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27 ❘ Klamath Life ❘ Close to Home
H&N photos by Samantha Tipler
Small-time eggs: The backyard flock Producing eggs also can be a backyard business. That’s literally the case for Pam Chamberlain-Barrows, who lives in the south suburbs of Klamath Falls and cares for about 40 chickens that produce about 35 eggs a day. She calls her place “Pam’s Urban Ranch” and sells eggs from her home. Chamberlain-Barrows’ flock started with 25 chicks she bought at Big R. The flock grew with her love for the birds. She keeps them in a warm hen house on the 1-acre property where she and her husband, Steve Barrows, live. Each spring and fall she cleans out and replaces wood shavings that help the birds keep warm during the winter. Because she has a small flock, Chamberlain-Barrows knows the different
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personalities of her birds. One black-and-white hen is a talker. “She comes around and rests next to me and she carries on,” ChamberlainBarrows said. “She does not want me to touch her, but she’s close enough to touch.” Diane Robson also runs a small egg business, Cackleberry Eggs, from her home in Chiloquin. She owns about 30 chickens that produce about 18 eggs a day. In the winter she will put a light in her hen house to keep them laying. She doesn’t run the light 24 hours a day as she tries to keep it as natural as possible, giving them about eight hours of darkness each night. Robson, too, sees different personali-
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ties in her chickens. “They have tons of personality,” she said. One, an older hen they call Mamma, is extremely social with people. “She comes up to you and looks you in the face like, ‘Hey! What have you got for me?’ ” Robson said.
Robson has taught other hens tricks. She’ll come out with a handful of grain and when she points, they will jump on her shoulders and arms looking for grain. “They’re just fun,” Robson said. “The happier they are, the more productive they are.” ◗ stipler@heraldandnews.com
Pam Chamberlain-Barrows holds a basket of eggs. She sells eggs out of her home in the south suburbs of Klamath Falls.
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