After the dog walk we grabbed a bite to eat and hit up our next community event. The 1st Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour was going on from 10am til 4:30pm on Saturday. We were both extremely excited about this event because of our recent interest in "backyard chickens" around the neighborhood.
About 3 months ago Jason noticed that a house that is on our normal walk with Bella had about 8 chickens in their backyard. We were extremely surprised to see this because we were both under the assumption it was illegal to have live poultry within city limits. Then shortly after this discovery we found out our neighbor across the street had chickens and suddenly it felt like chickens were popping up everywhere in Austin.
The Funky Chicken Coop Tour provided us with a back stage pass to having backyard chickens in Austin. We were able to talk with the owners, ask questions, and see a huge variety of different coops. It was such a blast! We ended up going to about 10 different coops and rated them on what we liked and disliked. Our favorite one happened to be a coop just a couple of blocks away from our house. We liked it because it had a fairly large chicken run area and also incorporated a garden to provide shade and nutrients for the chickens.
Our favorite coop...
The tour definitely inspired us to start looking into adding some new members to the Dzubinski household. Although we do need to get our nursery done first, Bella may need to prepare to adjust to more than a baby here in a few months.
This is a picture of another coop we found interesting. It's a called a tractor because it's on wheels and people move it around to get different parts of their yard fertilized by the chickens.
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I want chickens too! James thinks I'm nuts. It's all about the eggs for me.
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