by OogieFarmBlog | Aug 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Becky & Harri with the rams.Today is chicken bath day. We are showing them on Tuesday at the Delta County Fair so they need to be bathed and cleaned now.Stephanie with one of the Gold Campines.Unhappy wet chickens. Desert Weyr Farm Blog
by OogieFarmBlog | Jun 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here are the future laying hens.Front row from left to right Welsummer (pink feet), Ancona (black and yellow), Gold Campine (blue feet), Russian Orloff (yellow feet) and a Silver Grey Dorking (pink feet with an extra toe).We’ll see if I am right when they...
by OogieFarmBlog | May 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
All the chicks arrived this morning. This batch is the 100 red broilers. We raise one batch a year. We keep half for us and sell the rest. We also got 25 pullets for egg laying. The egg breeds we are trying this year are Russian Orloff, Dorking, Ancona and Welsummer....
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well I decided on the chickens. One full box of 100 red broilers for meat. One quarter box of 25 pullets for eggs. 11 Gold Campines, 4 Spangled Russian Orloffs, 4 Silver Grey Dorkings, 3 Anconas and 3 Welsummers. I’ve requested them for the last week in May....
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Gardeners wait for the seed catalogs to come in the middle of the winter but for me the first sign of spring is the arrival of the chicken catalogs.Full of promise, breeds that are rare, common, colorful, plain the chicken catalogs hint at the summer to come. The...
