Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel — Attraction in Half Moon Bay

I'm no country girl 🤠, so pardon my 🏙️ city-slicker culture shock, but I found this store so quaint and charming (much like the rest of Half Moon Bay). Surprise BUNNIES & CHICKS were the highlight of my day! 🐇🐰🐥🐤😍

They don't have much in the way of supplies for cats and dogs, but they have some very unique items for farm animals, rabbits, chickens and other birds, that I imagine would otherwise be difficult to find in a brick & mortar store. Wanna pick up chicks? Need a harness for your cock? They've got you covered! 🐣🐓

I heard one of the employees discussing chicken feed options with a customer, and while I know next to nothing about chicken feed, he sounded extremely knowledgeable on the subject!

Even if you don't need supplies, it's a great detour off the main strip to look around and feel like you just traveled back in time or teleported to another land.

Kids will for sure enjoy looking at the bunnies and baby chicks! 🐇🐰🐇🐣🐤🐥 I actually feel bad for them, as I doubt they enjoy the constant stream of strangers gawking and children squealing and trying to poke through the cage :/ but I have to admit they are adorable and I couldn't help myself. 😍

They had several Netherland dwarfs, 2 very large floppy-eared rabbits, a guinea pig, 2 types of chicks, ducks, and a mystery bird that we conjectured were baby turkeys. The chicks seemed to be available in 2 different age-groups.

When we approached the cash register, a lady placing what seemed to be a very large order at the counter was arguing over the price of some bag of feed. She seemed unsure of what she wanted, but had commandeered the attention of 2 employees at the register, and had them both engaged in a haggling dispute for several minutes. By the time she was pulling out her phone to try to justify her stance, another employee could see the long line forming, as well as the fact that it wasn't going anywhere any time soon. She peeked around the front desk and noticed that we only had 2 small items, and offered to "ring us up" if we could tell her the prices of each item. Thank goodness! Otherwise who knows how long we might have been stuck waiting behind that woman. You'd think that perhaps they'd have a separate area for placing long, involved orders, like a customer service desk or something, but I don't know how often they encounter that sort of problem. Here's hoping it was...

I'm going to add to my review that I lost some of my most valuable birds that I received as gifts from this place or purchase myself in the recent Heat Wave where I moved to and there are absolutely no feed stores or hatcheries that sell anything remotely near the quality that this place does so I actually am going to plan on driving 200 miles back to this place and purchasing either hatching eggs if I purchase chicks I will pray that they make the 200 mile Journey they probably won't or get there and spend the night out front when they're selling their 3-month-old Birds IS THE ONLY TOTALLY COMPREHENSIVE feed, bedding, enclosure building supply, riding tack & apparel ( babies to XXL Adults ), amazing variety of country flavoured, quality gift items ( the handmade stuff is definitely desirable eye - candy ), famous Breyer® Collectibles, free horseman's magazines, Hobby Farms CHICKENS monthly, small yet attractive variety of DIY/info./docu./ books, OTC medications, remedies & 1st Aid supplies for kennels, ranchers & farmers, store between Santa Cruz & Berkeley that I actually know of, that is still in continuous operation, actually for nearly 110 yrs. Feeding what feeds us , supplying our ponds & barnyards with a rich variety of healthy, outstandingly beautiful, carefully chosen fowl, ( there is a large focus on feathered stock as well as keeping our beloved performance & companion animals sleek & healthy, Since 1911. The staff is friendly, helpful & knowledgable. The only place I can recommend to pick up chicks from in San Mateo County. I raise chickens myself , ALL From HMB Feed ' n ' Fuel & they are all true champions at what they do. The list of animals that are served there is long but here goes: HORSES ( Equines) /Cows/Sheep/goats/swine/dogs/cats/rabbits/small reptiles/aquarium fish/amphibians/ guinea pigs/smaller rodent type pets/fish/ornamental birds ( finches, canaries, parrots, etc )/wild birds/chickens/turkeys/ducks/geese/game birds (...

Huge place for all your pet needs - horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, chickens, etc. etc. For backyard chicken aficionados, if you're looking to get your chicks early so that they will be laying by summer (fingers crossed), then this spot tends to get them earlier than other places. In fact, today we picked up three Plymoth Barres and two Rhode Island Red chicks. At $4.75 apiece, they cost more than what we're used to paying, which is around $3, but the advantage is you get them earlier. Time is money, as they say.

You can buy lots of feed by bulk here and the guy I spoke with was really informative about chickens. It's the spouse's hobby to keep backyard chickens (hey, the man doesn't drink, gamble or smoke -- I can let him have chickens) but lately they've been EATING their eggs. Gross, I know.

He recommended oyster shell feed, a fake egg and filling an egg with tabasco sauce (I guess even chickens can get their tongues burned?!?). They sold all of the above, except the tabasco sauce, I got that! So...