Recent content by KlynneL

We have 12 Buffs that are 19 weeks old, they are starting to sing their egg song, but no eggs yet. Can't wait for them to start laying, then we'll have 23 layers, and in a couple weeks my RIRs are due to start. They are already bigger than my Buffs and they are 3 weeks behind them.

Just an update. I consider us very blessed. When we started on this chicken journey in March, we bought 12 three day old chicks from our local grange. My husband raised chickens when he was in high school and remembered that you were lucky to keep the majority alive to maturity. Sure enough, one...

Central Point is quite a ways from the fires, but the smoke is very bad. The fires are close to 20,000 acres now, and some are converging. People to the north of us have had to evacuate, and they are telling us to stay indoors, or use respirator masks. My hubby has one that our daughter got for...

I wish we did have a basement, but we live on a floodplain. We've been watering as much as we can, but we are on a well and in the middle of a dry spell. Our creek is even dried up. We have the hot tub filled, and are doing what we can.The aerial bombers were out for a bit today, but the smoke...

Right now we are more concerned with our animals and homestead. We have a place to take them if we have to evacuate, but the air quality isn't much better there. We live in Southern Oregon and have several big fires surrounding us.

Hi, I'm new to posting (been lurking for a while now.) But we have a real emergency here. Our valley is surrounded by fires, some are as close as five miles from us, and the air quality is hazardous. We only have a chicken tractor for our 12 pullets, and we are concerned that the smoke is bad...