Preparing for winter.

Today my son his girlfriend and I did our best to separate the hens, who are muchley abused by all the roos, to the chicken pen (no roos allowed) cut wings so they don't fly over the gate and de-louse.
Move the ram lambs to the back field (in anticipation of breeding season) and moved the turkeys and ducks into the side field.   We were wet, muddy and stinky by the time we were done.

Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival

The majority of our lambs will go to butcher. This is a fact. We only sell or keep the best as breeding stock.  Last year we brought in a new ram lamb from the Lavender Fleece to try to improve the 
quality of our lambs. I think we are on the right path.
This year we showed some of those lambs at the OFFF.
Harley was Champion Ram!!!!
Merlot was Reserve Champion Ewe!!!
We also got the Blue ribbon in Best Flock!
Pictures to follow.

2011 Lambs.

This year we used our new ram Captain Kirk on all our stock. I am very pleased with the quality of our 2011 lambs.

Moving the girls to summer pasture.

Thursday we will start moving the girls and their lambs to our summer pasture on Sauvies Island.
We are moving them a little earlier than originally planned but with this very wet nasty weather our pastures are just too muddy to keep them here. I can't wait to see the on green grass!

Broiler chickens

I will be starting broiler chickens May 14th. I only raise small groups so you will need to get your deposits in early. Deposit cut off is May 10th. Our chickens are raised on pasture and you are always welcome to come see our set up. We take great pride in the way our birds are raised.
Broilers are $2.50 lb. Most will dress out at 4 to 5.5lbs. We prefer them to be picked up
fresh unfrozen the day they are processed but we can freeze a limited amount if you are unable to get here day of process. Deposit is $5.00 each. Please call and let me know how many you want and make deposit arrangements. I'm also taking orders for Thanksgiving turkeys. They are $3.00 lb. We raise Broad Breasted Bronze. Average size will be 20lbs. We are very limited on turkeys and only raise to order. We start our turkeys the middle of July so they are processed the week of Thanksgiving. Please get your $15.00 deposit in VERY early as we can only raise a small amount on our pasture.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Tamera
tlb796@msn.com

Lambing 2011

Just a few of our lambs. I will post them individually on the Icelandic lamb page.

Hatching!

I have 5 Khaki Campbell duck hens. I regularly get 4 eggs a day 7 days a week and they are always
sold out! So I traded one of my Muskovy hens for a KC drake a couple months ago.
The girls really wanted nothing to do with him at first but he hung in there and breeding commenced!
I put 12 eggs in the bator about 2 weeks after we brought him home. On day 7 I candeled and only kept 7
as the others appeared infertile. Well today we hatched 5 KC ducklings! Yeah! I am hoping for hens to
increase my egg production next spring. I think I will pull off 12 more next week!