Care guides
• Chicken Care Booklet from Animal Place
• Chicken Care Guide from The Open Sanctuary Project
• Guide to Chicken Care from My Pet Chicken
• Adopting and Caring for Backyard Chickens from HSUS
• Biosecurity for Birds from USDA (check out Healthy Harry's videos)
Health
• The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition, by Gail Damerow
• PoultryDVM, visual and interactive poultry health information
• California Animal Health & Food Safety (offers cheap medical tests)
• Animation video of the full digestive system
• Animation video of the formation of an egg in a hen
• Animation video of the development of a chicken embryo in the egg
Miscellaneous
Fun stuff
• "Pecking" the Queen of Heart out of a deck of cards (video)
• Silicon Valley Tour De Coop (September 15, 2018)
Others
• Bay Area Chicken Keepers facebook group
• BackYard Chickens forum
• Lots of interesting info from The Happy Chicken Coop and The Chicken Chick
• About Chickens from HSI
• Toxic Plants to Chickens (+ Safe Plants)
• Safe Housing for Chickens
• Adopt - Don't shop flyer (feel free to print and post)
• School hatching projects dilemma and alternatives
Local resources
(San Francisco South Bay Area, CA)
Chicken laws and ordinances.
Vets working with chickens (*: board certified avian vets)
• Cupertino Animal Hospital - 10026 Peninsula Ave, Cupertino - (408) 252-6380
• Monterey Avian and Exotic Clinic - 451 Canyon Del Rey Boulevard, Del Rey Oaks - (831) 647-1147
• All Animals Mobile Veterinary Clinic - 1600 S Cabrillo Hwy, Half Moon Bay - (650) 726-3445
• Miramonte Veterinary Hospital - 1766 Miramonte Avenue, Mountain View - (650) 962-8338
• Medical Center for Birds * - 3805 Main Street, Oakley - (925) 625-1878 - this is where we go
• Pescadero Veterinary Services - 725 North St, Pescadero - (650) 879-0653
• East Petaluma Animal Hospital - 1420-B South McDowell Blvd, Petaluma - (707)765-9098
• Wildwood Veterinary Hospital - 2900 Spring Street, Unit 5, Redwood City - (650) 366-9453
• Bay Area Bird Hospital * - 2145 Taraval St, San Francisco - (415) 566-4359
• For the Birds - 1136 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose - (408) 255-1739
• 24/7 Veterinary Emergency Group - 725 Ridder Park Dr, Suite 85, San Jose - (408) 834-8180
• West Valley Pet Clinic - 1360 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose - (408) 996-1155
• 24/7 Veterinary Emergency Group - 2431 San Ramon Valley Blvd, San Ramon - (925) 718-7771
• Santa Clara Pet Hospital - 830 Kiely Blvd, Suite 107, Santa Clara - (408) 296-5857
• Animal Hospital of Soquel - 2651 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz - (831) 475-0432
• Exotic Pet Clinic of Santa Cruz - 5400 Scotts Valley Dr, Suite B, Scotts Valley - (831) 440-8590
• Sunnyvale Veterinary Clinic - 1036 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale - (408) 736-8296
• more vets can be found in PoultryDVM's directory
• more board certified avian vets can be found on the ABVP website
Shelters taking chickens in
• Humane Society Silicon Valley (also offers humane euthanasia)
• Palo Alto Animal Services (also adopts chickens out and offers humane euthanasia)
• Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA (also adopts chickens out and offers humane euthanasia)
• San Jose Animal Care and Services
• Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter (also adopts chickens out and offers humane euthanasia)
Feed stores
• Aptos Feed & Pet Supply, Aptos
• cHICK n bEES, Los Gatos
• Ganado Feed & Pet Supplies, San Jose
• Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel, Half Moon Bay
• Peninsula Feed Store, Redwood City
• Waggin Tails Pet Supplies, Los Altos
• Westside Farm & Feed, Santa Cruz
Also check your local pet stores as many can custom order chicken feed.