My Pet Chicken Blog

Occasionally, we run into a customer who has a great story to tell, and we just want to share them with you. Here’s a profile of one of My Pet Chicken’s customers, Kathy Bishop, and her flock of backyard chickens: _________________________ My Pet Chicken Customer Profile: Kathy Bishop “You don’t look like you would have […]

We’ve never heard any meaningful reasons against keeping a small flock of pet backyard chickens. Objections to urban and suburban chicken keeping usually spring from basic ignorance or a lack of education about chickens, and occasionally just a plain lack of common sense. Below are the basic objections you will hear… and as you will […]

Oh, me, did I ever bite the bullet. One of my lovely chickens, a Campine/Black Marans cross named Hot Shot, developed a foot infection, commonly called bumblefoot. Off we go to the vet and she had surgery to open up the infected foot and came home to live in the house and get her daily […]

Chickens vs. Derecho: who’s the winner? We were eleven days without power as a result of the recent derecho, and as of Friday, July 13 2012, there are people here in my state without power still, although it is finally looking as if the number of people without is shrinking. (The power company, rather cruelly, keeps […]

When I go out in the morning to bring treats to my girls and collect our little egg gifts for the day, I’m greeted at the run door by hens begging for me to let them out. How could I turn down those sweet little faces?

It gets hot where I live – very hot (summer temps easily reach 115 degrees)!  Since I live in the desert and have an open (3-sided) coop, the flock’s feeder is always visible to the local birds.  To my dismay, my chicken coop has been plagued with sneaky sparrows early on in my chicken raising venture.  We’ve […]

If there’s anything I have a passion for, it’s baking.  When I find a recipe, or create a recipe, I find myself manipulating it repeatedly to see how many new creations can come from one base recipe.  Here I want to share with you my family’s favorite dessert, which calls for 4 eggs (I always […]