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Now that it's legal to have Chickens in Beaverton I am offering classes again. A two hour class to help you get started right if you plan on having your own happy flock of laying hens. Its a casual class with lots of wonderful information such as: How to choose the right breeds Raise baby...

I live in the suburbs of beautiful Portland, Oregon which has allowed small flocks of chickens as long as I can remember. Within the last year, on my side of town in Beaverton, the law recently changed to allow up to four backyard hens. I testified for it at city hall and followed the journey...

We are so excited as we added to our canine family this weekend!! We adopted her from a rescue as we feel its better to help an animal in need than buy one. She is a 2 year old Pembroke Welsh Corgi. She has more white than usual but is ALL corgi attitude! Her name is Mee Mee (it was...

UPDATE: I brought Miss Poppy back to the vet today thinking she would have a crop flush (or surgery) and upon re-exam and further discussion (I will leave out all the colorful poo descriptions) we both felt an x-ray was in order. The result was not good. Poppy's obstruction is not in her crop...

One of my Speckled Sussex (Poppy) pullet's comb is getting paler. Our other 4 girls have bright red combs and are laying regularly. We have never seen Poppy in the nest but we occasionally find a slightly darker colored egg that is a bit smaller than the other girls so we suspect it's hers...

Our 14 year old cat was diagnosed with Lymphoma a few weeks ago. She had been loosing weight and her blood tests showed very slightly elevated kidney enzymes so we put her on a kidney sparing diet. She continued to loose weight so we took her back to the vet and had more tests including an...

I had the urge to share as I am so bummed out that I hoped typing this will help. Two days ago I took our 14 year old cat, Amelia to the vets as she has been losing weight. She had hyperthyroidism 3 years ago and we treated with a radioisotope (I131) and she did great and has bouncing around...

You gotta see this if you LOVE critters!!

I have been working on my coop page the last few days and it obviously is missing the "finished coop" picture and the "plans" at this time but I wanted some input. Is it too wordy? Are the photos helpful (some are a bit dark)? Too many pictures? Not enough pictures (other than finished coop...

I realized I never took photos of my coop once it was painted. I also now realize I forgot to take a photo of the "human" door on the side, silly me. Oh well here is what I have: These are all childproof locks--almost adult proof at times, LOL. This is the 'expand-o" run (my term as...

My 5 pullets are 19 weeks old today. Beatrice, my BR is the only one showing a marked difference by getting redder and larger comb and wattles ( ). None of them are doing the rooster squat. I am getting really antsy as we are also going on vacation in 2 weeks! I want to be here for their...

I notice EEs have various shank colors (they are mixed breeds after all) and wonder if the color of the shank gives a strong clue to the egg color they will lay? My EE, Agnes has very green shanks and I was hoping she would lay a color other than brown. I'll still adore her anyway but its fun...

I have 5 healthy 9 week old pullets. One of them has a cross-beak who can eat great now but most likely will need a deep trough to continue to do well. I also am going to start them on a locally sourced organic mash which doesn't come in pellets or crumbles. The issue is that my hanging feeder...

I wasn't sure where to put this topic--hope its OK here. I have five healthy pullets who turn 9 weeks tomorrow and have been in their coop since 6 1/2 weeks of age. They "nap"on their roost in the run (when not laying in the sun in the sand ) and the bigger one in the hen house but do not...

Little super sweet and friendly Agnes is seven and a half weeks old. She was out a week ago and I saw what I think might be ---saddle feathers??!? Could these actually be saddle feathers starting to show up at this early age?? They are rounded at the edge and so are her ( ) hackle feathers...

I have worried a bit about Hyacinth, my BLRW with a scissor beak that we first noticed at 4 weeks of age. The cross beak is worse and I am posting a picture from yesterday. She still eats and drinks really well and acts fine. However, I also noticed wattles developing--is that normal at 6...

I noticed a few of our gals who are 5 1/2 weeks old had a few of their tail feathers looking a little raggedy Tuesday morning, hmmm. Last night I noticed 3 feathers in the pen! Only 3 have the issue--Beatrice the BR and Pearl and Poppy the Speckled Sussex girls--which means Hyacinth the BLRW...

Well it had to happen someday soon--so why not today? I pulled the plug five hours ago and all is well! Our 5 darling girls are 5 weeks old tomorrow which means they can be at 70 ish degrees! Our little ladies have lots of feathers--even getting them on their heads so I thought I'd try to turn...

I have a beautiful 4 week old BLRW with a slight cross beak. It was unnoticeable when I got her as a 2 day old chick. She is very standoffish and I try not to stress her by picking her up. The other 4 chicks ( 2 SS, 1 BR and 1 EE) are very friendly and gregarious--they run to me whenever I am...

I am getting ready to buy our new chicks their "grown up" feeders and waterers. We have 5 chicks and may add 2 more in a year or two. I want plastic waterers as I will periodically use ACV and it'll rust the metal ones. The feeder however, is a different story. I want to be able to clean it well...