The Clucking Hens of My Altadena Home
My Backyard Chickens Give Me Eggs—and Lessons in Life, Death, and the Pecking Order
Raising backyard chickens isn’t anything new for my wife, Anne, and me. We have lived in Altadena for 16 years and have had flocks for almost as long. Let me say up front that Anne is the supportive and suffering spouse in this story. And so I’ve inserted her comments in brackets […] throughout.
My father introduced backyard chickens into our family in 1960s Orange County. Back then, there were still some patches of agriculture—an orange grove, strawberry fields—near our Stanton home. Dad, who grew up in eastern Texas where …
