Oregon

[iwiw60]

Anyone else been getting down to freezing at night besides me? Here in La Pine it reached 38 two nights ago, and last night it was 34....winter's coming!

 

[LittleRedCoop53]

Anyone else been getting down to freezing at night besides me? Here in La Pine it reached 38 two nights ago, and last night it was 34....winter's coming!

No freeze here in Southern Oregon yet....but i felt the crisp air this morning...yes...fall is in the air
We sure need the rain

 

[iwiw60]

No freeze here in Southern Oregon yet....but i felt the crisp air this morning...yes...fall is in the air
We sure need the rain

Yes, rain would be nice for sure...soooo dry!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

We borrowed this nifty tool from our nursery to attach chicken wire to cattle panels for a modular hoop coop idea we're going to build for temporary cockerel housing.

 

[BearDrummer]

Tridentk9 asked for a picture of Alcatraz, the Barred Rock they helped name... so here it is...

 

[BearDrummer]

Hen Solo! I love it!!

Yes, my daughter is very clever... and a bit cruel... "Omelette" was her idea, too.

 

[Farmer Viola]

Hey need some chicken advice! First I have a chicken acting weird usually she is robust and very loud now she hangs in the coop and actually let's us hold her without screaming also if I put her out side she goes and hides any thoughts on what this is? Also my chickens are not laying! I have 12 hens and I am only getting three eggs a day! Which is really odd anything going on that I need to be aware of?

as someone else mentioned, they will usually stop laying before they start molting.. usually around 12-16 mos, how old are yours?

another idea, it is the season for mites and they can severely impact egglaying. you can look on the underside of the roosts for tiny black bugs with white eggs. if they are feeding on your hens they may look like red bugs. they stay on the roosts, and feed on the hens at night. if you want to check the hens for mites, pull them off the roost at nighttime.

as treatment for mites, I spray with neem oil and fumigate with cayenne. there are also insecticides like Sevin-5 that you can use directly on the hens if they are infested. good luck!

 

[clport]

What's everyone doing for their chickens and livestock near the fire in Estacada? I'm in Oregon City and the air quality is terrible. My barn is being demolished and rebuilt right now, so I don't have anywhere to put my goats and horse indoors. I can bring my pair of Lavender Orpingtons inside the house if it gets much worse, but I'd sure hate to have to do that. My dachshunds would go balistic over my rooster!

Good luck and good thoughts to the folks closer to the fire than me.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I'm in luck for now. The evacuation area for the Onion Mountain fire is 4 miles past our place and the breeze is blowing the smoke away from us. Last year when we had terrible smoke I just tried to keep them calm and distracted. We didn't loose any even we were in the "Hazardous" category for 10 days. I remember driving by road construction where they were putting down new black top and not even noticing the smell.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

A while back I think I posted photos of some Freedom Mutt chicks that hatched here (a surprise clutch of chicks we discovered outside the poultry run this spring which had been brooded under a bush in the yard). One of those chicks was an absolutely adorable half black/half white bird we named Penguin.

Here are two photos of penguin as a chick ...

Penguin is the one with the big white face looking at the hen.



And here is a side view of Penguin as a chick (the B&W ball at the center top).



Here is Penguin today. She is a pullet, and is smaller than the rest of her hatchmates, with long legs.




And here is a detail shot of her rump and the coloration of her back feathers.




It has been fun to watch these chicks develop, though they were so independent I couldn't get close enough for many photos. I was lucky to catch Penguin the other day.