Chickens in the City!! UPDATE - Found one!!

[Frisco Farmer]

I am crazy about chickens. I live in the heart of San Francisco, and I have a 12 year old Buff Brahma bantam and 3 pullets (one each Easter Egger, Buff Orpington, and Black Australorp), all raised from day-old chicks. I also had a beautiful, gentle, lap-sitting Cuckoo Maran in the recent batch--so sad the day when "she" turned out to be a "he." I joined BYC to find a chocolate egger in the Bay Area to complete my egg basket.

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

A very warm welcome! I hope you enjoy it here! I sure am!! Oh, and Australorps and EE's are some of my favorites too! Especially EE's! But then, you can see my avatar..

 

[HHandbasket]

Hi! You are most definitely in the right spot. I'm not too far from you myself over here in Sacramento, though there are a lot of people here on BYC who live closer to the City.

There's going to be a bay area meetup/chicken swap coming up in a couple of months. Look for it on the meetup/chickenstocks forum.

Again, welcome to BYC! The most addictive forum online.

 

[CMV]

from NH. Glad you could join us. You have a 12 y.o. chicken? Lots of people are going to be curious about her (him?). A frequent question around here is how long a chicken will live. Not too many folks have such an elderly bird. You must have taken good care of it for such longevity.

 

[The French Hen]

From Tarpon Springs, Florida...

A 12 year old chicken sounds to me like you know exactly what to do and how to raise chickens.
One day I may know that stuff too....

 

[desertdarlene]

Hi! I'm new, too, and into ducks. I wish we could keep chickens (and ducks) in our yards in San Diego, but I think they have an ordinance against that now. When I first moved to California almost 30 years ago, I used to see them in people's yards all the time, but I don't anymore.

 

[alaskachick]

from Alaska

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

from Tucson, AZ!