Wow! People are interested in chickens! I was incredibly pleased by our turn out for the Seattle Tilth Chicken Coop & Urban Farm Tour this past weekend! We had about 100 visitors- an impressive feat for a south-side location! I was so happy. We placed information signs in various locations around the coop and in a few locations (especially the parking strip and hillside where we wouldn’t be present to answer questions).
The tour was a week ago and since then I’ve been working and gearing up for vacation. Now we are on vacation again in North Carolina and I can breathe again.
Rather than tell you much more, I’ll give you a slide show of the garden that day. Enjoy!
Those must be some happy chickens. Nice looking garden too – how do you get the cauliflower to head up so nicely, and without any aphids? I get awful aphids whenever I plant it.
This slide show is awesome! I got to see some views of your garden that I had never seen. Now I feel like I have a better idea of how it all looks, and what it would be like to hang out there and drink cocktails.
Sounds like your chickens were quite popular!
Great pics. I totally want to do the wine bottle border.
Your run is badass! Well done. What do you put in the dust bath? We gave our girls sand, but it clumped and didn’t really work as expected.
Thanks! I am going to add gutters before the summer is over. Just dirt bottom with a bit of sand and some DE. Eventually I’ll add a bit more sand but haven’t gotten around to it yet. They aren’t really using it for the most part yet. We’ll see.
We are adding chickens – full grown birds that have to find a new home – this month. I grew up with chickens but it was in a place that is a lot dryer. We don’t live that far apart, west seattle, and I was wondering about mice and rats – have you seen more since you have had the birds? Do you pull their feed every night?
Rats are definitely a huge issue in Seattle with chickens. That being said, I haven’t seen a single one (or evidence of any). I am rat-phobic so monitor it a lot. Our food is kept inside the coop itself that I *usually* lock up at night. If we are out of town I leave it open as the run is raccoon-proof and it is easier for folks to keep an eye on the chickens if they don’t have to let them in and out.
Now that I have said that all I expect to be descended on by an army of rats and raccoons.
If you are interested in seeing our set up just let me know and I will show you around!
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