Chickens!!

Raleigh has a booming chicken coop population! In fact, it is so popular that there is an official event every year: Hen-side the Beltline Tour D’Coop!

From the tour’s website….

The Tour D'Coop is a one-day garden tour in Raleigh, North Carolina, that seeks to educate visitors about keeping hens and delight them with garden ideas and inspiration. Open to adults and children, the tour showcases various hen houses and breeds. Coop owners are on hand at each location to discuss the how-tos of chicken keeping and there are opportunities for photographing and getting to know the chickens. The wide variety of coop styles as well as the surrounding back yard gardens make the tour interesting for the whole family.

All tour proceeds benefit the Urban Ministries of Raleigh.

Anyway, as I have blogged about before here, my brother-in-law and sister-in-law have a coop with 8 hens. This was their first year on the tour and while we didn’t go on the tour this year, we went to their house later that afternoon for a shrimp and crawfish boil.  Yummmm!!! Of course Avery was dressed for the occasion!

Here are a few pictures from the afternoon. I guess I was too busy peeling shrimp to take a lot of pics!