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  • Make your own frosted animal cookie snack mix using the gluten-free animal cookie recipe that came out on the blog last week! To make a simple frosting for your animal cookies you just need two ingredients:

~ organic powdered cane sugar
~ dairy-free milk

Start by putting the desired amount of powdered sugar (I usually start with 1/2 cup) in a glass mixing bowl. Then slowly add some dairy-free milk (about 1 teaspoon at a time) and whisk it in until a thick frosting/glaze forms. Spread the frosting on the animal cookies and allow the frosting to harden for 2 hours before making your snack mix!

For my snack mix, I added homemade mini funfetti cookies (coming in the updated verson of the Cookie Cookbook!), cocorolls, Unreal chocolate gems, gluten-free pretzel twists, Lily's Sweets white chocolate chips, and organic peanuts. 

https://www.thepioneerchicks.com/gluten-free-homemade-animal-cookies/

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  • Training your chickens is easier than you think! And sometimes, they train you without you even realizing it! I love that all of my birds are trained to come when called so I can easily put them in after an evening of free-ranging. Find out my chicken training tips on the blog:

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But when I had two Buff Orpingtons go broody and I had a carton of fertile eggs in storage, I figured I'd set up the brooding pen. I moved one of the hens to the pen and she took right to the nest. Check out my guide on caring for a broody hen while she's nesting:

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  • This was the recipe that started it all... once I found out that I could make my own animal cookies (that were even better than the store-bought versions!) the options were endless for fun snacks! 

These vanilla animal cookies are my base recipe, but using this recipe you can get creative and make all sorts of flavors. I've made lemon poppyseed, chocolate chip, peanut butter, orange creamsicle, and frosted animal cookies using this recipe!

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