Oregon

[primal woman]

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I was there at the threshing too. He does a great job.

It was great my friend is a member of the Draft Horse Club and does CDE's so she took me along. I show Hunters and Hunter Under Saddle so it was all very new to me be completely amazing. I fell in love with his Brabant, I am pretty sure that I need one now

. Your signature says that you have a horse for transportation, did you drive your horse to the threshing?

Yes, I did. She takes me everywhere I need to go as long as it is doable.

 

[tallyho]

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It was great my friend is a member of the Draft Horse Club and does CDE's so she took me along. I show Hunters and Hunter Under Saddle so it was all very new to me be completely amazing. I fell in love with his Brabant, I am pretty sure that I need one now

. Your signature says that you have a horse for transportation, did you drive your horse to the threshing?

Yes, I did. She takes me everywhere I need to go as long as it is doable.

I have an ex-Mennonite friend who's cousin logs with draft horses. How cool is that!?

 

[Ohne-Fehler]

Primal Women- I’m pretty sure that I remember seeing you and your mare there; we had an Irish Wolfhound with us. That’s very cool that you utilize your horse for transportation.

Tallyho- That is very cool, I actually had a roommate/ teammate in college who’s family logged with draft horses here in Oregon. They have less impact than heavy machinery so they are great for restoration projects and sensitive areas.

Here are a couple pictures that I took at the threshing.

 

[beatua]

Hi all,
I am new to the area and new to raising chickens (we have 9, 3 EEs, 3 barred rocks, 3 rhode island white) and we're looking to get 25 chicks here pretty soon. We're in the Hillsboro/Beaverton area. Was curious if any of you have any thoughts on good ways to get inexpensive feed and bedding? Right now we are getting it from a place called coastal farm and ranch, feed is about $13/50#s. We are using straw at about $7 bale of straw for bedding.

Nice to meet you all.
Mark

 

[tallyho]

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Welcome!

I like to buy my feed from Patriot Farms in Washington, just off the 5 on the way to Seattle. The chickens love it! It's a mash of their own formulation and it's only $12/50lbs. My husband has to drive to Seattle often and he'll stop on the way home and pick up a few bags. I don't know about bedding though. They might have straw bales too but I use rice hulls and pine shavings which I buy from Concentrates, Inc. (http://www.concentratesnw.com/products/Retail Master.pdf). I wonder if there is a better source for pine shavings than the 12cf bales?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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That's about the same as what I pay at Wilco.

 

[beatua]

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Thanks, at least I know I'm paying similarly to others. I'd love to find something that I can buy in bulk for lower cost (especially bedding).

Mark

 

[tallyho]

Gotta love those mixed hens! I just got a pullet egg from Chip, who, by the way, the experts here told me was a cockerel! She's only 16 weeks old! I have no idea what she's a mix of because her eggs came from a Sauvie Island U-pick farm! My Australorp, Francesca, went broody for the 4th time last summer and I finally gave in and gave her eggs on Memorial Day. Fran hatched 2 baby girls, Chip and Aggie. She's not very big and which makes me think her daddy was the dandy OEGB rooster who was hanging around the hen house. Yaaaay Chip!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Congrats!!!

 

[tallyho]

Thank you. And today...Aggie, other other 16 week old mix, layed her 1st egg! They both layed brown eggs but Chip's egg looks a lot like my Welsummer's.