Suburbhen - A Hen in the City

Peck, if you can't reach the door bell Celeste expected to be able to come into the house whenever she wanted to but entering via th...

Reynah the Diabetic Hen I never thought about diabetes in chickens.  How do you even treat diabetes in a chicken?  Reynah came in to ...

Celeste - the beginning of a Legend   This little hen is my most talked about of all of the girls.  Anyone who knew me at this time reme...

Celebrating Ruby   Today would have been the 4th birthday of Ruby, our gorgeous, black, Pekin bantam hen.  Ruby passed away 11 days ago ...

Did you know that birds do not have a diaphragm?  That lovely body part which allows people to overeat at Christmas, women to carry lovely, ...

December 18 2005 was the day I met the dirtiest chick of my life.  Having accidentally chosen a rooster a couple of months previously, I s...

Why chickens? I don't have a farm, I have a city block. Less than 500 square metres in suburban, coastal Perth, Western Australia - a...