Blooming Sunflowers

The sunflowers have been growing steadily in the heat as long as I keep them well watered.  I am happy to see that many of them are forming flower heads and they should start to really take off in the next few weeks.  One of them was in a hurry and made this beautiful flower.

Looks like I should have a lot of pretty flowers very soon!

Once these flowers finish blooming, I plan on saving their seeds to feed to my chickens this winter.  I will mix it with the corn and amaranth I grew as a supplement to their regular feed.  Home grown chicken scratch.  I'm sure they will love it!