Oregon

[Urban Flock]

Hi, Merlin, we are in Medford. We have 9 happy and spoiled hens.

 

[Corona~Barb]

Been awhile since I've popped in, although I read all the posts here. Just too excited and needed to tell someone that I got an egg today!

I have only three EEs right now who are almost 4 yrs old and didn't think I'd see one for a few months still. Rosie has been squatting for me the last two days, so I was very hopeful. Can't wait to have it for breakfast tomorrow.

 

[Stephanie R]

Been awhile since I've popped in, although I read all the posts here. Just too excited and needed to tell someone that I got an egg today!

I have only three EEs right now who are almost 4 yrs old and didn't think I'd see one for a few months still. Rosie has been squatting for me the last two days, so I was very hopeful. Can't wait to have it for breakfast tomorrow.

Congrats. Your hens are 4 years or 4 months?

 

[Corona~Barb]

4 yrs and boy, was that egg good! Nice dark yolk.

 

[donrae]

Is anyone here planning on going to the Mother Earth News Fair in Albany? I'm seeing advertisements for it and it sounds exciting!

 

[BeaverQB]

I am! Never been before -- wanted to go last year, but missed it.

 

[BeaverQB]

Hello from a beautifully rainy Eugene today!

Looking to start my own small flock of girls in the next couple of months. Does anyone have suggestion on which breeds I should be looking at?

I'm looking to start off small (3 or 4 girls maybe a duck too) medium or large egg, no color preference, 5-7 eggs per week. Maybe some bug control too? I've done a ton of research and I'm going to lie, I want one of everything! Leaning towards Buff Orpingtons, Black/Red Sexlinks and Australorp's.

My coop and run are almost ready and could house up to 8 but for this year, I'd like to stay with just a few. I can always add a few more next spring.

Any suggestions/advice would be most appreciated! Thanks!!

Hi -- I'm just up the road near Junction City!

We just started keeping chickens last year, and we went to Wilco and bought whatever their little sheet said would be a good layer.

However, after doing research, we have fallen in love with heritage breeds, so if we could go back and do it again, we would not have bought the Sex Links. (FWIW, our Black Star is the flock leader, lays the best of any of our chickens, and has a great personality!)

We love our Orpingtons (we don't have Buff, we have Blue and Black) and our New Hampshire Reds.

Best of luck to you!

 

[Corona~Barb]

Already have our passes! We went last year and it was amazing. Should be 3 days as we could not see everything in 2. Don't miss it!

 

[donrae]

I'm glad to hear good feedback. I don't seem to get out much these days and I'm so excited, even though it's months away

 

[Farmer Viola]

Hi Oregonians, how are you all fairing in this muddy season? We are having our first rainy season at our new property and running into a LOT of mud in the coop and the free-range area! Our last property didn't have this issue, but now we know..

We have the opportunity to get a truckload of pine wood pole peelings, which are large wood chips shaved off trees to form telephone poles. They are untreated free scraps.

I'm curious if anyone has done this before, and what potential problems might come from using this as flooring in the coop and run area. Bad idea? Good idea?

Their coop is a big barn, and one corner stays dry but the other 75% is extremely muddy. My thought is that it would drain well, and build up the floor level higher in the wet areas. During the dry season we want to trench around the barn so it stays drier. But I want to find a way to get them up out of the mud now while it's the rainy season.

this is what the material looks like: