Our store chickens, Buffy and Zelda the Buff Opringtons, and Mini and Paula the Ameraucanas, have gone home for the winter, but we just got a whole new flock of metal found-object chicken sculptures from Jim Billmeyer to take their place.

Unlike real chickens, Nathan's found-object welded creations don't mind snow. They are perfectly at home in the garden or in a home. They are made with a ecclectic assortment of old kitchen implements, farm equipment, tools, baskets, bowl and rebar. And attitude. They all have a lot of attitude. Kind of like real chickens.

The picture at the top shows some of Nathan's flock frolicking around with a whole lineup of welded chicken objects. We only have half a dozen or so, but if you're into that kind of thing, we think you'll fall for at least one of them.