Yesterday the Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I headed out early to check out the Seattle Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour. There were so many coops and gardens to see it was crazy fun!
To be honest, I don’t think I have ever seen so many pampered chickens before in my life. Not only were these hens happy, but quite a few of them were wanting to be held and petted too.
The chicken coops on the Seattle chicken coop tour were a cool mix of recycled urban hipsters coops, to full out designer chicken coops {although we didn’t find the $100,00 chicken coop anywhere!}.
And there were gardens, lots and lots of gardens. Everything from raised garden boxes to mini farms.
One house we stopped by even had doves.
We also noticed rain barrels were pretty popular as well.
Here’s another coop. I think this one might have been my favorite.
Even though these people had 8 hens, the birds had oodles of room. The chickens could roost in the 2 story part of the coop, hang out in the covered area, or go sun themselves and take dirt baths in the uncovered sunny front part of the coop.
Look to the bottom left of this picture, you’ll see a sun shade. Can you imagine? How cute is that?
I don’t know though, if I was one of those pampered chickens living the good life in suburbia, I might just spend my days scheming up way to dig under the pen to escape to the garden to gobble up all the vegetables while the owners were sleeping. 😉
The Seattle Urban Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour was cool. I’m glad we went!
~Mavis
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