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Yes Swiss chard can be fed to chickens. There is a long list of potentially toxic plants for chickens. You can find them online. My backyard has a number of potentially toxic plants that are on the list. I did worry but my chickens been fine. So far, I haven't had any problems. I have...

I meant unfenced vegetable garden. My chickens love zucchini, cucumbers and tomatoes but don't recognize the first two as they get them cut up. So tomatoes have a fence around them.

Welcome to Oregon! Hope you enjoy St. Helens. You helped me so much when I got chicks for the first time. Haven't logged in as everything is going well. One of my chickens even flies to perch on my arm. The girls were co-existing with my u fenced vegetable garden until last week. It's been so...

Salem is inexpensive for housing compared to Portland which has become very expensive. Though Portland celebrates its chickens, I think the limit might still be six. Salem allows 6 chickens, no roosters and chickens are supposed to be supervised if out of the coop. But the ordinance is...

Hi Stephanie, My girls LOVE Scratch and Peck. They seem to be doing well on it. Lifesource has their layer feed. Think Wilco is having a sale now. The Stayon store also carries it. I haven't tried peanuts yet. Always looking for new treats. You will have to meet the girls sometime!

Yep knock wood all around. Tonya WILL make house calls to Salem for $25/hour! We should have a class down here. All 3 girls are laying. My SLW has been sporadic but here are eggs from each of the girls yesterday:

Sorry your husband was squeamish about all the disease details. It didn't phase me either. And I ended up calling Tonya last night as my EE hadn't laid in 3 days and I was worried she might be egg bound. She explained when they aren't laying their combs are paler. Which was true as I had taken...

How did the class go? So helpful for me. I will take her advanced class. Hope she brought her chickens to class!

This is the correct contact info on the chicken first aid classes. They were awesome!

Beginning, Advanced, and Chicken First Aid classes are being offered in Portland. Beginning is this Sunday, the 17th at 4 pm. Chicken First Aid is next Sunday at 5:30pm and the other classes are in February. You can check the calendar on the Urban Farm Store website for those dates in Feb...

Here is information on the gal who teaches chicken first aide. Tonya also makes house calls and omes out to help with chicken emergencies. There is another list serve: [email protected]/ Tonya will be teaching more classes at the Urban Farm Store in Portland next year. She gave...

Just went to a fantastic chicken first aide class at the Urban Farm Store in Portland by Tonya Meyer. She and her partner had 2 chickens and demonstrated how to bandage a chicken's foot for bumble foot, how to tape a broken wing, how to examine the vent. They explained how to splint a broken...

Google "chicken breeders near Portland". Phasian Farms is in Sherwood. Or check the thread on BYC on hatching fertile eggs from Trader Joes. Apparently quite a few can hatch!

I saw too many birds that looked unhealthy at the swap, I would be nervous buying unless I did a lot of research.

Wow. Saw the huge capons too. Hate this autocorrect. It kept changing capons to Capone. Would you mind sharing the name of the breeder you liked? I wish I had spent more time there. I did like one breeder but her cream legbar eggs were very pale. Lighter than my EE eggs. It does seem like some...

I enjoyed the swap and was also captivated by the cream legbars and silkies. I got lots of conflicting information about silkies from the breeders though. It was disappointing to see some unhealthy hens with bare raw red skin. Some hens just looked unhealthy. I know some were mounting but...

Thanks for this... For some reason, I thought the swap was Sunday and I would have missed it.

I'm going to the Poultry Swap in Corvallis this Sunday if anyone wants to meet there. Send me a PM if interested.

Yes I was worried yesterday. Not sure what to do other than bring them in the house. Yesterday I was adding a roost to their coop and heard the girls talking behind me. They wanted back in the coop. Possibly because it was smokey but who knows! They were so insistent, I put some treats on...

Salem.