen treats this summer. One day her husband (who will be buried tomorrow
) saw an Oreo bag in the freezer and thought he had hit the jackpot, but was disappointed and confused when he found apple peels and cores…he told her he was beginning to think he needed to take her to the doctor to be tested for Alzehimers….
I just use a cheep plastic container with handels I might have got it at goodwill plus it is pretty thick
We have a pie tin with a plastic cake cover over it!
WOW, did you sculpt that chicken yourself?
I don’t wait for my care-taker to figure out where to put the scraps; I just hop on the counter and snatch them.
Yeah…I wish I had that kinda talent. Although if she doesn’t get out of the way when the wheel is spinning, she sometimes gets splashed with clay water. It’s a mess to clean off of any of them.
She loves to get in the way of pottery time.
What gets me is she doesn’t always wait for me to get my project off the bat either! She jumps up there whne I am looking for a bag to tent over it with so it can dry…sometimes I have little peck holes in things where she’s checked it out.