Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Hm, do chickens go under the pet category or, since you’re probably keeping them for eggs, maybe into the kitchen category? Or maybe chickens just defy blog categorization.

While you may think of keeping chickens as kind of a farmlands thing, there seems to be a trend toward having them in urban areas too. I know this has made the papers several times in Seattle in recent years. But if you’re going to have modern, urban chickens, then you’ll need a coup worthy of your yard in the city or suburbia.

Enter the Eglu.

“The eglu is a modern home for up to 4 medium size chickens or up to 6 bantams and is a stylish and practical addition to any backyard. Designed to be the house that the chickens themselves would choose, through its clever design the eglu also makes light work of the chores leaving you more time to enjoy these wonderful pets.”

And these modern coups are available in bright and cheery colors too. You can even order your eglu with chickens and feed included–everything you need to get set up housing your own chickens and collecting your own farm fresh (backyard fresh?) eggs every morning.

$500 from Omelet USA (via the Green Upgrader)