About Me

What is there to know about me! I grew up all over the place. When I was younger, I lived in Utah for 4 years. This was between the ages of 4 years old and 8 years old. This had the most impact on my love for animals. My grandmother owned a farm and I spent the majority of my time there. She had horses, and my Uncle had cows. Then grandma got some chickens and a turkey. These had been the days where I remember nothing but happiness. When we moved to Southern California, I did lose that for a short period of time as my grandma stayed in Utah for about a year. When she moved out this way, she brought her farm with her, but mostly just the horses.  At that time, I had forgotten about the chickens as I had my four-legged loves and couldn't be happier. 

Fast forward to teenage years when the visits to the ranch slowed down and life got crazy. I still loved animals and dreamed of working with them one day, but life just got in the way. I ended up graduating and somehow nailing a job at a huge game company. I worked there for over 13 years. In February of 2019 the company laid off over 800 employees and I was one of those employees. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. Here I was a single parent of two amazing children, jobless and wondering how I had gotten so far off track.  I decided it was time to go back to my roots and find happiness again. I am now a full-time student to become a Veterinarian Technician and maybe eventually a Veterinarian if I feel that is the way I want to go.  

I currently live in a city where you can only legally own hens, the amount is based on your property size. Roosters are sadly not legal. My neighbors have some ducks and because of that, and my love for farm animals, I decided I wanted some chickens. Convincing my family that chickens was a good idea was not always an easy process. Finally, this pandemic happened, and it was the nail in the coffin for my chicken dreams to come true. See we go through eggs like crazy in this house and even a few weeks of having to fight to find eggs made my years of asking for chicken’s sound less crazy.  Here we are in 2020, raising a flock of Olive Eggers with some Lavender Orpingtons. It was not an easy start as most of Southern California is on bird lock down due to Newcastle’s. I had to start with some eggs that didn't work out and then I found some people willing to sell some live birds as we are in the "Newcastle Free" zone of Southern California and here we are.. Blogging about chickens.