Kookoolan Farm

About Kookoolan Farm

We are a small, diversified family farm located in the Carlton-Yamhill American Winegrowing Region in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range. Our maritime climate provides mild temperatures summer and winter, and plentiful rainfall for our mixed-grass pastures. We maintain an integrated diversity of livestock: Jersey cows, Nubian goats, chickens for both meat and eggs, and occasional batches of more exotic birds such as guinea fowl, turkeys, and quail, and composting red worms. Kookoolan Farms is the biggest small chicken producer in Oregon. We are one of only four farms in Oregon to have licensed, inspected poultry processing right on our farm. That means your farmers, Chrissie and Koorosh, have the young chicks under our control from day-old hatchlings to ready-to-cook. Chickens are raised indoors under heat lights for the first three to four weeks year-round; in summer they are finished on grass pasture, and in winter they are barn-raised in small groups, with alfalfa and lettuce added to their diet. We don't truck our chickens to slaughter. We hand-process and hand-pack our birds using the most gentle, most humane practices we can find, leaning heavily on Temple Grandin's work. Cows, goats and sheep are raised with 100% full-time access to grass pastures, and although the doors are always open, we don't force the animals out of the barn in inclement weather. Our dairy animals receive free-choice grass pasture, alfalfa hay, clover hay, and grass hay, plus a small amount of mixed grains as a treat during milking, plus a seaweed-based trace mineral supplement. Kookoolan also offers free range duck and duck eggs.