Feather Farm's Entles

07/22/2025

07/21/2025

Announcing our C litter. Jasmine and Sully had 7 gorgeous babies July 6. 4 boys 3 girls 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩷🩷🩷

https://www.gooddog.com/breeders/feather-farms-entles-oregon

07/08/2025

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Focus on the chicken — high contrast black & white close-up of face. 35mm lens, 4K HD, black shadow background, sharp profile, 4:3 ratio.

Rare Rooster Acres

06/29/2025

10 Seafoam Blue Pullets available
8-12 weeks
Will lay large green-blue shades 200+ eggs a year
35 ea
Corvallis Oregon

05/26/2025

Rescued these leghorn babies from an overcrowding situation at the feed store over a week ago....they were literally eating each other, covered in scabs and blood 😔😔😔 Free chicks are never free....medicine, care, high protein feed, vitamins to help with recovery and shock..... And the work of sorting 50+ chicks according to health level and treating 30+ chicks with bloody injuries.

They had their first day of free ranging today and decided to roost for the first time at 4 weeks old.

When chicks are overcrowded and too warm they become stressed and will start pecking each other to death as young as 3 weeks old. Hopefully they will all start healing up from their tail, neck and wing pecking injuries. The ones with more severe injuries are still in my heated brooder house for another couple of weeks.

A couple of the more cannibalistic chicks had to be culled because they were now only interested in eating their friends and over the course of 24hrs pecked my own babies bare back. Cannibalistic chicks will literally eat a fellow chick from its cloaca while it's still alive from the outside in. 😔😕😓

When raising chicks it's always important to remember that space is more important than heat once they reach 3 weeks of age. A brooder box or bin that can comfortably hold 10 chicks at hatch date cannot hold even half that many at age 3 weeks. When purchasing chicks it's hard to envision not having enough room for the tiny fluffy chicks, but chicks nearly double in size every single week until age 6 weeks. They. Need. Lots. Of. Space. They will also begin trying to roost at age 3-4 weeks, so trying to contain babies in an open top box past week 3 starts becoming problematic.

So when you get chicks this year think about where you will keep them once they turn 3 weeks old and don't be afraid to let them move into their grown up digs at age 5+ weeks.

Next on the agenda getting them moved into their bigger pen this week and out of my broody hen pen.

04/07/2025

I have some "Rare Ornamental Layer" pullets available

8 weekers

White egg layers

Fourty clucks each

Once grown, these birds make excellent free range/free foraging birds, as they are very resilient and always on the lookout for aerial predators.

Very good feed to egg ratio as they are on the lighter side of large fowl birds.

Org from McMurrays
Hatch date Feb 10

3 Golden Campines 150-200 medium white eggs
3 Lakenvelders 200+ medium white eggs
2 Egyptian Fayoumi 200+ small white eggs
2 Crevecoer 150+ white eggs

Corvallis Oregon

03/23/2025

Sometimes beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder....these babies are so lovely, I can't wait to see them lumbering about the yard. Polanco Indio Gigante have landed here.Thank you and shout out to Rare Rooster Acres for raising gorgeous Indios and sharing them with those of us that are just in love 💖

03/05/2025

So lovely when I get updates!!!

03/05/2025

Working on Next year's birds 😁

03/01/2025

It's been 8 weeks already !!!

Puppies are leaving this weekend. Brooklyn (Stella) is the first to go home with her family 🥰 Happy life in Idaho. Teresa Ysursa Valenti

02/23/2025

This!!!

02/22/2025

Hen Spotlight "Silverudds Blå"
My girls this year are on 🔥🔥
Almost all of my blue girls have complete lacing. This year my flock consists of 1 splash, 2 black and 6 blues.

These swedish birds are very hardy, moderately friendly and great production layers of green eggs. Because of their small frame they have a very good feed to egg ratio, but the roosters get to be a decent enough size to be a fryer bird. Their combs are straight but not overly large, this makes them less susceptible to frostbite and great in the summer. They need no supplemental heat in the winter, and are the first to return to laying after their molt.