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Thank-you Cloverleaf! I look forward to going to the swap!

I thought I saw something here a couple of weeks ago here about the Canby Spring Chicken Swap. Is it happening? What are the dates? Thanks!!!!

Hmmm, I have been looking at it as 2 seasons. Dry Summer and Mud Season.

Good news, the local red tail has left the area. Bad news, a bald eagle has followed the steel head up the creek. My older flock will only 'free range' on the covered porch, the younger bunch venture out along the edge of the deck. When the roosters make an alarm call the hens are diving...

Noncentzer, Drove back from Eugene this evening, no snow up there or on the way south until I got withing a couple of miles of home, NE Douglas County. Oregon Trip Checked was very helpful this morning in deciding to make the trip up there today. Safe travels.

Welcome to BYC haleyd. I am SE of Eugene. Warning: the forum can be a little addictive.

Sorry if I repeated the info Zanna. I opted for cat food for the same reasons. It looked like good food but between the extra cost of it and the drive it was not practical for me. Yep, doing the right thing is not always the simplest!

Zanna I saw an Oregon milled, (Hood River or McMinville?) brand of layer feed with white fish meal (less oily fish) at the Back Yard Farmer on 5th in Eugene last year. Think they still carry it and they could tell you the brand so to find it closer to you. I supplement with cheap tuna cat...

Beautiful Delawares Zanna!

Rain has started! Yippee, down with the dust. Dang, here comes the mud.

Zanna, Last year I saw the Back Yard Farmer on 5th in Eugene carried an Oregon milled chicken feed that contained fish meal. I think it was made in Hood River. I am not finding the name of it on the shop's website, it you can get the name from the shop maybe there is a source closer to you...

Have not heard about the shad run but DH is going up to Diamond Lake to go trout fishing today. Have heard that has been very good trout fishing.

Starlight, what a great name for a roo! Gotta have some fun naming these boys, it will never hurt their feelings. Our Brahma roo, Ginger, learned his name before I learned his gender. It was another 6 weeks before my doesn't like the chickens DH realized what our 'special' crowing hen was...

The those sound like very cool ameraicana hens and roo. Of the 6 breeds I have the Brahmas are the calmest and most laid back. These are the hens I have visiting kids hold. They are a huge fluffy armful! Ginger, the accidental Brahma roo, is so much mellower compared to the EE roo, Edgar...

You are more than welcome Deanna! Let me know if there is another time that would work. Crazy4Brahmasm what kinds of Brahmas do you have? I have Buffs, would like to get Darks sometime.

How about black and white EE roo over Speckled Sussex? These hens are from a SS breeder, they are much bigger than my hatchery SS hens. The hatchery SS hens are in with a Buff Brahma roo. You are welcome to have some eggs for free, I am very curious what the chicks would look like. Need to...

Just posted this question over on the predator and pest section but was wondering if local folks had experience or opinions about using insecticidal soap in their coops. Yesterday I discovered the dog crate some of my hens use as a nest box had exploded with mites. I pulled the crate out of...

Waterdog2442! I have 3 two week old Buff Brahma chicks in the brooder from Far West Hatchery in Canby. They are growing fast, most notable, they are the quietest chicks I have had. The week one week Brahma chicks from a midwest hatchery that are in with them are are steady making the usual...

Thank-you Zanna! That is great to know.

I am planning on doing a thorough coop cleaning when/if the weather dries out and have been thinking of spraying oxine as a disinfectant. Does anyone know if it works on creepy crawly critters like mites in a coop? I understand dusting the birds is the first order of treatment, have not seen any...