Hold on to your egg shells, farm sisters, because you might just …
CRACK UP
when you hear this:
Neiman Marcus has unveiled its 86th annual Fantasy Gifts collection, and, MERCY!
The selection this year had me sucking air in through my teeth, then exhaling it in a whistle.
Got your Christmas gift list handy?
Well, then, take a gander at this lil’ beauty:
The Beau Coop Heritage Hen Mini Farm (Photo courtesy of Neiman Marcus)
Who would’ve thought?
Those high-falutin’ city slickers
(bless their bejeweled hearts)
are elevating the age-old practice of backyard chicken farming to fine art.
Let me reiterate:
FINE art.
The price tag on the Beau Coop, in case you missed that discreet detail, is a cool …
$100,000!
That’s right.
Five zeros.
Granted, the Beau Coop is grand.
Who am I kidding?
It’s downright glam.
The farm-friendly folks out there in New York are wooing prospective poultry producers with a posh promo:
“Your custom-made multilevel dwelling features a nesting area, a ‘living room’ for nighttime roosting, a broody room, a library filled with chicken and gardening books for visitors of the human kind, and, of course, an elegant chandelier … You’ve always fancied yourself a farmer—now thanks to Heritage Hen Farm, you’re doing it in the fanciest way possible!”
(Photo courtesy of Neiman Marcus)
What chicken doesn’t crave her own chandelier?
Egg-straordinary, right?
To be fair, though, the Beau Coop Heritage Hen Mini Farm is not all feathers, fluff, and filthy-rich frivolity.
Really, now—stop that giggling.
For every Heritage Hen Mini Farm purchase, Neiman Marcus will donate $3,000 to The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that protects genetic diversity through the conservation and promotion of endangered breeds.
I’m all for that.
Just one question:
Does the coop come with a housekeeper?
Oh the things some people will do to help others. But to each his own. By the way, is this a hen house or a hen mansion? (tee, hee, hee!)
I saw this last week on Cv online and thought, what are you kidding? Does it come with a/c and a grounds keeper? After I got over the sticker price, I have to admit it is really a cool hen house!
Awesome, looks like something I could live in much less the chickens, it is awesom.
Looks like a nice “affordable” house for…me! We had chickens when I was a kid, and I don’t remember them being all that glamorous. I remember a lot of stinky smells, flying feathers, and lots and lots of manure to haul out one wheelbarrow load at a time. We kept our chicken coop nice and clean, but I can’t imagine storing my canning in there like they show in the picture! On the upside, anything to encourage people to farm is great!
how utterly absurd!
Shades of Queen Victoria’s chicken coop! I saw an old lithograph of it online somewhere’z. How the English love their poultry. When my folks went to Plymouth years ago (to hook up with shirt-tail relatives), my momma noted that free-range eggs in restaurants were much more expensive and highly prized. Mom’s 1st words were “Chicky dink” – due to a print in their house that featured a little girl offering a pan of water to a baby chick. Grandma LOVED chickens. By the time I came along, arthritis no longer let her keep up with a milk cow and chicken chores. She made the best fried chicken EVER and she often said to me with a wink, “If you knew what a chicken ate, you’d never eat a chicken.” 🙂 Chickens are the catfish of the feathered kingdom … ok, maybe vultures place first. Much emphasis is put on keeping a clean coop and fresh food for hens, correctly true, but Grandma’s statement was true to the chicken’s basic nature … OH, how they love to freely scrounge and forage!!
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